Weatherday: Up, up, and all the way around

Looking across to Russia from Finland (2016).

A sunny start will give way to a cloudier afternoon but it should remain dry.

Highest temperature of 10deg in moderate breezes from the southeast easing lighter.

On this day in 1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first aviators to circumnavigate the globe nonstop by balloon, as they floated past longitude 9°27′ W above Mauritania. They landed the following day in Egypt.

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