Weatherday: A city destroyed

Harry Heron takes flight (2022).

A bright start will give way to a mix of cloud and sun, hazy at times. 

Temperatures up to 17deg locally in light southerly breezes that will increase to moderate for the afternoon. 

On this day in 1902, the volcano Mt Pelée on Martinique in the Caribbean erupted and wiped out the city of Saint-Pierre, leaving only two survivors from its population of some 30,000.

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