Weatherday: Death in the Maze

Dance festival in Montpelier, France (2005).

Mostly cloudy to start, with possible light rain showers. Afternoon will have sunny spells. 

It will be warm and humid with temperatures 15-18deg in light winds from the west. 

On this day in 1981, Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands died after 66 days of hunger strike in the Maze Prison. There would be nine more similar deaths in the following three months.

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