Weatherday: An explosive patent

Your editor in Bangkok at the start of the Land Rover G4 Challenge which would take me through Thailand and Laos, to Brazil and up through the Bolivian Andes (2006).

Early fog will clear to a dry day with sunny spells. 

Feeling warm and humid in temperatures up to 17deg, with very light variable breezes. 

On this day in 1867, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel was awarded the first of three patents he would secure for his invention of dynamite.

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