Weatherday: Disaster enters, stage left

Barley and the Graperag in O'Connells (2019).

Cloudy with a few sunny spells in the morning. A chance of early showers, then more persistent rain settling in from mid-afternoon. Clearing after tea to a dry night.

Temperatures maxing at 16deg in moderate breezes from the southwest, veering westerly and easing to very light.

On this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre in London was destroyed when its thatch was set alight by a cannon fired to mark the entrance of the king onstage during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

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