Today is April 27, the weather is +17°C. Rain, light wind, northwest 3.3 m/s. Atmospheric pressure 747 mm Hg. Art. Relative humidity 74%.
Tomorrow night the air temperature will drop to +10°C, the wind will change to the north at 1.6 m/s. The pressure will increase and amount to 753 mm Hg. Art. The temperature during the day will not rise above +16°C, and at night on April 29 it will not drop below +8°C. The wind will be north at 1.8 m/s.
Sunrise: 04:59 Sunset: 19:55 Day length: 14 hours 56 minutes
Warmest April 10.9 (2000). The coldest April is -1.2 (1929).
Today the name day is celebrated
Men
Azat according to the Arabic version from the Middle Persian (Pahlavi) Yazata (Azat) – “free”, “independent” from the Armenian azat – “landowner”
Alexander from the ancient Greek name Alexandros: alex – “to protect” and andros – “man”, “person”
Anton from the Roman family name Antonius, derived from the ancient Greek antao – “to meet, collide”, “to engage in battle”, “to compete” or anthos – “flower”
Valentine from the Roman family name Valentinus, derived from another family name – Valens – “strong, robust, healthy”
Ivan from the Hebrew name Yochanan – “Yahweh is merciful” from the Hebrew name John – “merciful of God”
Martin from the Roman family name Martinus – “dedicated to Mars”, “belonging to Mars” (the Roman god of war)
Ostap folk form of the Greek name Eustathius – “solid, unchanging, persistent”, “solid-standing” from the Greek name Eustachius – “blooming”, “fertile”, “lushly eared”
Ian Polish, Belarusian and Old Russian forms of the Hebrew name Yochanan – “Yahweh is merciful”
Holidays today
International Veterinarian Day
Birthday of “diapers”
Martyn Lisogon
Shift worker day
Lazarev Saturday.
Events and memorable dates:
1289 – Mamluk Sultan Qalaun captures Tripoli. The end of the County of Tripoli, the state of the Crusaders,
1509 – Pope Julius II excommunicated Venice,
1521 – in the Philippines, natives killed the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan,
1578 – “Duel of the Minions” in Paris,
1636 – the city of Tambov was founded on the high bank of the Tsna River,
1644 – Wheat was planted for the first time in Canada,
1667 – the long-blind English poet John Milton sold for 10 pounds the rights to the poem “Paradise Lost,” which he wrote that year and became the best in his work,
1702 – Peter I issued a manifesto on the importation of foreigners into Russia with the promise of freedom of religion. Ship and gunsmiths, construction and military engineers began to arrive from Europe,
1749 – The first official performance of Handel’s music during the Royal Fireworks is interrupted due to a fire.
