Brazil Beat Italy in the World Cup Final

Sunday, June 21, 1970Estadio Azteca, Mexico City

rain 10am–3pm66°F

Low cloud and damp from the small hours, the air near 58°F and not moving. The sky thinned for an hour around 9am. Then it shut again. Drizzle began mid-morning and turned to steady rain by noon, heaviest near 1pm, with the air near 66° and everything soaking under it. It eased off by mid-afternoon but the cloud never lifted. Evening came down grey and damp with a little more rain in it, the air sliding back toward where the day had started.

Rain
0.76"
Humidity
93%
Wind
6 mph
Daylight
13.3 hrs
High / Low
65° / 56°F
Felt like
68° / 56°F
Snowfall
0.0"
Pressure
30.03 inHg
Gusting to
15 mph
Wind from
northeast
Sunrise / Sunset
5:59 am / 7:16 pm
Day's character
rain

Pre-satellite record — solid, not exact. Checked against the Desviacion Alta Al Pedregal station, 2 mi away: it agrees.

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