Founding of the People’s Republic of China

Saturday, October 1, 1949Tiananmen Square, Beijing, People's Republic of China

grey all morning63°F

Soft and still before dawn, the air near 56°F with cloud drifting in patches over the stars. Morning warmed steadily and the sky thinned out for a while, sun coming through toward midday. Then at 1pm the cloud shut over completely and stayed that way through the afternoon, the air near 70° under it. Barely a breath of wind all day. The lid broke apart again late in the evening and the sky cleared, mild and quiet.

Humidity
74%
Wind
5 mph
Daylight
11.8 hrs
Day's character
partly cloudy
High / Low
70° / 56°F
Felt like
70° / 56°F
Rain
0.00"
Snowfall
0.0"
Pressure
30.12 inHg
Gusting to
11 mph
Wind from
east
Sunrise / Sunset
6:10 am / 5:56 pm

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