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Now, on to the weather.

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It looks like good news for people who are in need of some

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dry weather this week, and this evening

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there's also a chance to see the Northern Lights, and to

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tell us more about this, I'm joined now by Alan O'Reilly

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from Carlo Weather. Good morning, Alan. Good

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morning, Colin. The forecast for the

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week ahead, dryer. So, I mean, we've heard

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how wet the months have been up till

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now. Good for farmers? Yes,

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they've had a good spell. It has

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helped improve ground conditions a lot. There's

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been a lot of crops, so thankfully,

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a lot of animals out, and

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even some silage being cut at the moment

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in the last day or two. So,

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certainly an improvement situation after a very,

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very difficult situation. All right. And what's

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the weather looking like into next week?

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It was due to be good up to the weekend,

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but has that been extended? No,

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not really, I'm afraid. So, it does look like

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you want to make the most of the sunshine

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today and tomorrow, and

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into Sunday as well, because low

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pressure system returned some

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heavy showers even by Sunday

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afternoon, possibly tundry, and

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then very unsettled for Monday, Tuesday,

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maybe Wednesday. It does look

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a little bit uncertain how long that low

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pressure will hang around next week. So,

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you know, it could stay maybe into Thursday,

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but I'm hopeful that things will start to

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pick up again towards the end of next week. And

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tell us about the Northern Lights, because it's not, I mean, the

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weather is nice, it is dry, but it's

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quite cloudy. Is that going to affect the ability to

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see the Northern Lights? Well,

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there's a lot of clear spells tonight,

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especially. Some areas tomorrow

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night, especially. Lastly, the East Am

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split. The solar activity has been

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a very very high level am

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not seen in many years. The

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number of Solar F players Comments

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offered: Sunspots: Very active sunspot activity

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on the song which creates these

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M C I mean that some

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of them come towards Arts and

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the ones that do then can

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create Northern Lights. It's a lot

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of different variables but it's been

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very intense so there was a

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good chance of seen some Norden.

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My activity. Tonight and tomorrow night

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especially am especially if you do manage to

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stay on of those two years guys you

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don't have fog. Chris Hogg could ruin it

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for a few areas posts am it is

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little bit later obviously sunset as later and

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some raise their years of the window is

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shorter put still. given the intensity of the

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yeah the solar activity it could be very

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good chance seeds northern Lights over added to

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write Better Chance seeing it out the country

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and from potentially high ground is it than

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the further north in the country go the

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better. Yeah away from

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lights and you need to let your eyes

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adjust or use your phone camera let it

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get get really set stables of if you

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have a tripod us the best way to

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do with profitably get some to let it

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get into long exposure more because very often

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over and you won't see it with the

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naked eye but you will be able to

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take photographs over which your smartphone another seat

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afford not to bear to chance and if

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you are in an area as fog and

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yeah getting up the mountain this is your

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best chance to be able to get above

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that fog. okay I'm already some kind. Of

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weather. Thanks very much for that. Would be back after this

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with the gathering. Five

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One Five. My. Neighbors

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as he Radio One.