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By Angie Phillips
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image captionA telescope is not needed to see the Lyrid meteor showing in the skies above Northern Ireland
Astronomers will well be aware that we are currently in the middle of a Lyrid meteor shower.
The Lyrids have been visible our sky since 13 April and peaked early on the morning of Thursday, with up to 20 meteors in an hour.
But you can still catch a glimpse of them in the night sky until 27 April and you do not need a telescope to see them.
Just head outside after dark and look up.
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By Angie Phillips
Published are getting way more snow than Northern Ireland.
Showers develop over the North Sea where the easterly wind has a longer sea track or length of fetch.
The showers develop as the cold air passes over a relatively milder sea.
But in NI, we have a shorter sea track across the Irish Sea so most of our snow showers have been towards counties Down and Armagh where that sea fetch from the east is the longest.
A weather warning is in place for these areas.
The North Channel is narrower still so there have been fewer, or no snow showers, in those parts of the east which border the channel.
By Guy Busby
DAPHNE – The COVID-19 vaccination program at the Daphne Civic Center has worked well so far, even with high turnout and heavy traffic, city officials said.
The clinic began Tuesday, Jan. 19, operating on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The clinic’s final day will be Thursday, Jan. 28. The clinic is giving Moderna vaccines to first responders and people 75 and older.
Alabama Department of Public Health, Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency and city of Daphne staff members are conducting the clinic.
Mayor Robin LeJeune praised the efforts by Daphne employees, including the staff of the Civic Center, Public Works, Police Department and Fire Department.
By Guy Busby
DAPHNE – Retired Mobile district chief LeAnn Tacon will become Daphne’s new fire chief Monday, following action by the City Council.
The council voted Monday, Jan. 4, to name Tacon as chief. Tacon accepted the offer later in the week and will start Thursday, Jan. 14.
She will become the fifth person to oversee the Daphne Fire Department in about a year. She replaces Melvin Brown, a former Birmingham battalion chief, who was hired in June and resigned in December. Brown was hired to replace James “Bo” White who retired at the end of December 2019 after 12 years as chief.