--- title: Star Wars Puns Dominate Weather Report description: Channel 5 weather report is full of Star Wars puns ahead of Star Wars The Force Awakens opening in theaters. canonical: https://time.com/4153245/star-wars-weather-report/ author: Olivia B. 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An example of the kinds of references she made in the approximately 40-second-long clip: “If you’re forced to awaken early tomorrow morning, we’ll be on the dark side.” It is not the first theatrical weather report that Welby has delivered. 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