Owlie, i think i know about as much as you about weather in Latvia.
i haven't checked Latvian weather maps, but i'm mostly guessing based on the weather maps which are shown on Finnish TV and newspapers. Juras-Erglis and Latvia are so much in the Sourh that only a thin slice of the Northernmost part can be seen in them.
here's the weather map which i found on the webpage of YLE (Finnish broadcasting company). it shows the forecast for today, composed by meteorologist Kerttu Kotakorpi from the Finnish Meteorological institute:
Estonia including Saunja is much more convienently located: it can be seen on these weather maps and thus one could/can see what kind of weather there is. often it is surprisingly similar as in Turku so on very many days it's enough for me to look of the window to see what the weather is like in Saunja.
the same applied to Nõva, the eagles' winter feeding place.
for Latvia i need to extrapolate outside the map and guess. from today's map i guess that the blue weatherfront -line extends over Latvia, and that the wind direction is probably from SW to NE. it's probable that it is partly cloudy in Latvia today with temperatures slightly over 20 degrees.
but i checked the Latvian weather here:
http://www.meteoprog.lv/en/maps/
and i saw that my guesses went quite wrong:
on the Latvian weather map there's rain-rain-rain almost all over Latvia for today! 
i guess that drying of the cable connections will take about the same time as it did the last time, i.e. a week or so. the drying process is not quick because the connection hasn't cut quickly either after the rain. it takes time before the water seeps in and so it will also take time before it oozes out.
-IF it is question of getting wet and dry! we don't know! i think your guesses are just as good as mine, just speculation. it's not even certainat all that Janis will find the reason for the fault when he goes there to ring the eaglets and takes a look at the wirings.
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