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Moreover, the air temperature in the subject area affects the blasting performance. The most ideal temperature for blasting in clays is between 15 and 25 \u00b0C because then the clay has the best geotechnical characteristics. The research was conducted on the exploitation field Cukavec II, which is located near the city of Vara\u017edin in the Republic of Croatia. Amount of precipitation and air temperature were considered to obtain the best blasting effect. Influence of meteorological parameters on the amount of the explosive charge and stemming length when blasting in clays was demonstrated via models based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The ANN model network consists of a Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) part to process time dependent meteorological data, and fully connected layers to process blasting input data. 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