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OUTLOOK
A weak back door cold front will cross our area from the north by early tonight then move south of the area Thursday through Friday. Temperatures will remain above normal through the weekend. Another cold front is forecast to approach from the northwest early next week, with better moisture possible. An unsettled weather pattern could prevail through much of next week.
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Local News
Local numbers for September 29th not released by health department.
MACON COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE
Suspect Tristan Justice Davis is currently in custody of MCSO.
Yesterday’s chase and manhunt ended early this morning with suspect Tristan Justice Davis in the custody of Macon County deputies. Following yesterday’s chase and manhunt, detectives monitored our CrimeStoppers Hotline and received multiple tips on the new Sheriff’s Office App throughout the night and followed up on any and all leads received. Early this morning detectives went to a location where they had information that suspect Davis may be at a particular residence. Detectives went to the residence and an individual at the residence informed them that suspect Davis was inside his residence. Deputies immediately entered the home and were able to take Tristan Justice Davis into custody without incident. Davis was immediately transported to the Macon County Detention Center. Davis was complaining of injuries he had received and was transported to the hospital to be evaluated. Once he is checked by medical staff and declared fit for confinement he will be brought back to the Macon County Detention Center and be formally charged with multiple offenses.
At this time detectives are initiating the next step into their investigation. We will now begin following up with Information as to who has played a role in assisting the suspect while he was on the run from “Justice”. Detectives have seized his cell phone and will obtain search warrant for his fb account and other accounts he had access to. We know Tristan Justice Davis was enjoying spending time on Facebook last night while on the run so we are confident our investigation will lead us to additional suspects.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the MCSO.
• Towns County mourns the loss of Emmanuel "Manny" Carrion, a friend to all. [Towns Observer]
Macon Board of Education - Sept 2021 (Corrected Version)
Macon County Participates in Oral Rabies Vaccination Program [MaconMedia.com]
Pisgah Legal recommends the NC Medicaid Ombudsman for Medicaid beneficiaries who need education, guidance and advocacy [MaconMedia.com]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Saturday Night
Franklin area
Today
Areas of fog before 11am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 2pm and 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A slight chance of showers in the midafternoon, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 4am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Friday
A slight chance of thunderstorms, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 54. Calm winds.
Saturday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Chance of rain is 30%.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
Otto area
Today
Areas of fog before 11am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Friday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 1pm and 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Nantahala area
Today
Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Calm winds.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A slight chance of showers between 11am and 1pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Chance of rain is 20%.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Patchy dense fog, primarily in the vicinity of river valleys and area lakes, will locally reduce visibility to one-quarter mile or less this morning and tonight.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Thu Sep 30 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Sam, located a few hundred miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands, and on Tropical Storm Victor, located over the eastern tropical Atlantic.
1. Shower activity associated with a trough of low pressure located over the tropical Atlantic about midway between the Cabo Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles has become limited. Environmental conditions are forecast to become less conducive over the next few days, and significant development of this system is no longer anticipated. The disturbance is forecast to move westward at 10 to 15 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent.
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Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the lower range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the lower range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (6.0 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (5.5 out of 12).
Weather Almanac for September 29th (1872-2020)
Record weather events for this date in Macon County (1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 88°F in Nantahala in 1971
Lowest Temperature 30°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1962
Greatest Rainfall 11.87 inches in Highlands in 1964
Record Weather Events for September (1872-2017)
Highest Temperature 98°F in Franklin on Sept 4, 1975
Lowest Temperature 27°F in Franklin on Sept 30, 1967
Greatest Rainfall 11.87 inches in Highlands on Sept 29, 1964
(this was the first day of heavy rains that would result in the Flood of 1964. More on this event is in the Almanac article for today).
Record Weather Events for September (1872-2017)
Highest Temperature 98°F in Franklin on Sept 4, 1975
Lowest Temperature 27°F in Franklin on Sept 30, 1967
Greatest Rainfall 11.87 inches in Highlands on Sept 29, 1964
Record weather events for this date and month in Macon County
Record Weather Events for Sept 1st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 105°F in Goldsboro, Wayne County in 1932
Lowest Temperature 33°F in Boone, Watauga County in 1946
Greatest Rainfall 8.98 inches in Andrews, Cherokee County in 1982
Record Weather Events for September in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 109°F in Weldon, Halifax County on 09-07-1954
Lowest Temperature 23°F in Marion, McDowell County on 09-28-2000
Greatest Rainfall 18.30 inches in Southport, Brunswick County on 09-16-1999
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
IMAGE RED SAND PROJECT
Zonta Club of the Franklin Area Red Sand Project
The Red Sand Project will be held in front of the Macon County Courthouse in downtown Franklin on Saturday October 2 at 9 a.m. Social distancing will be practiced and masks are advised.
Come and help to draw attention to those who metaphorically “fall through the cracks” and become victims of human trafficking. Women and children are more likely to be victims; unfortunately trafficking often goes unrecognized and is far more prevalent here than most people realize. Zonta will highlight how it affects our community and our country and introduce some of the organizations here that combat it. Participants will be given red sand that they will use to fill the cracks in the sidewalk, to draw attention to those who cannot advocate for themselves.
FROG FAIR
November 6, 2021
Friends of the Greenway Fall Fundraising Event. FROG FAIR will be held November 6 from 9-3 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main at the Town bridge. Vendor spaces are available--check our website for registration forms or stop by FROG Quarters. Make sure to mark your calendar--arts & crafts, food, & music will make it a special day. For more information, email frog28734@gmail.com.
Encastic Painting Classes
The Macon County Art Association (a not for profit member organization) is offering classes in encastic painting on Specified Fridays from 10AM-12PM at the Uptown Gallery 30 E Main St Franklin NC. Specific class dates are Friday July 9 and 23, August 3 and 27, September 3 and 17, October 29.
For more information contact the instructor, Karen Smith, at karen@programservices.org
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National News Roundup
• Taliban disperse women protesters with gunfire in Kabul [Yahoo! News]
• Phone calls disrupted by ongoing DDoS cyber attack on VOIP.ms [ars Technica]
Bandwidth.com And The Ongoing DDoS Attacks Against VoIP Providers
See more about what DDoS Attacks are at [VoiP DDoS Mitigation Explained With Ray Orsini from OITVoiP]
• Congress moves to avert partial government shutdown [Courthouse News Service]
House votes to suspend debt ceiling through 2022 as Congress works to avert government shutdown
• House appears poised to pull infrastructure vote amid stubborn stalemate [The Hill]
• USPS to implement slower delivery for mail, small packages amid regulator’s concerns [Federal News Network]
• Ben Rubin explains why the Web3 era of social media will help everybody get paid [TechCrunch]
• Panel Subpoenas 11 in Capitol Riot Inquiry, Eyeing Jan. 6 Rally Planners [New York Times]
Retailers complain of product shortages nationwide | WNT
PBS NewsHour full episode, September 29th, 2021
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Since it looks like we may be in for a new wave of infections, here is a section on COVID-19. It will include local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [September 24, 2021]
• YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content [MSN News/Washington Post]
Why It’s Impossible To Put Tracking Microchips In Covid Vaccines
• Covid and Mars [The Space Review]
• United Airlines Prepares to Fire Employees Who Refuse Covid-19 Vaccinations [Wall Street Journal]
• New tool predicts changes that may make COVID variants more infectious [ScienceDaily]
• Pseudoephedrine and its derivatives antagonize wild and mutated severe acute respiratory syndrome‐CoV‐2 viruses through blocking virus invasion and antiinflammatory effect [Wiley Online Library: Phytotherapy Research]
COVID-19 Q and A with A and V Livestream 9/29/21
• Incidence, co-occurrence, and evolution of long-COVID features: A 6-month retrospective cohort study of 273,618 survivors of COVID-19 [Public Library of Science: Medicine]
• A farewell to R: time-series models for tracking and forecasting epidemics [Journal of the Royal Society Interface]
Vaccine Efficacy Versus Delta Variant: Real World Data (COVID 19 Update 129)
• Correlates of protection against symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection [Nature]
• Persistence of robust humoral immune response in COVID-19 convalescent individuals over 12 months after infection [MedRxiv (PDF)]
Virology Live: What is a Virus?
• REGEN-COV Antibody Combination and Outcomes in Outpatients with Covid-19 [New England Journal of Medicine]
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On This Day
September 30th is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 92 days remain until the end of the year.
It is the last day of the third quarter and the midway point of the second half of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
489 – The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.
737 – The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.
1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1551 – A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.
1791 – The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
1791 – France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly.
1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1906 – The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
1907 – The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1909 – The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
1915 – World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 – World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
1941 – World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
1943 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
1944 – The Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.
1947 – The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
1947 – Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
1966 – Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1975 – Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.
1978 – Finnair Flight 405 aircraft was hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1993 – The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
2000 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
2005 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.
2009 – The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
2016 – Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
2016 – Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.
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Published at 4:40am on Thursday, September 30, 2021
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