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OUTLOOK
Dry and warm high pressure will remain in place through late this week. A moist cold front is expected to reach the North Carolina mountains by Saturday night, reintroducing rainfall chances to the forecast. Expect temperatures behind this cold front to be closer to seasonal normals, perhaps even a tad lower.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [October 15, 2021]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the northwest early increasing and shifting to come out of the northwest around 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Patchy frost after 3am. Otherwise, clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Light winds out of the north.
Monday
Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 70. Light winds out of the northwest.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Areas of frost after 2am. Otherwise, clear, with lows in the low-to-mid-30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Areas of frost before midmorning. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the west in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the north.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Otto area
Today
Patchy frost between 7am and 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Patchy frost between 3am and 5am. Otherwise, clear, with lows ranging from the lower to the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Monday
Patchy frost before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s.
Nantahala area
Today
Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Patchy frost after 5am. Otherwise, clear, with lows ranging from the lower to the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Monday
Patchy frost before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Calm winds becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows around 40. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Tuesday Night
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Clear skies and light winds will allow temperatures to fall into the low to mid 30s early Monday morning. These conditions will lead to frost development in parts of the North Carolina mountains.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sun Oct 17 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
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Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the middle-to-upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle-to-upper range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (4.8 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (4.0 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for October 17th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 81°F in Franklin in 1953
Lowest Temperature 20°F in Highlands in 1978
Greatest Rainfall 7.50 inches in Highlands in 1879
Record Weather Events for October (1872-2017)
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on Oct 5, 1954
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Highlands on Oct 30, 1910
Greatest Rainfall 9.91 inches in Highlands on Oct 4, 1964
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inches in Highlands on October 20, 1913
Record Weather Events for October 6th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 102°F in Albemarle, Stanly County in 1954
Lowest Temperature 22°F in Celo, Yancey County in 1968
Greatest Rainfall 14.00 inches in Aberdeen, Moore County in 1913
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inches on Montreat, Yancey County in 1932
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane 5 of 1913. The storm formed off the coast of Rhode Island and traveled southwest, striking North and South Carolina. This was before Tropical Storms and Hurricanes were named).
Record Weather Events for October in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 102°F in Albemarle, Stanly County on 10-06-1954
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 10-21-1952
Greatest Rainfall 14.00 inches in Aberdeen, Moore County on 10-06-1913
Greatest Snowfall 11.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 10-25-1990
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
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 and World News Roundup
• Biden: 'Democracy survived' Capitol riot because of police [ABC News]
• On solving the worldwide shipping crisis [Doc Searls Weblog]
• Ships Waiting to Unload [Maps Mania/a>]
After Terrible Earthquake (Oct 17) ‘Tsunami of lava’ La Palma Volcano Almost engulfs village
• La Palma volcano eruption update: eruption continues at high intensity, threatening La Laguna and airport operations [Volcano Discovery]
• China tested new space capability with hypersonic missile [Al Jazeera]
• Haiti: US missionaries reportedly kidnapped in Port-au-Prince [BBC News]
PBS NewsHour Full Episode October 16th, 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: [October 15, 2021]
• How the world learns to live with covid-19 [The Economist]
TWiV 818: Thor's hammer
The TWiVers review phase 3 efficacy and safety results for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, effects on the neonatal immune system caused by maternal infection with SARS-CoV-2, and NHC, the metabolite of molnupiravir, causes mutations in cellular DNA.
Show notes at [Microbe TV]
• How many lives have coronavirus vaccines saved? We used state data on deaths and vaccination rates to find out [The Conversation]
• Chicago City Hall wins restraining order against police union boss in battle over vaccine mandate [Courthouse News Service]
• Trying to Block SARS-CoV-2 Transmission With Intranasal Vaccines [JAMA Network]
• In New Hampshire, vaccine fights and misinformation roil GOP [Yahoo! News via AP]
• Transmission, viral kinetics and clinical characteristics of the emergent SARS-CoV-2 Delta VOC in Guangzhou, China [The Lancet]
• Vaccine mandates stoked fears of labor shortages. But hospitals say they’re working. [Washington Post]
• COVID-19 was cause of death for 2 of every 3 NC law enforcement officers in last 2 years [WRAL-TV]
• Wearing A Mask And Getting Vaccinated Helps Reduce COVID Case Rates Among School-Aged Kids [CPR News]
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On This Day
October 17th is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 75 days remain until the end 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)
690 – Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.
1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1346 – The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
1448 – An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
1456 – The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
1534 – Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
1604 – Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
1660 – The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
1713 – Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne.
1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
1817 – The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.
1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
1861 – Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
1907 – Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
1912 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1940 – The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
1941 – World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
1943 – The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
1943 – Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
1945 – A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
1952 – Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.
1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
1961 – Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
1965 – The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
1966 – The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
1969 – The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
1970 – FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
1973 – OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
1977 – The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
1979 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education.
1980 – As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
1988 – Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.
1989 – The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
1991 – 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.
1992 – Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
2000 – The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
2003 – Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest high-rise.
2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.
2018 – The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
2018 – Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
2019 – Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.
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Published at 4:00am on Sunday, October 17, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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