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OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will persist over the area through Wednesday, with temperatures gradually warming back above normal. Another cold front will cross the area Thursday into Friday, bringing our next chance for rain. Typical cool and dry fall weather will return for next weekend.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [October 18, 2021]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
Patchy frost before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds.
Thursday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after noon. Partly sunny, with highs near 70.
Thursday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Thursday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 1pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 60.
Thursday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers before 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Otto area
Today
Patchy frost in the morning. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 45. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds.
Thursday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after noon. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.
Thursday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers before 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
Nantahala area
Today
Patchy frost in the morning. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds.
Thursday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Thursday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT TUE Oct 19 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 extreme upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the extreme 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 (3.7 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (3.6 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for October 19th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1984
Lowest Temperature 21°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1948
Greatest Rainfall 3.20 inches in Highlands in 1916
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
Level1 News October 19 2021: Good Privacy Makes Good Neighbors
• Amid efforts to revive diplomacy, North Korea fires ballistic missile into sea [Times of Israel]
What is causing a global goods shortage? | Inside Story
The REAL reason the US supply chain is backed up
• College towns plan to challenge results of 2020 census [ABC News]
Donald Trump deposed in lawsuit over alleged assault of protesters
• Right to scrape data from public websites debated at Ninth Circuit [Courthouse News Service]
A citizen journalist reports on the La Palma Volcano
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - October 18th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode October 18th, 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 18, 2021]
Dr. Agus breaks down the lastest on COVID-19 and vaccine boosters
• Death threats, trolling common for scientists who speak to media about COVID [Phys.org]
Parents Protest California COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Kids
• The coronavirus is still mutating. But will that matter? ‘We need to keep the respect for this virus.’ [Washington Post]
• Covid has killed more active-duty police officers than 9/11 did [Washington Post]
• A monoclonal antibody that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 variants, SARS-CoV, and other sarbecoviruses [BioRxiv (PDF)]
• Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections in Health Care Workers Identified Through Routine Universal Surveillance Testing [Annals of Internal Medicine]
• World’s First COVID-19 Pill ready to treat, As Merck Seeks Emergency Approval [One Pexel]
• COVID-19 is associated with higher risk of venous thrombosis, but not arterial thrombosis, compared with influenza: Insights from a large US cohort [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• NHL suspends Evander Kane for using fake vaccination card [WFLA-TV]
• Washington State Fires Football Coach Over Refusal to Get Covid Shot [New York Times]
• So far, COVID-19 spikes from college football games haven’t materialized [Univerrsity of Florida News]
• 94 unvaccinated staff at Yale New Haven Health lose their jobs [New Haven Register]
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On This Day
October 19th is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 73 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)
202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1216 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
1386 – The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1453 – Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France.
1466 – The Thirteen Years' War between Poland and the Teutonic Order ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.
1579 – James VI of Scotland is celebrated as an adult ruler by a festival in Edinburgh.
1596 – The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities
1649 – New Ross town in Ireland surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
1789 – John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1805 – War of the Third Coalition: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm.
1812 – The French invasion of Russia fails when Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
1813 – War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon is forced to retreat from Germany after the Battle of Leipzig.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
1864 – American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.
1866 – In accordance with the Treaty of Vienna, Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.
1900 – Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 – First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1921 – The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
1922 – British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.
1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
1944 – A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
1950 – China defeats the Tibetan Army at Chambo.
1950 – Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea.
1950 – Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
1955 – The General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union approves the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.
1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
1960 – The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
1973 – President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
1984 – A Roman Catholic priest, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is killed by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
1986 – The president of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, along with 33 others, die when their aircraft crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
1988 – The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
2001 – SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2004 – Thirteen people are killed when Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Adair County, Missouri, whilst on approach to Kirksville Regional Airport.
2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
2012 – A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.
2013 – At least 105 people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.
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Published at 4:10am on Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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