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OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will prevail over the weekend, however, the weather pattern will become more active next week. Expect temperatures to be above normal through the first half of next week. A cold front is expected to drop temperatures at the end of next week.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [October 21, 2021]
The Pumpkinfest will be happening today in downtown Franklin and several streets are closed off. A map is posted on the Franklin Police Department Facebook Page, which has been embedded here.
Macon Media will be webcasting live from the Pumpkin Roll location on Phillips Street for those who either cannot attend or wish to maintain social distancing from around 10am until either my batteries run out or I (Bobby) get tired or taken out by a pumpkin. Video will also be available on the electronic sign in front of the town hall for those who wish to maintain social distancing.
• Live Webcast From the Pumpkin Roll in Franklin (Starts at 10am) [Macon Media]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Friday Night
Franklin area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph by noon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 46. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 74. Calm winds becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. South southeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Monday
A chance of showers before noon, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between noon and 3pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 71. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Monday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a chance of showers between 9pm and 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 47. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 63. North northwest wind 5 to 8 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 46. Light west southwest wind.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 65. Calm winds becoming south southwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 49. South southwest wind around 6 mph.
Monday
Showers likely before 1pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 4pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 63. Southwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Monday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 45. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Otto area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 70. North wind 3 to 5 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 46. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 73. Calm winds becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 51. South wind around 5 mph.
Monday
Showers likely before 1pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 3pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 70. Light south southwest wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Monday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 48. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Nantahala area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 67. Light northwest wind.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 47. Light and variable wind.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 71. Calm winds becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 52. South southeast wind around 6 mph.
Monday
Showers likely before noon, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between noon and 4pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 66. South southwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Monday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 47. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today. Some severe weather may be possible Monday.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sat Oct 23 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
[No forecast available today]
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 (3.3 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (3.1 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for October 22nd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 82°F in Franklin in 1978
Lowest Temperature 20°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1952
Greatest Rainfall 2.64 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1945
Geatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date)
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
• How the Supply Chain Broke, and Why It Won’t Be Fixed Anytime Soon [New York Times]
• Record high migrant detentions at US-Mexico border [BBC News]
Zoom settlement
In a class action privacy lawsuit against video teleconferencing company Zoom, a federal court in California preliminarily approved an $85 million settlement under which paid subscribers can receive 15% of what they paid to the company or $25, whichever is greater, and free users can submit claims for $15. Read the order at • title [COurthouse News Service (PDF)]
• Intel CEO believes the CPU and GPU shortage crisis will last into 2023 [TechRadar]
• Over 500,000 healthcare workers quit in August and thousands more have gone on strike as the industry deals with burnout and staff shortages [Business Insider]
• Virginia School Board Sues FOIA Recipients For Receiving FOIA'ed Documents It Handed To Them [TechDirt]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - October 22nd, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode October 22nd, 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 21, 2021]
• Year-long COVID-19 infection reveals within-host evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in a patient with B cell depletion [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier accompanied with basement membrane disruption without tight junctions alteration [Nature]
• Post COVID-19 in children, adolescents, and adults: results of a matched cohort study including more than 150,000 individuals with COVID-19 [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• COVID-19 Vaccination and Non–COVID-19 Mortality Risk — Seven Integrated Health Care Organizations, United States, December 14, 2020–July 31, 2021 [CDC (Academic Report)]
• Social distancing slows down steady dynamics in pedestrian flows [AIP: Physics of Fluids/a>]
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On This Day
October 23rd is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 71 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)
4004 BC – James Ussher's proposed creation date of the world according to the Bible.
42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six.
502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1086 – Spanish Reconquista: At the Battle of Sagrajas, the Almoravids defeats the Castilians, but are unable to take advantage of their victory.
1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends a civil war in Denmark.
1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
1641 – Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, so as to force concessions.
1642 – The Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the English Civil War.
1707 – The First Parliament of Great Britain convenes.
1739 – The War of Jenkins' Ear begins when Prime Minister Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1812 – A French general begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia.
1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Westport is the last significant engagement west of the Mississippi River.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe.
1911 – The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1927 – The Imatra Cinema was destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people died in the fire and almost 30 were injured.[3]
1940 – Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a USAAF bomber near Palm Springs, California.
1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
1955 – Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.
1955 – The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite with Germany instead of France.
1956 – Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the Hungarian Revolution.
1958 – Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued.
1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me.
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
1973 – Watergate scandal: President Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1982 – A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured.
1983 – Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1989 – The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.
1989 – An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314.
1991 – Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena.
1998 – Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum.
2002 – Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2007 – A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform.
2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2011 – The Libyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
2015 – The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.
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Published at 4:35am on Saturday, October 23, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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