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OUTLOOK
A cold front will approach the Western Carolinas from the west today. This front is expected to move through our area this afternoon and evening and could produce some strong and possibly even severe thunderstorms. Another cold front will cross our region from the west on Thursday and bring widespread rainfall with light precipitation lingering into Saturday.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [October 21, 2021]
• Today (Monday, October 25th) is a remote learning day for all public schools except for Highlands School. • Beth Martin won the 2021 Pumpkin Roll with a roll length of 1,011 feet. [Facebook] [Macon Media Webcast] • Construction Has Begun on the South Macon Backbone! [Little T BroadbandE]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Wednesday Night
Franklin area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Highs near 70. Calm winds cin the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Rain likely before 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 3pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Patchy fog after 4pm. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s.
Otto area
Today
A chance of showers before 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 3pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds early increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 64. Winds out of the northwest around 10 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers, mainly after 2pm. Highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest around 10 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Chance of rain is 60%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Numerous showers and thunderstorms will cross the region this afternoon and evening ahead of a strong cold front. Some of these thunderstorms may become severe, with damaging wind gusts the primary threat. Isolated large hail, and a brief tornado, cannot be ruled out. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. Please relay any information about observed severe weather to the NWS while following all local, state, and CDC guidelines.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Oct 25 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A non-tropical low pressure system is expected to form off the east coast of the United States during the next day or so. The frontal low will move generally north-northeastward through the middle of the week, and the system will likely bring rain and wind impacts to portions of the mid-Atlantic and northeast U.S. coast. By the end of the week, the low could acquire some tropical or subtropical characteristics while it moves eastward away from the northeast U.S. coast. For more information on this system, including storm watches and warnings, see products issued by your local National Weather Service office and High Seas Forecasts issued by the Ocean Prediction Center.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent.
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Almanac
Air Quality
[No forecast available today]
Air quality is in the lower range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the lower range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
2.23.3 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (3.7 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for October 25th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 81°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2016
Lowest Temperature 20°F in Highlands in 1917
Greatest Rainfall 3.30 inches in Highlands in 1913
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snow has fallen on this date since 1872)
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 China’s past shapes Xi's thinking - and his view of the world [BBC News]
• Biden, Manchin and Schumer huddle, but still no budget deal [Courthouse News Service]
• Facebook whistleblower documents offer new revelations about Jan. 6 response [ABC News]
• Ex-Saudi official claims crown prince said he could get "poison ring from Russia" to kill king [Yahoo! News]
• Container ship fire off British Columbia smoldering, no longer spreading [Reuters]
• Exclusive Eyewitness Recounts Shooting on Alec Baldwin Movie Set: One bullet ripped through both victims [ShowBiz 411]
• The truth in the 2020 election has become a matter of political belief [Courthouse News Service]
SpaceX Starship Damaged in Static Fire, Catch Arms are ON, SLS Complete, Soyuz Progress, NASA Crew-3
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - October 25th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode October 25th, 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]
• COVID-19 in NC: Percent positive dips to the lowest point in 3 months; NC finally breaks pattern in deaths [WNCN-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
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Declining vaccine efficacy
• SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England Technical Briefing26 [UK Government Publishing Service]
Mixing Vaccine Boosters For COVID 19 (MedCram Update 131)
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Takes Additional Actions on the Use of a Booster Dose for COVID-19 Vaccines [FDA]
• Long-Term Elevated Inflammatory Protein Levels in Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infected Individuals [Frontiers in Immunology]
• A review: Antibody-dependent enhancement in COVID-19: The not so friendly side of antibodies [SAGE Journals]
• Business Restrictions and COVID-19 Fatalities [OXFORD Academic]
• Assessment of Cognitive Function in Patients After COVID-19 Infection [JAMA Network]
• Cardiac Fibrosis Is a Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19 [Frontiers in Immunology]
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On This Day
October 25th is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 67 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)
285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.
1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer Lisbon.
1415 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.
1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
1854 – The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.
1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1911 – The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Feng-shan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.
1917 – Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
1924 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1944 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
1944 – World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
1944 – World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1945 – Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
1949 – The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
1971 – The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
1973 – Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, becoming one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
2009 – The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.
2010 – Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people.
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Published at 4:30am on Monday, October 25, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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