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OUTLOOK
Canadian high pressure will continue across the region through Wednesday. Another front will then lift across our area from the southwest on Thursday and bring widespread rainfall to the region for Thursday and Friday. Drying high pressure will eventually build back across the Southeast on Sunday.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [October 21, 2021]
Monoclonal Antibodies Treatment Presentation by Dr Dewhurst
• Macon Middle School will be having a Virtual Day on MOnday, November 1, 2021
• 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 Friday Night
Franklin area
Today
Patchy frost before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-40s. Calm winds.
Thursday
Showers, mainly after 11am. Highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers. Low around 47. Light east southeast wind. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
Showers. Highs in the mid-50s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Friday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph becoming calm by midmorning.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
Thursday
Showers, mainly after 11am. Highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers. Low in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
Showers. Highs in the mid-40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Friday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Chance of rain is 60%.
Otto area
Today
Patchy frost before midmorning. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Thursday
Showers, mainly after 11am. Highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers. Lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. WInds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
Showers. Highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Friday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Nantahala area
Today
Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the upper 40s. Calm winds early in the evening out of the southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
Thursday
Showers, mainly after 11am. Highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Friday
Showers. Highs near 50. Chance of rain is 80%.
Friday Night
Showers. Lows in the mid-40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Areas of frost is possible this morning, especially in sheltered valleys.
A large low pressure system will bring widespread rainfall to the area Thursday through Saturday. Localized flooding may be possible.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Wed Oct 27 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A deep, non-tropical low pressure system with storm-force winds is located less than 100 miles east-southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The extratropical low is expected to meander off of the mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. coasts today, bringing rain and wind impacts to portions of those areas. Thereafter, the low is expected to move eastward away from the United States, and it could acquire some subtropical characteristics while it moves eastward or southeastward over the warmer waters of the central Atlantic through this weekend. For more information on this system, including storm warnings, see products issued by your local National Weather Service office and High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 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.)
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (2.8 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for October 27th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 81°F in Franklin in 1978
Lowest Temperature 16°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1962
Greatest Rainfall 2.60 inches in Highlands in 1920
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
Level1 News October 27 2021: What Happens In The Tesla Tunnel...
• Senators put YouTube, TikTok, Snap on defensive on kids’ use [AP News]
• Half its original size, Biden’s big plan in race to finish [Courthouse News Service]
• Supreme Court Petitions: Texting in the car, surveillance of a home, and Section 1983 for Miranda [SCOTUSblog]
• Florida federal judge says Trump's former status as a US President doesn't exempt him from Twitter's terms of service [Yahoo! News]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - October 26th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode October 26th, 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]
• The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency [Nature]
• Identification of driver genes for critical forms of COVID-19 in a deeply phenotyped young patient cohort [Science Translational Medicine]
• Ivermectin for COVID-19: addressing potential bias and medical fraud [Research Square (PDF)]
• Epidemiological, virological and serological investigation into a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (Alpha variant) in a primary school in Geneva, Switzerland: a prospective longitudinal study [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• COVCOG 1: Factors predicting Cognitive Symptoms in Long COVID. A First Publication from the COVID and Cognition Study. [MedRxiv (PDF)]
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On This Day
October 27th is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 65 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)
312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
939 – Æthelstan, the first king of all England, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
1682 – Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1775 – King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
1907 – Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
1914 – World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
1916 – Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
1962 – By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
1962 – An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
1988 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
1997 – The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
2017 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
2018 – A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring six, including four police officers.
2018 – Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England.
2019 – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.
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Published at 4:20am on Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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