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OUTLOOK
A deep low pressure system will cross the area today. As this low pressure moves away to the east through the latter half of the weekend, drying high pressure will spread back over the region by Sunday. Quiet weather will then be in store for the region through early next week. More active weather may return to the area middle to late next week.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [October 21, 2021]
Monica Collier receives national recognition through the NYC Big Book Award®! Franklin, NC -- The NYC Big Book Award recognized PINK: A Christmas Romance, released October 5, 2021, in the category of Christian Fiction as the winner. The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters. Selected award Winners and Distinguished Favorites are based on overall excellence. Read the full press release at [Macon Media/a>]
You can find the book at your favorite local bookstore or on [Amazon]
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 Saturday Night
Franklin area
Today
Showers likely, mainly after noon. Patchy fog between 7am and 2pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 50 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog before 2am, then patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the north.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly after 9am. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before 5am. Patchy fog before 2am, then patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. WInds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Otto area
Today
Showers likely, mainly after noon. Patchy fog before 2pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 50 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog before 2am, then patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. WInds out of the northwest around 5 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers likely, mainly after 9am. Patchy fog before 4pm, then patchy fog after 5pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs near 50. 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 possible.
Tonight
Showers likely, mainly before midnight. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers before 9am. Mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm ibefore midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 62.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 42.
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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 Sat Oct 30 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Showers continue to show some signs of organization near a strong, frontal low pressure system located several hundred miles south of Cape Race, Newfoundland. The nontropical low is likely to lose its associated fronts while it moves southeastward toward slightly warmer waters during the next day or two, and it could make a transition to a subtropical storm this weekend or early next week over the central Atlantic. The system is expected to turn northward back toward colder waters by the middle of next week. For more information on this system, including gale warnings, see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...50 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
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 (0.6 out of 12) today with Ragweed and, Chenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.5 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for October 30th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 82°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2016
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Highlands in 1910
Greatest Rainfall 3.54 inches in Highlands in 1918
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.
Mitchell Mozeley Memorial March
We have planned a Mitchell Mozeley Memorial March for Saturday, November 6th at 7pm in Franklin, NC, starting at the Macon County Courthouse, proceeding to the Old Jail where Mr. Mozeley was momentarily detained, only to be taken by a mob. From there we will retrace Mozeley’s fateful route, down the “town hill” and to the town bridge which traverses the Little Tennessee River where Mr. Mozeley was executed by the mob, rope around his neck while on horseback, with the horse then removed.
We are working on contextualizing the Mozeley lynching into the broader picture of what was happening in NC in 1898. The short version is the "fusion" government of Republican and Populist parties which was nominally progressive on matters relating to race took power in 1896. The successful 1898 election was brilliantly and cruelly engineered by the Democratic Party to reverse that fortune. The murderous coup in Wilmington after the election was almost a celebratory coda to the 1898 campaign. And then in 1900, the nominally progressive governor was ousted and North Carolina became the second state, following Louisiana, to pass a voter suppression amendment (literacy tests with grandfather clauses) to its constitution.
In short, there was a full-on voter suppression campaign in North Carolina in 1898. That campaign was successful and was punctuated by acts of terror carried out by the Ku Klux Klan and the even more militant “Red Shirts.” We believe, though cannot prove, that Mozeley’s execution was an act of voter suppression, an act of political terrorism, coming a mere 48 hours before the ballots were to be cast in North Carolina.
For more information on the lynching, see https://ncgenweb.us/macon/strange-fruit/
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 29 2021: Doggies Ditch Drones
• Biden Eases Fray with France and Savors Meeting with Pope as Europe Trip Begins [New York Times]
• High court refuses to block Maine vaccine mandate for health workers [Courthouse News Service]
• https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-59098425 [BBC News]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - October 29th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode October 29th, 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]
Dr John Campbell: nternational ongoing situation
• COVID vaccines effective but household transmission of delta a risk for 1 in 4 [IMperial College of London]
• Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Among Adults Hospitalized with COVID-19–Like Illness with Infection-Induced or mRNA Vaccine-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Immunity — Nine States, January–September 2021 [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report]
• Blood cytokine analysis suggests that SARS-CoV-2 infection results in a sustained tumour promoting environment in cancer patients [MedRxiv (PDF)]
TWiV 821: Public clonotype #1
A TWiV trio reveal the isolation of novel paramyxoviruses from rodents and bats in Arizona, and isolation of naive B cells from seronegative donors that produce germline encoded antibodies which engage the receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2, variants of concern, and related sarbecoviruses from bats. Show notes at [Microbe TV]
FDA Advisory Panel OKs Pfizer Covid Vaccine For Kids 5 To 11
Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee – 10/26/2021
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On This Day
October 30th is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 62 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)
637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later.
1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia.
1340 – Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of RÃo Salado.
1657 – Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.
1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.
1817 – Simón BolÃvar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
1831 – Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
1888 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
1905 – Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
1918 – World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
1918 – World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
1941 – President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 – Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
1942 – World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
1944 – Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
1948 – A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
1953 – President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
1956 – Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
1959 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1991 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
2014 – Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
2014 – Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas.
2015 – Sixty-four people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest.
2020 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.
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Published at 4:45am on Saturday, October 30, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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