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OUTLOOK
Warm, dry high pressure will dominate the weather across the region through the middle of the week. The high will slide east of the area by Thursday, as a slow-moving cold front approaches from the west. This front should bring decent rain chances through Friday. Much cooler high pressure will build in behind the front over the weekend.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [October 21, 2021]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners - November 2021 Meeting Agenda and Webcast [MaconMedia.com]
• Town of Franklin, NC to Honor Veterans on November 11th [MaconMedia.com]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
Patchy freezing fog before 8am. Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Calm winds.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in trhe lower 70s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm by midmorning.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm by midnight.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Calm winds.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s.
Otto area
Today
Patchy freezing fog before 8am. Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in trhe lower 70s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s.
Nantahala area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s.
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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
100 AM EST Mon Nov 8 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A non-tropical low pressure system with storm-force winds is located a couple of hundred miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This system is forecast to move east-northeastward during the next several days, and it could gradually lose its frontal characteristics by the middle of this week over the subtropical Atlantic Ocean. Thereafter, the low could acquire some subtropical characteristics while it moves eastward or east-northeastward over the open waters of the central Atlantic Ocean. For more information on this system, including storm and coastal flood 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...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
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Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the middle range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (2.3 out of 12) today with Ragweed and Chenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.8 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for November 8th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 79°F in Franklin in 1975
Lowest Temperature 15°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1960
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.00 inches in Franklins in 1996 Greatest One-Day Snowfall (there has been no snowfall recorded on this date since record-keeping began in 1872)
Record Weather Events for November (1872-2017)
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Nov 4, 2003
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands on Nov 25, 1950
Greatest Rainfall 4.69 inches in Highlands on Nov 29, 1914
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands on Nov 28, 1922
Record Weather Events for November 1st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Maysville, Onslow County in 2009
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1913
Greatest Rainfall 5.08 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1969
Greatest Snowfall 13.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
Record Weather Events for November in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Goldsboro, Wayne County on 11-09-1900
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-25-1950
Greatest Rainfall 8.15 inches in Idlewild, Ashe County on 11-06-1977
Greatest Snowfall 18.00 in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-04-1930
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Veterans Day in Franklin
The Town of Franklin will host the annual Veterans Day parade and ceremony on Thursday, November 11th. Veterans will assemble in the town hall parking lot at 10am and the parade starts at 10:30am. The route will be from the town hall to the town gazebo, where a short ceremony will occur. Details are at [MaconMedia.com]
THE POLAR EXPRESS™ Train Ride
THE POLAR EXPRESS™ with the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad is back in 2021! The 1¼ hour round-trip passenger excursion comes to life as the train departs the Bryson City depot for a journey through the quiet wilderness for a special visit at the North Pole. Set to the sounds of the motion picture soundtrack, guests on board will enjoy warm cocoa and a treat while listening and reading along with the magical story. Children’s faces show the magic of the season when the train arrives at the North Pole to find Santa Claus waiting. Santa will board THE POLAR EXPRESS™, greeting each child and presenting them with a special gift as in the story, their own silver sleigh bell. Christmas carols will be sung as they return back to the Bryson City Depot. For ticksts, see [GSMR.com]
COLD Turkey 5K & Little Turkeys Fun Run (ALL AGES) 2021
This year's Cold Turkey will be a benefit for Macon County Special Olympics
Gobble! Gobble! Join others for Franklin, NC's annual Cold Turkey 5K Run/Walk & Little Turkeys FUN! Run/Walk on THANKSGIVING DAY (2021)
Race day registration begins at 8:00AM
Little Turkeys FUN! Run/Walk (10-U) starts at 9AM
Cold Turkey 5K starts at 9:30AM
Dillsboro Lights & Luminaries
Adapted from an old Scandinavian custom of lighting the way for the Christ child, more than 2,500 candles in small white bags line the streets and every storefront is aglow with Christmas lights and decorations.
Shopkeepers and restaurants are open late. See Santa and Mrs. Claus as they ride through town in their pickup truck. Write a letter to Santa and drop it off at his special mailbox. Live music on Front Street.
For more information, see [Visit Dillsboro]
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National and World News Roundup
Bushcraft Bear Reports From La Palma (11-07-2021)
• Powerful Landsat 9 satellite beams home 1st photos of Earth [Live Science]
• Having jailed opposition candidates, Daniel Ortega is set to win Nicaragua presidency [NPR]
• Mine Blast In Central Syria Kills All 7 In Car [Barron's Magazine]
• Iraqi PM safe after drone attack on residence, military says [Reuters]
• Xi Jinping’s ‘historical resolution’: what is it and why is it important? [South China Morning Post]
Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) - November 7th, 2021
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - November 5th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Weekend Full Episode November 7th, 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: British Medical Journal vaccine trial report
• Covid 19: A strong pandemic response relies on good data [The British Medical Journal]
• Antibody Titers Before and After a Third Dose of the SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 Vaccine in Adults Aged ≥60 Years [JAMA Network]
• NIH scientists identify mechanism that may influence infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 variants [National Institutes of Health ]
• L.A. Movie Theaters, Restaurants Will Require Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination Starting Monday [Veriety Magazine]
• Malaysia ICR Study: Ivermectin Doesn’t Prevent Serious Covid-19 Illness [CodeBlue]
• COVID-19 fuelling an increase in double-lung transplants in B.C., specialist says [CBC]
• China reports 89 COVID cases as outbreaks grow [A l Jazeera]
TWiV 826: COVID-19 clinical update #87 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #87, Dr. Griffin reviews PCR cycle threshold and RNA copy number, rapid antigen tests, hospitalization rate after infection or vaccination, allergies and vaccination, community transmission and viral RNA load, early treatment with sotrovimab, meta-analysis of tocilizumab treatment, antibiotic overuse, and guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis.
Show notes at [https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-826/]
TWiV 827: A shot to save the world with Greg Zuckerman
• A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine [Amazon (Link to Kindle Edition)]
Show notes at [https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-827/]
• COVID-Vaccine Mandates for Kids Are Coming [The Atlantic]
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On This Day
November 8th is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 53 days remain until the end of the year.
This day marks the approximate midpoint of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and of spring in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the September equinox).
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
960 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Andrassos]
• [Byzantine Reconquista - Siege of Chandax 960-961]
• [Today in Middle Eastern history: the Battle of Andrassos (960)]
1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor.
1291 – The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano".
1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
• [Cortes Describes Tenochtitlan]
• [Tenochtitlán: History of Aztec Capital]
• [LINKTEXT]
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people mostly noblemen.
• [Wikipedia: Stockholm Bloodbath]
• [Stockholms Bloodbath in 8 min]
• [HistoryPod Video]
1576 – Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
1614 – Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of White Mountain]
• [The History of the Thirty Years' War by Friedrich Schiller]
• [Thirty Years' War - White Mountain 1620]
1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
• [Wikipedia: 1892 New Orleans general strike]
• [VIDEO: The 1892 New Orleans General Strike]
1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1901 – Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
1917 – The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
• [Wikipedia: Beer Hall Putsch]
• [The Beer Hall Putsch (1923)]
• [Putsch Sequence From 'The Rise of Evil']
1932 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover.
• [Wikipedia: 1932 United States presidential election]
• [The Election of 1932 Explained]
• [1932 Presidential Elect FDR Makes Acceptance Speech]
1933 – Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
• [Wikipedia: The Eternal Jew (art exhibition)]
• [Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team]
• [Jordan Peterson Analyzes Nazi Propaganda Film “The Eternal Jew” (Der Ewige Jude, 1940)]
1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1940 – Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
1942 – World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
• [Operation Torch-The invasion of North Africa]
• [Wikipedia: Operation Torch]
1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
1957 – Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
• [Wikipedia: Grapple X]
• [VIDEO: First successful British thermonuclear bomb]
• [8 NOVEMBER 1957 - GRAPPLE X]
1960 – John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, who would later be elected president in 1968 and 1972.
• [1960 United States presidential election]
• [JFK vs. Nixon, 1960 Election Coverage, Documentary (1960 original)]
• [JFK'S VICTORY SPEECH AFTER BEING ELECTED PRESIDENT (NOVEMBER 9, 1960)]
1963 – Finnair's Douglas DC-3 plane crashes in Mariehamn, Åland, killing 22 people.
1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom for almost all crimes.
1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
• [Wikipedia: Operation Hump]
• [Big & Rich - 8th of November Documentary: A True Story of Pain & Honor]
• [Big & Rich Music Video]
• [Lessons of Vietnam - Operation Hump / 8 of November]
1965 – American Airlines Flight 383 crashes in Constance, Kentucky, killing 58.
1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
1972 – American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches.
1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
1981 – Aeroméxico Flight 110 crashes near Zihuatanejo, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
1983 – TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.
1987 – Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
1988 – U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
• [1988 United States presidential election]
• [CNN: 1988 Presidential Election Returns, Nov 8, 1988]
• [CBS NEWS ELECTION NIGHT 1988 - 7:00 P.M E.T - 10:52 P.M E.T]
1994 – Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of Congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally), thus bringing to a close four decades of Democratic domination.
1999 – Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
• [United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441]
• [Resolution 1441 (PDF)]
• [Security Council Resolution 1441 on Iraq's Final Opportunity to Comply with Disarmament Obligations]
2004 – Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
• [Wikipedia: Second Battle of Fallujah]
• [US Marines Intense Combat Footage In Fallujah | Operation Phantom Fury]
• [Phantom Fury Footage Shows Intense Battle On Iraqi Streets]
2006 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun.
2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
2013 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.
2016 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly announces the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes.
2016 – Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever to receive a major party's nomination.
• [2016 United States presidential election]
• [Presidential Election 2016 LIVE | ABC News FULL BROADCAST]
• [Donald Trump VICTORY SPEECH | Full Speech as President Elect of the United States]
• [Election 2016 - What Happened? | VICE News Tonight Special]
• [Trump's Road to the White House (full film) | FRONTLINE]
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, November 08, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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