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OUTLOOK
Weak surface high pressure will settle over the area today. A dry cold front will push into the region tonight. Breezy conditions will be in store Saturday behind the front. High pressure remains over the area through Sunday before a second dry cold front crosses the area Sunday night. Cool and dry high pressure will set up shop through the early part of next week behind the second frontal passage.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 10, 2021]
A look back at the 2016 Veterans Day Parade in Franklin, NC when the smoke from nearby wildfires was so thick, you could not see past 400 feet...yet the veterans still marched and the people showed up to honor them.
• Congressman Cawthorn won’t run for re-election in current district, will seek election in another [Smoky Mountain News]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners - November 2021 Meeting Agenda and Webcast [MaconMedia.com]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-30s. Calm winds in the evening increasing to come out of the northeast around 5 mph after midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-20s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s.
Otto area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-30s. Calm winds increasing to come out of the north around 5 mph after midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30.
Nantahala area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-30s. Light and variable winds increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph before midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Patchy dense fog may limit visibility early this morning. Other than that, there are no hazardous weather concerns for today. Remember to turn on your headlights so other motorists can see you.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
100 AM EST Fri Nov 12 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
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 levels are expected to be in the low range (0.3 out of 12) today with Ragweed being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (1.7 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for November 12th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 80°F in Franklin in 1989
Lowest Temperature 0°F in Highlands in 1894
Greatest Rainfall 2.88 inches in Highlands in 1935
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 2.0 inches in Highlands in 1968
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)
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
Level1 News November 12th, 2021: 4 Years Late and a Lunar Lander Short
• Watch Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dogs Recreate Rolling Stones’ ‘Start Me Up’ Video [Rolling Stone Magazine]
• Man who punched Capitol police officer gets longest sentence yet tied to riot [Courthouse News Service]
• Defense rests its case at murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse [AP News]
• Black Ohio police officer whose white chief put KKK note on his coat breaks his silence [NBC News]
• 'We don't want any more Black pastors coming in here,' says defense attorney in Arbery death trial [CNN]
• Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to bar psychologist from testifying at sex crimes trial [Reuters]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - November 11th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Weekend Full Episode November 11th, 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: [November 10, 2021]
• COVID-19 hot spots offer sign of what could be ahead for US [AP News]
• SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Air Samples from Inside Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems- COVID Surveillance in Student Dorms [American Journal of Infection Control]
• A self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 vaccine drives potent and broad immune responses at low doses that protects non-human primates against SARS-CoV-2 [BioRxiv (PDF)]
• LAPD chief ready to fire officers who defy vaccine mandate [CBS News]
• Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from on-field player contacts in amateur, youth and professional football (soccer) [British Medical Journal]
• Anti-vaxxers disrupt Remembrance Day services in Kelowna [Vancouver Sun]
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 12th is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 49 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)
954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.
1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
1330 – Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.
1439 – Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
1905 – Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
1912 – King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
• [Wikipedia: Terra Nova Expedition]
• [Race to the South Pole - Tragedy at the South Pole]
1918 – Austria becomes a republic. After the proclamation, a coup attempt by the communist Red Guard is defeated by the social-democratic Volkswehr.
1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
1933 – Nazi Germany uses a referendum to ratify its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
1936 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.
1940 – World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.
1941 – World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to −12 °C (10 °F) as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
1941 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.
• [Wikipedia: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal]
• [Guadalcanal Naval Campaign (Video Playlist)]
• [Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 2 (IJN 3(?) : 3 USN)]
• [The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 1942 - Animated]
• 1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
1948 – In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
• [Wikipedia: Operation Catechism]
• [Newsreel: 1944 RAF Bombers Sink Nazi Battleship Tirpitz]
• [The Legendary Raid Of Hitler's Unsinkable Ship | Sinking The Tirpitz | Timeline]
1954 – Ellis Island ceased operations.
1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
1961 – Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the ketch Bluebelle.
1969 – Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
• [KATU-TV (2020 Remastered Version)]
• [Florence Whale Explosion]
• [OPB: ‘It was like a blubber snowstorm’: Why Oregon blew up a whale in 1970]
• [Exploding Whale Memorial Park (Florence, Oregon)]
1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan, becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
1971 – Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, U.S. President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
1977 – France conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests series.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
• [Voyager 1 Reaches Saturn - CBS Evening News - November 12, 1980]
• [NASA: Images Voyager Took of Saturn]
• [Voyager Encounter Highlights Tape (Some Parts Silent)]
1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a crewed spacecraft is launched into space twice.
1982 – USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
• [Tim Berners-Lee: How This Guy Invented the World Wide Web 30 Years Ago]
• [The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Tim Berners-Lee]
1991 – Santa Cruz massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1995 – Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence is reached.
1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 in the deadliest mid-air collision to date.
1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1999 – The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.
2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2001 – War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2003 – Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the
2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record of 501 kilometres per hour (311 mph) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
2011 – Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.
2011 – A blast in Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base leads to the death of 17 of the Revolutionary Guards members, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
2014 – The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
• [Wikipedia: Philae (spacecraft)]
• [The amazing adventures of Rosetta and Philae]
• [Philae's descent: The director's cut]
• [Inside a comet: Philae's final secret]
• [ESA Photo Archive]
2015 – Two suicide bombers detonate explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.
2017 – The 7.3 Mw Kermanshah earthquake shakes the northern Iran–Iraq border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 410 people are killed and over 7,000 are injured.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, November 12, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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