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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 18. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 30s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of snow showers after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Calm winds increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 50.
Monday Night
A chance of rain and snow showers after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 40. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Light winds out of the southwest.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 40. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph in the early evening becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s.
Monday Night
A chance of rain and snow showers after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Patchy black ice is possible on untreated roads. Other than that, no hazardous weather is expected today.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the upper range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (0.4 out of 12) today with Juniper being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (1.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for January 22nd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 70°F in Franklin in 1967
Lowest Temperature -13°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1985
Greatest Rainfall 4.07 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1959
Greatest Snowfall 9.0 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1987
Record weather events for December in Macon County
Highest Temperature 78°F in Franklin on Dec 31, 1951
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Highlands on Dec 30, 1917
Greatest Rainfall 6.00 inches in Highlands on Dec 14, 1901
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 12.0 inches in Franklin on Dec 21, 1876
All-time record weather events for Macon County
Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on Jul 29, 1952
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on Jan 21, 1985
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on Jul 29, 1879
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Mar 13, 1993
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 15, 2021]
• Get free at-home COVID-19 tests [COVIDtests.gov]
• Revised Nantahala and Pisgah forest plan released [Macon Media]
• Smokies visitation blasts past 14 million [Smoky Mountain News]
• Tennessee National Guard airlifts hiker out of Great Smoky Mountains [WATE-TV (Knoxville, TN)]
• Plans for Nantahala, Pisgah national forests reflect the area's many interests [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• 3 new COVID-19 clusters identified in Buncombe County Schools [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• NC governor, attorney general, call on state Supreme Court to throw out gerrymandered maps [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Republican U.S. Senate candidates unite, targeting fellow candidate on the rise in polls [Raleigh News and Observer]
Franklin Town Council - January 2022 Regular Meeting
Asheville Citizen-Times COVID-19 Tracker [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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Special Section: The Situation in Ukraine as of January 21, 2022
Background (note: some of this material includes pro-Russian viewpoints not as an endorcement, but to attempt to show other views)
• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis [Wikipedia]
• Kremlin’s unwillingness to recognize Ukraine as a sovereign state has resulted in major strategic failure for Russia, Stanford scholar says [Stanford News]
• Conflict in Ukraine [Global Conflict Tracker]
What's triggered tension between Ukraine and Russia? | Inside Story
Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer (2015)
Senate Republicans discuss the Ukraine crisis
Latest Developments
How Russia lost Ukraine
Why is Russia's Putin so focused on Ukraine?
The Russian Military Threat to Ukraine: How Serious?
If Russia did invade: How far would the West go to support Ukraine?
Lavrov holds presser after meeting Blinken over Ukraine crisis
Ukraine border tensions: Blinken gives press conference after meeting with Lavrov • FRANCE 24
Tensions continue to rise between Russia and Ukraine
Blinken Begs Lavrov for Time, Hints at Ukraine Settlement, After US' Disastrous Week of Diplomacy
Canada offers $120M loan to Ukraine amid Russia crisis
Ukraine-Russia: Can a new war be avoided? - BBC Newsnight
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National and World News Roundup
• Intel Reveals Plans for Massive New Ohio Factory, Fighting the Chip Shortage Stateside [Time]
• ‘Good luck! We’ll all need it’: U.S. market approaches end of ‘superbubble,’ says Jeremy Grantham [Market Watch]
• Biden administration raises minimum wage for U.S. federal employees to $15 [Reuters]
• Iran, Russia, China start war games to counter 'maritime piracy' [France 24]
• NYPD arrests woman after she allegedly spit on an 8-year-old Jewish boy [CNN]
• Boebert asked Jewish visitors to Capitol if they were doing 'reconnaissance' [The Hill]
• Ghana blast: Many feared dead after huge explosion near Bogoso [BBC News]
Ghana: Major explosion as truck carrying explosives hits motorbike
• Brian Laundrie claimed responsibility for Gabby Petito's death in notebook: FBI [KABC-TV (Los Angeles)]
• U.S. charges Texas man for threatening Georgia election officials [Reuters]
• Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines [POLITICO]
Draft Executive Order Was A ‘Nightmare Scenario’ In Trump’s Final Days
• Texas attorney general refuses to hand over Jan. 6 records [KWTX-TV (Waco, TX)]
Global National: Jan. 21, 2022 | Little hope for a diplomatic solution for Ukraine-Russia situation
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - January 21st, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode January 21st, 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 18, 2021]
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
Globally, as of 5:55pm CET, 21 January 2022, there have been 340,543,962 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,570,163 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 19 January 2022, a total of 9,571,502,663 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:55pm CET, 21 January 2022, there have been 68,199,861 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 852,334 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 14 January 2022, a total of 511,548,471 vaccine doses have been administered.
Dr John Campbell: Freedom of information revelation
• TWiV 856: COVID-19 clinical update #98 with Dr. Daniel Griffin [This Week in Virology]
• TWiV 855: T time with Alessandro Sette [This Week in Virology]
• Moderna vaccine recipients have lower risk of breakthrough infections, hospitalization: study [CTV News]
• Arizona Gov. Ducey suing Biden administration over threats to pull COVID relief money [KTAR-FM (Gendale, AZ)]
• Mom threatens bringing loaded gun to Va. school over mask policy: 'See y'all on Monday' [WSET-TV (Lynchburg, VA)]
• Beijing's Olympic 'bubble' will be the most ambitious Covid quarantine ever attempted. Will it work? [CNN]
• Nine evacuated as Covid-19 hits Antarctic research base [Buenos Aires Times]
• ESPN will not send reporters to Beijing Olympics [AP News]
• Dunkin' customer threw hot coffee on maskless man, cops say [WNYW-TV (New York, NY)]
• Monitoring COVID-19
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
[Outbreak.info]
• CDC Releases Emergency Guidance for Healthcare Facilities to Prepare for Potential Omicron Surge [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
• COVID-19 case rates by county in 2021 [AXIOS]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Intel to Invest at Least $20 Billion in New Chip Factories in Ohio [New York Times]
President Biden Delivers Remarks on Semiconductor Manufacturing in the United States
• Social media manipulation on the rise in India [Asia Times]
• Researchers Discover Dangerous Firmware-Level Rootkit [Dark reading]
• New Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars [Motorious]
• PlayStation Creator Calls VR Headsets 'Annoying', and 'Can't See the Point' of the Metaverse [IGN]
• Google Splurges on 30% Lobbying Boost Amid Rising D.C. Hostility [Bloomberg]
• An X-ray glow suggests black holes or neutron stars fuel weird cosmic ‘cows’ [Science News]
• Twitter brings NFTs to the timeline as hexagon-shaped profile pictures [The verge]
• YouTube Accounts, Websites Against India Will Be Blocked, Says Minister [NDTV]
• Report: Chinese Olympic app has serious security flaws [ABC News]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
What The Future Cars, Planes And Trains In The U.S. Could Look Like
Calling All Wizards: Let’s Build the Ultimate Data Org Guide
• #310: Algorithmic Amplification [Tech Policy Podcast]
Enterprise Security at CES 2022
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On This Day
January 22nd is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 343 days remain until the end of the year (344 in leap years).
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
871 РBattle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King ̠thelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1517 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
1555 – The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Myanmar.
1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
1808 – The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
1824 – The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
1863 – The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
1879 – The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.
1879 – The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 15 km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King of the United Kingdom after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1905 – Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
1915 – Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
1917 – American entry into World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
1941 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly fought Battle of Buna–Gona.
1944 – World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
1946 – In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad; he becomes the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh becomes the prime minister.
1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
1957 – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
1957 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1963 – The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and West Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
1971 – The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
1973 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
1973 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
1973 – In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.
1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
1987 – Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
1992 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1992 – Space Shuttle program: The space shuttle Discovery launches on STS-42 carrying Dr. Roberta Bondar, who becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
1995 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid suicide bombing: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israeli soldiers.
1998 – Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2007 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
2009 – President Barack Obama signs an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which is not implemented due to congressional opposition.
2018 – Minnie Mouse receives her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of her 90th anniversary.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, January 22, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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