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Dry and warming high pressure returns to the area today through Monday. Precipitation chances increase a little Tuesday, before a dry and colder Canadian high settles across the region Wednesday through the end of the week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Tuesday
A slight chance of rain and snow between 9am and 10am, then a slight chance of rain after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs near 50. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
A slight chance of rain between 11am and 4pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the upper 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday
A slight chance of rain between 11am and 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Light winds out of the southwest.
Tuesday
A slight chance of rain between 1pm and 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Light and variable winds. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
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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 (1.1 out of 12) today with Juniper being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.1 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for January 23rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 72°F in Highlands in 1927
Lowest Temperature -2°F in Highlands in in 2003
Greatest Rainfall 4.30 inches in Highlands in 1971
Greatest Snowfall 8.7nches in Highlands in 2016
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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Macon Calendar
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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]
• Keepers of the Light: North Carolina’s Linemen [Our State]
• Clampitt speaks on Oath Keepers [Smoky Mountain News]
• City Council May Be Considering Restrictions Against Sharing Food With Unhoused Neighbors [Asheville Free Press]
• Lawsuit Forces Asheville to Withdraw from Scholarship’s Racial Focus [Asheville Tribune]
• COVID-19 case positivity rate more than 20% in Haywood County [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
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
Repeat from Yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir0x_X3b-8I 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
• Major questions from the Supreme Court could upend the administrative state [Courthouse News Service]
• Washington Today (1/21/22): US, Russia to try more diplomacy amid tensions over Ukraine [SOURCE]
• IS prison break in Syria sparks days of clashes [C-SPAN 3 on Youtube]
• Uganda to immunise 8 million children against polio [The East African]
• United Airlines Flight To Israel Diverts Due To Self-Upgraders [One M
• Confusion over UK claim that Putin plans coup in Ukraine [The Guardian]
Global National: Jan. 22, 2022 | 2 Canadians killed, 1 wounded in shooting at Mexico resort
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - January 22nd, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode January 22nd, 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
• How does Omicron spread so fast? A high viral load isn’t the answer [Nature]
• Pfizer CEO sees annual COVID vaccine rather than frequent boosters [Reuters]
• Carhartt CEO says he's still mandating staff vaccinations. Now he's facing a boycott [CBS News]
• Robert Zubrin: The case for space expansionism [Political Economy with James Pethokoukis]
• 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
• White House Is Set to Put Itself at Center of U.S. Crypto Policy [Bloomberg Quint]
• Former SpaceX engineers bring autonomous, electric rail vehicle startup out of stealth [Autoblog]
• Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge [BBC News]
• Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet went on a buying spree in 2021 despite D.C.’s vow to take on Big Tech [CNBC]
• Google may already be making another Chromecast with Google TV [Engadget]
• Elon Musk’s Brain Chip Firm Neuralink Set to Start Human Trials [Greek Reporter]
• The U.K. Paid $724,000 For A Creepy Campaign To Convince People That Encryption is Bad. It Won’t Work. [Electronic Frontier Foundation]
• The Best Ebook Subscription Services for Every Kind of Reader [Wired]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #258
SpaceX Mechazilla Action, Starlink, Russian EVA, Tonga Volcano Eruption, Gilmour Space
Exciting FlatHub, Wine 7.0, SUSE Liberty Linux, Linux Mint, AppIndicators | This Week in Linux 182
Civilizations at the End of Time: The Big Rip
Why This Zig-Zag Coast Guard Search Pattern is Actually Genius - Smarter Every Day 268
Would You Sleep Beside A Nuclear Reactor? The N.S. Savannah Story
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On This Day
January 23nd is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 342 days remain until the end of the year (343 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)
393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
1264 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War.
1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire
1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) when Bishop John Carroll, Rev. Robert Molyneux, and Rev. John Ashton purchase land for the proposed academy for the education of youth.
1793 – Second Partition of Poland.
1795 – After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry.
1846 – Slavery in Tunisia is abolished.
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first president.
1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
1904 – Ålesund Fire: The Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
1937 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
1943 – World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
1945 – World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
1950 – The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese Army stationed in Tite.
1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
1967 – Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty-one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
1968 – USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by the Korean People's Navy.
1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
1987 – Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan sends a "letter of death" to Somali President Siad Barre, proposing the genocide of the Isaaq people.
1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
1998 – Netscape announces Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
2002 – U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
2003 – A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
2018 – A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
2018 – A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.
2018 – The China–United States trade war begins when President Donald Trump places tariffs on Chinese solar panels and washing machines.
2020 – The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, January 23, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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