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OUTLOOK
A dry airmass will persist over the region through Tuesday night, and temperatures will moderate back to seasonal normals to start the work week. A frontal system will encroach on the area at midweek, bringing still warmer temperatures, and rainfall by early Thursday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Franklin Area
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30.
Wednesday
A 40 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the west 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph in the morning becoming calm in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Calm winds early in the evening increasing to come out of the northeast around 5 mph before midnight.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30.
Wednesday
A 40 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 9pm. Cloudy, with lows around 40. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the west early in the morning increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the north 3 to 5 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
Wednesday
A 40 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 50.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Patchy black ice will pose a danger to drivers through this morning. Temperatures will struggle to rise above freezing, but should make it during the middle part of the day across the mountains at elevations below 5000 feet. The ridge tops may well remain below freezing today.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the middle range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.3 out of 12) today with Juniper and Elmbeing the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for January 30th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 76°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2002
Lowest Temperature -14°F in Highlands in 1966
Greatest Rainfall 4.20 inches in Franklin in 1875
Greatest Snowfall 3.5 inches in Highlands in 1981
Record weather events for January in Macon County
Highest Temperature 78°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Jan 28, 1999
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on Jan 21, 1985
Greatest Rainfall 4.30 inches in Nantahala on Jan 23, 1971
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 14.0 inches in Franklin on Jan 21, 1877
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
• Challenge to Vance Monument removal in Asheville set for Feb. review by NC Appellate Court [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Tight timeline for challenge to Cawthorn's eligibility to run [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• ‘I will die free’: Unvaccinated Burke County man denied kidney transplant by hospital [WSOC-TV (Charlotte, NC)]
Franklin Town Council - January 2022 Regular Meeting
Asheville Citizen-Times COVID-19 Tracker [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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National and World News Roundup
• Man charged with threatening Biden said he was ‘coming to the White House,' Secret Service alleges [Yahoo! News]
Ukrainian Soldiers Are Preparing for Russia to Invade (Again)
The REAL Reason Putin is Preparing for War in Ukraine
• Russian troops display combat-readiness amid Ukraine tensions [Russia Today]
• Full collection of SCOTUSblog coverage of Breyer Retirement Announcement [SCOTUSblog]
• The depopulation timebomb facing the West is about to explode [The telegraph]
Global National: Jan. 29, 2022 | Trucker convoy vows to stay in Ottawa until demands met
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - January 29th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode January 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: [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.
• Myocarditis Risk 17 Times Higher for Unvaccinated Patients Ages 12-30 Who Get COVID-19 Than COVID-Vaccinated Patients [Epic Research]
Dr John Campbell: Study confirms omicron reinfections
• https://www.science.org/content/article/after-omicron-some-scientists-foresee-period-quiet [Science]
• Thousands protest Covid mandates and restrictions in Ottawa [Courthouse News Service]
• Taiwan invents chip able to identify asymptomatic COVID cases rapidly [Focus Taiwan]
• ‘Pandemic vs endemic’ sets up two conflicting Covid endgames [Financial Times]
• Lynnwood bar advertised 'catch the virus' show [KOMO-TV (Seattle, WA)]
• 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
• Walmart Just Invested Big in Vertical Farming [Singularity Hub]
• title [SOURCE]
• New tech could reverse diseases, including IBS and diabetes, using intestinal cells [Gut News]
• The Scientific Debate Rages on: Is there Water Under Mars’ South Pole? [Universe Today]
• How the Extinction of Ice Age Mammals May Have Forced Us to Invent Civilization [Singularity Hub]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Level1 News January 26 2022: Nobody Expects The Microsoft Acquisition!
How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?
• Addendum - EP18 Iranian Interconnections [Hardcore History]
Hardcore History: EP18 Iranian Interconnections
Deep Space Radiation, Black Holes And Other Questions - Episode 14
How one British laboratory protects the world's chocolate
5 cool things you can do with your router's USB port!
Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Kakenya Ntaiya
Brian Keating and Lee Cronin on Life in the Universe, Assembly Theory, and the Meaning of Time
NEWS: MSFT up $10B, Neil Young vs. Rogan (Spotify: Platform or Publisher), Case Study: Scratchpad
Elon Musk... and Asperger's Syndrome.
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On This Day
January 30th is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 335 days remain until the end of the year (336 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)
1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
1649 – Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London.
1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
1703 – The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
1789 – Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
1920 – Japanese carmaker Mazda is founded, initially as a cork-producing company.
1925 – The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
1930 – The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders that a million prosperous peasant families be driven off their farms.
1933 – Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are killed after the surrender. One-quarter of the remaining POWs remain alive at the end of the war.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people.
1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred and twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.
1948 – British South American Airways' Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle.
1948 – Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home compound, India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcasts to the nation, saying "The light has gone out of our lives". The date of the assassination becomes observed as "Martyrs' Day" in India.
1956 – In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.
1959 – The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, specifically designed to operate in icebound seas, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
1972 – Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
1974 – Pan Am Flight 806 crashes near Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa, killing 97.
1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
1979 – A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
1995 – Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.
2000 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, January 30, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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