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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the south.
Monda
A slight chance of rain before noon, then a chance of showers between noon and 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain is 50%.
Monda Night
Showers likely, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the south 3 to 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monda A slight chance of rain between 10am and 11am, then a chance of showers after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Chance of rain is 50%.
Monda Night
Showers likely, mainly before 2am, then a chance of rain after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Sunday
Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of teh south 3 to 5 mph.
Monda
A slight chance of rain between 10am and 11am, then a chance of showers after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs near 70. Chance of rain is 50%.
Monda Night
Showers likely, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the south 3 to 5 mph.
Monda
A chance of showers before 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 3pm and 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Monda Night
Showers, mainly before 2am. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected.
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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 due to smoke from several fires in the southeast.
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (9.5 out of 12) today with Alder, Juniper, and Elm being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (9.7 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 5th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 77°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1955
Lowest Temperature -1°F in Highlands in 1960
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.68 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2008
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands in 1980
Record weather events for March in Macon County
Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 15, 1967
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on March 7, 1899
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.43 inches in Highlands on March 29, 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 13, 1993
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
• Judge blocks voters' Constitutional challenge against Rep. Cawthorn's candidacy [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Filing Closes for 2022 Primary, Candidate List [Macon Media]
• Candidate filing closes, stage set for NC legislative primary battles [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Once ‘like a gated community,’ Coach K has improved access to Duke basketball [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Candidate filing period ends with some surprises [Smoky Mountain News]
• Otto Fire department establishes a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Cheif Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
Franklin Town Council - January 2022 Regular Meeting
Asheville Citizen-Times COVID-19 Tracker [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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Special Section: Russia Invades Ukraine (Day 9)
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(additional long form videos are in the Science and Technology podcast section)
Day Ten ISW Graphic
Ukraine Invasion Continues Day 10 (FNN Live)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 4 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF Download]
• Ukraine still has 'significant majority' of its military aircraft -U.S. official [SOURCE]
• Ukraine war: Ukraine can absolutely win against Russia - Blinken [BBC News]
War in Ukraine: What happened at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant?
Sky News reporter and team under heavy fire in ambush near Kyiv [FULL VIDEO]
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Full Feature | Netflix
Jamie Hyneman Posted a Short Message About Ukraine
Jamie Hyneman has something to say and he asked us to share it with all of you pic.twitter.com/XKrK8J7P83
— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) March 4, 2022
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Reasons for Failure? Russian Air Force in Ukraine
Additional News Sources
• Russia Launches invasion of Ukraine [BBC Liveblog]
https://www.kyivpost.com/
https://ukranews.com/en/news
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cx1m7zg0gzdt/ukraine
https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/
https://www.ukrinform.net/
https://www.cgtn.com/europe
NΞMICO NΞTWORK
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNFS1bhD94Qc5vSARGOo6w
EarthCam Live: Kyiv, Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cyQPN5xQtU
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine | LIVE | Situation Room | INDB | Russian Military Advancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8iFW7BRNA
Al Jazeera English | Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-upyPouRrB8
DW News livestream | Headline news from around the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KZGs1MtP4
LIVE MULTI-CAM: EXPLOSIONS NEAR KIEV - UKRAINE/RUSSIA/DONETSK/LUHANSK + TWITTER FEEDS/NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfpk4OFkXE
Putin announces 'special operation' in Donbass | SPECIAL COVERAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0I5eglJMRI
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National and World News Roundup
• Teacher left classroom in stretcher after 5-year-old student’s attack [WPLG-TV (MIami, FL)]
• A convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 measures is expected to arrive in the DC area this weekend. Here's what we know [CNN]
• High court reimposes Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence [AP News]
• Philly becomes the first big U.S. city with a law banning minor traffic stops [BillyPenn]
• Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week [Sky News]
• Conflicts to Watch in 2022 [Council on Foreign Relations]
Global National: March 4, 2022 | Ukrainians resist as Russia hammers major cities
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 4th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 4th, 2022
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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 5:18pm CET, 4 March 2022, there have been 440,807,756 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,978,096 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 February 2022, a total of 10,585,766,316 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:18pm CET, 4 March 2022, there have been 78,428,884 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 947,625 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 February 2022, a total of 537,567,013 vaccine doses have been administered.
TWiV 872: COVID-19 clinical update #104 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
• In COVID-19 clinical update #104, Daniel Griffin reviews effectiveness of mRNA vaccines among children, number of children affected by disease, accuracy of rapid antigen tests, CDC guidance for prevention strategies, monoclonal antibody effectiveness, predicting progression to severe respiratory failure from pneumonia, risk of long COVID after two vaccine doses, and peripheral neuropathy in long COVID.
Show notes at [Microbe TV]
• New COVID-19 cases over 250,000 for 2nd day; deaths at all-time high in South Korea [Yonhap News Agency]
• AMA statement on Administration’s test-to-treat COVID-19 plan [American Medical Association]
• Interop 2022: browsers working together to improve the web for developers [Wed,dev]
• A deer may have passed COVID-19 to a person, study suggests [National Geographic]
• COVID Is on the Verge of Becoming a Poor-Country Disease [The Atlantic]
• Monitoring COVID-19
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part I [Reddit]
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part II [Reddit]
[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]
• Variant: 21L (Omicron) also known as BA.2[CoVariants]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• This Week In Security: Ukraine, Nvidia, And Conti [Hackaday]
• Why the Steam Deck might be too “open” for Fortnite and Destiny 2 [ars TECHNICA]
• Facebook And Twitter Have Been Blocked In Russia [Buss Feed News]
• ‘Ukrainians are built different’: The software developers still working under Russian bombing [CNBC]
• Python's second-most prolific contributor lives in Ukraine. Fellow developers are helping his family escape the war and communicating via Google Translate. [Business Insider]
• ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ is now a shared one [Poynter]
• Russian propaganda ‘outgunned’ by social media rebuttals [AP News]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
Turning Food Into Content - DTNS 4225
The Cyber Curtain Is Here
One of the most detailed model railroad layouts for America’s biggest steam locomotives in O scale
The War in Ukraine Could Change Everything | Yuval Noah Harari | TED
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Full Feature | Netflix
Former MI6 Chief On the Ukraine & Russia Conflict | Oxford Union (March 1st)
Russia could take Ukraine war to space
Gen. Jack Keane: Putin is determined to accomplish his objective
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On This Day
March 5th is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 301 days remain until the end of the year. It is the first day of March. It is also the first day of meteorological spring in Northern Hemisphere.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
1811 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1825 – Roberto CofresÃ, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 – The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1936 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: The National Defence Council seizes control of the republican government in a coup d'etat, with the intention of negotiating an end to the war.
1940 – Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
1943 – First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–BotoÈ™ani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
1960 – Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 – BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
1970 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world.
1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.
2018 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin.
2021 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 – Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, March 05, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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