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Cool high pressure should control our weather today and it moves overhead. The high is expected to move offshore by Monday, allowing temperatures to warm back to normal for the first part of the week. Another rainy storm system is expected to move in Tuesday night and Wednesday. A cold front is expected to arrive from the west next weekend.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with a high near 53. Calm wind becoming south southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 26. Light and variable wind.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Tuesday
A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 9am, then a chance of rain showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with a high near 45. North northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 29. West southwest wind around 6 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 51. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. South southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, with a high near 53.
Tuesday Night
A chance of rain between 7pm and 8pm, then a chance of showers after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with a high near 52. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 28. Calm wind.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 59. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 36. South southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, with a high near 60.
Tuesday Night
A chance of rain between 7pm and 8pm, then a chance of showers after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with a high near 47. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 28. Light south southwest wind.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 58. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Light southeast wind.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, with a high near 58.
Tuesday Night
A chance of rain between 7pm and 8pm, then a chance of showers after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
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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 lower range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the ;pw range (7.4 out of 12) today with Elm, Maple, and Juniper being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (7.9 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 13th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 80°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1990
Lowest Temperature 5°F in Highlands in 1998
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.03 inches in Highlands in 1929
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1993
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
• Macon County Board of Commissioners - March 2022 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• Franklin Town Council - March 2022 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• Word from the Smokies: Convergence of diversity in Twin Creeks' Natural History room [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Unaffiliated voters overtake Democrats, now largest voting bloc in North Carolina [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• New program in NC puts 'bounty' on Bradford pear trees [WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC)]
• Contaminated jerky recall includes more than a dozen products found in North Carolina [Raleigh News and Observer]
• 'We get a second chance': ABCCM's Costello House to stay open through March [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Filing Closes for 2022 Primary, Candidate List [Macon Media]
• Otto Fire department establishes a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Cheif Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
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Special Section: Russia Invades Ukraine (Day 17)
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(additional long form videos are in the Science and Technology podcast section)
Day Seventeen/b>
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 12 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
Russia Uses Thermobaric Weapons on Ukraine: How Vacuum Bombs Work
"Vacuum Bomb" Thermobaric Weapons Assessment
• A 'Crushing' Victory: Fuel-Air Explosives and Grozny 2000 (FMSO) | [Downloads PDF]
• Russian attacks hit at least 9 Ukrainian medical facilities, visual evidence shows [Washington Post]
• Putin to Bring Thousands of Arab Fighters to Ukraine [Legal Insurrection]
• McCaul: 'I'm astounded that Zelensky’s still alive' [The Early 202 | Washington Post ]
• A Russian Telegram channel is claiming to fact check the Kremlin's war on Ukraine. It's actually spreading disinformation to hundreds of thousands of followers. [Insider]
Russian forces close in on Kyiv as Ukraine prepares for all-out assault
• Helping Ukraine [Google]
• title [SOURCE]
Ukraine War: Odesa prepares to defend against Russian attacks
Deep Dive: The Truth About the Biolabs
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
• Far left, far right find common ground opposing US interventionism [The Hill]
• title [SOURCE]
• Ukraine siege leaves lawmakers horrified, unified — and feeling helpless [The Hill]
• Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest mass execution [Yahoo! News]
Ukraine War: Odesa prepares to defend against Russian attacks
• 10th Circuit affirms dismissal of beef over ‘products of US’ meat label [Courthouse News Service]
• Conflicts to Watch in 2022 [Council on Foreign Relations]
Japan claims sovereignty over Russia controlled Kuril Islands | DW News
Global National: March 11, 2022 | Russia escalates bombardment, widens assault on western Ukraine
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 11th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 12th, 2022
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COVID-19 News and Updates
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 5:49am CET, 12 March 2022, there have been 452,201,564 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,029,852 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 6 March 2022, a total of 10,704,043,684 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:49am CET, 12 March 2022, there have been 78,739,443 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 958,659 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 February 2022, a total of 537,567,013 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Africa prepares for endemic COVID-19 [Nature]
• ‘It’s like we are being left to die’: Hong Kong tackles deadliest Covid wave [The Guardian]
• Should public health measures like masking continue beyond the pandemic? Data on viral infections shows their benefits [The Conversation]
• CDC's new COVID metrics can leave individuals struggling to understand their risk [National Public Radio]
• 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
• Putin's pre-war moves against US tech giants laid groundwork for crackdown on free expression [Stars and Stripes]
• Goldman Sachs’ CEO demanded all employees return full-time to the office. Only half showed up [Yahoo! Finance]
• Human Landing System (Document Refresh) [NASA]
• Company Plans to Dig World's Deepest Hole to Unleash Boundless Energy [VICE]
• Prominent editor of Russian Wikipedia pages detained in Belarus [Engadget]
• Russia has reportedly legalised some piracy in response to sanctions and boycotts [Video Games Chronicle]
• Alcohol Detection Sensor Might Be The Next Big Controversial Safety Feature To Be Required In Every New Car [Carscoops]
• NHTSA Rules That Manual Controls Are Not Required In Self-Driving Cars [Inside EVs]
• How TikTok has become a dangerous breeding ground for mental disorders [New York Post]
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Lamplight TV]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
Fish Fossil Asteroids - DTNS Science News Monthly 5
Putin's Road to War: Julia Ioffe (interview) | FRONTLINE
What the War in Ukraine Means for the World Order | Ian Bremmer | TED
The Russian War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Garry Kasparov (Episode #275)
Let's talk about a unique proposal going after oligarchs....
Linux Action News 231
Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
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On This Day
March 13th is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 293 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
1591 – At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
1639 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1741 – The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809.
1811 – A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars.
1826 – Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1848 – The German revolutions of 1848–1849 begin in Vienna.
1862 – The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves is passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1881 – Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
1884 – The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
1900 – British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.
1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
1954 – The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1969 – Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
1979 – Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.
1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
1992 – The Mw 6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
1993 – The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas.
1996 – The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.
1997 – The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader.
2003 – An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
2012 – The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children.
2013 – The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
2016 – The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people.
2016 – Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people.
2020 – President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States.
2020 – Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against police brutality.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, March 13, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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