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OUTLOOK
Cooler weather wil, dominate the local weather pattern today as a dry cold front passes by the region. Additional disturbances will pass over the area this weekend, reinforcing the unseasonably cool air and bringing a chance of light snow showers to the higher ridges of the North Carolina mountains. A warming trend begins on Monday with unseasonably warm temperatures expected for the rest of the work week.
• Otto Fire Department has established a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Chief Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs near 50. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2am. Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of teh northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
A slight chance of rain and snow showers after 3am. Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday
Partly sunny through mid morning, then becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs near 50. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows around freezing.
Nantahala Area
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs in the upper 40s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows around 30.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Gusty winds and low humidty this afternoon will make outdoor burning risky. Please use extra caution if you burn outdoors today.
Increasingly gusty winds are expected on Saturday. In addition, low relative humidity levels could give rise to an increased fire danger.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the lower range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.1 out of 12) today with Juniper, Oak, and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.7 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 25th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 84°F in Highlands in 1929
Lowest Temperature 14°F in Franklin in 1956
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.14 inches in Highlands in 1901
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.5 inches in Highlands in 1971
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 Commissioners - March 2022 Special Meeting
The Macon County Board of Commissioners held a special called meeting on March 24th, 2022, to provide match funding to be used by local Internet providers in NC GREAT broadband grant submittals. Commissioners voted 5-0 to each application $50,000 in matching funds from their pot of money ($6.9 million) from the American Rescue Plan Act. Frontier Communications and Balsam West each will receive $50,000 for their applications and $100,000 for the two applications being submitted by Altice USA (known locally as Morris Broadband/Optimum). If the providers are not awarded GREAT funding, the funds will revert back to Macon County.
• New Leandro case judge calls for state analysis of budget impacts [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC Sen. Tillis questions Supreme Court nominee Jackson. Five things he focused on. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• N.C. auditor details alleged embezzlement, some $430K, in Spring Lake [Carolina Journal] [PDF of Report]
March 2022: Relative & Non-Relative Placements | North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
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WNC Broadband Meeting
Kevin Corbin (NC Senate 50th District) and Karl Gillespie (NC House 120th District) hosted an event (MOnday, March 21st) at Holly Springs Baptist Church to discuss expanding access to broadband in western North Carolina. Among those represented, were the Division of Broadband and Digital Equity, members of the NC House (Karl Gillespie (120th), Mike Clampitt (NC-119th), and Mark Pless (118th) that serve the counties in the NC Senate 50th District represented by Senator Corbin. Local elected officials and staff members from the counties and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee and the Town of Franklin and Highlands were also present, as well as Southwestern Community College, Morris Broadband, Frontier Communications, Balsam West, and other regional internet providers. There were also members of the public and regional news media outlets present. This is the video of the full event.
• Otto Fire Department has established a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Cheif Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
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Special Section: Russo-Ukrainian War Updates (March 24th)
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(additional long form videos are in the Science and Technology podcast section)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 24 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for the 24th]
Ukraine Conducts Counteroffensives near Kyiv; Day 29 (FNN Live)
The battle of Irpin: Meeting the Ukrainian resistance • FRANCE 24 English
President Biden Holds a Press Conference at a NATO Conference (March 24, 2022)
• Ukraine Mounts Counteroffensives as Russia Stalls Outside of Kiev [The National Interest]
• Ukraine Has Destroyed Nearly 10% of Russia's Tanks, Making Experts Ask: Are Tanks Over? [Military.com]
The Weekly Podcast: Greatest Hits From Ukraine's Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya
• Ukrainian counter-attack & photos from the frontline | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast (March 23, 200) [The Telegraph on Youtube]
🇺🇦 What does the future hold for Ukraine? | The Stream (March 24, 2022)
• Scheherazade: The £500m superyacht in Tuscan port ‘linked to Putin’ [London Evening Standard]
Cold War 2.0? The Global Economic Impact of Sanctions Against Russia | WSJ
• Ukraine War: Civilians abducted as Russia tries to assert control [BBC News]
• Russia is considering selling its oil and gas for bitcoin as sanctions intensify from the West [CNBC]
Washington Today (3-24-22): President Biden calls for Russia to be expelled from G20
Will Ukraine war spark a decline in support for authoritarianism? | The Bottom Line
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets
• Ukraine crisis: A look at the facts [Pravda ]
• Russia makes Hunter Biden biolab claim [Russia Today]
• EU ready to new tough sanctions against Russia, Belarus [TASS Russian News Agency]
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National and World News Roundup
• Biden warns of 'real' food shortage following sanctions on Russia [Fox News Channel]
• Weekly jobless claims fall to a nearly 53-year low [CNN] [PDF of Report]
Jobless Claims
Confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Day 4)
• Kentanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearing Collection [SCOTUSblog]
• Trump sues Clinton, DNC over Russia collusion claims in 2016 election [Courthouse News Service]
• President Orders Flags Lowered Through Sunset on March 27th in Honor of Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright [Macon Media]
• N Korea claims successful launch of 'monster missile' Hwasong-17 [BBC News]
• Yemeni officials: Car bomb killed military commander in Aden [AP News]
• Most Americans say Biden is ‘not tough enough’ on Russia, a new poll finds. [New York Times] [Read the Poll]
• Ukraine war spurs Turkey-Armenia normalization [Eurasianet]
• Russian agents charged with targeting U.S. nuclear plant, Saudi oil refinery [Yahoo! NewsE]
• School cafeterias, already on the brink of collapse, brace for end of COVID-era free meals [SOURCE]
Global National: March 24, 2022 | Ukraine's cities in ruin, Russia's forces seemingly stalled
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 24th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 24th, 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 6:58pm CET, 24 March 2022, there have been 474,659,674 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,103,355 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 18 March 2022, a total of 10,925,055,390 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:58pm CET, 24 March 2022, there have been 79,091,857 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 966,570 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 11 March 2022, a total of 541,754,260 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Evidence grows that vaccines lower the risk of getting long COVID [National Public Radio]
• Nearly 75% of U.S. counties lost population last year as deaths outnumbered births, data shows [Washington Post]
• This is no time to stop tracking COVID-19 [Nature]
• Vaccine-induced T cells provide long-lasting immune response to COVID-19 [Doherty Institute]
• Omicron lasts longer on surfaces and skin than previous variants: studies [The Hill]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
· • Intel CEO says semiconductors are like oil — making more in U.S. can avoid global crises [CNBC]
• After 25 years, Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive are still working to democratize knowledge [Nieman Lab]
• Reddit Moves to Control Hate Speech and Misinformation in Two Forums [Time]
• Scientists develop the largest, most detailed model of the early universe to date [MIT News]
• Creative Commons Tells Senators To Stop Using Its Name To Justify Dangerous Copyright Filters Bill [Tech Dirt]
• A locked-in man has been able to communicate in sentences by thought alone [BioTechnology]
• The secret police: Inside the app Minnesota police used to collect data on journalists at protests [Technology Review]
• 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
Level1 News March 25 2022: The Space Station Implication
AI Don't Want to Hurt You - DTNS 4239
#UltimateHomeServer: Building Our Own Spotify Replacement with Navidrome! (March 24, 2022)
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Moon: Mega City (March 24, 2022)
Booster 4 Prepared for Launch Mount Removal | SpaceX Boca Chica
Cordkillers 400 - Don't Smoke in the Hallways
Eye on Icon - Icon Bridge interview
BI 130 Eve Marder: Modulation of Networks
Why Global Supply Chains May Never Be the Same | A WSJ Documentary
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Special Section: Russo-Ukraine Videos
--> Ukraine War special report: soldiers in Kharkiv take on the Russian army - BBC News
🔴 Ukraine War - Large Russian Landing Ship Explodes After Ukrainian Missile Strike In Berdyansk
The Sanction-Fueled Destruction of the Russian Aviation Industry
The war in Ukraine: Meet the people resisting the Russian invasion | Four Corners | ABC (Australia) News (March 21, 2022)
BAYRAKTAR TB2: Turkish drone steals spotlight (March 23, 2022)
Ukraine's forces repair, reuse abandoned Russian equipment (March 21, 2022)
Belarus rebels fight for Ukraine against Russia - BBC News (March 22, 2022)
NATO: President Putin has made a big mistake
Ukrainian counter-attack & photos from the frontline | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast
Booster 4 Lifted From the Orbital Launch Mount | SpaceX Boca Chica
What China's Up To In Space For The Next 5 Years - Major Updates
Using Drones to Break Russian Sieges in Ukraine
All Bling, no Basics - Why Ukraine has embarrassed the Russian Military (March 5th)
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On This Day
March 25th is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 281 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)
421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.
717 – Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
919 – Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
1000 – Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
1409 – The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism.
1519 – Hernando Cortes, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians.
1576 – Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1708 – A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.
1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1821 – Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).
1845 – New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.
1865 – American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1911 – Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair.
1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1919 – The Tetiev pogrom in Ukraine, which become the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust
1924 – On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
1949 – More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
1957 – The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
1959 – Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat", for $5,258.20 ($46,680 in 2020).
1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1971 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
2018 – Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, March 25, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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