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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

News and Weather Briefing for Wednesday, April 6, 2022



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Almanac
Macon Calendar
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Russo-UKrainian War Updates
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Science and Technology
Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
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OUTLOOK

Showers and thunderstorms return to the area this afternoon and evening as a cold front moves through tonight. In the wake of this front, well below normal temperatures are expected into the weekend. A warming trend brings temperatures back above normal early next week.

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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Thursday Night





Franklin Area

Today

Today

A slight chance of showers in the early afternoon, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 20%.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 3am, then a chance of showers. Patchy fog before 2am, then patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. WInds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Thursday

Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Light winds out of the northwest increasing to 10 to 20 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming light winds after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph in the early evening hours.

Friday

A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Light and variable winds increasing to come out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.

Friday Night

A 20 percent chance of showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30.

Highs lands Plateau

Today

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 9pm and 2am. Patchy dense fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Thursday

Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Friday

A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 10am, then a chance of rain showers. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the west 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 40%.

Friday Night

A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 9pm, then a slight chance of snow showers between 9pm and 1am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s. Chance of rain is 20%.

Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2am. Patchy fog before 2am, then patchy fog after 4am. Lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Thursday

Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Friday

A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph shifting to come out of the northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Friday Night

A 20 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30.

Nantahala Area

Today

A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 2pm and 4pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Light winds out of the southwest increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 20%.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms before 1am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm, then a chance of showers after 2am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog before 2am, then patchy fog after 4am. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of teh southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Thursday

Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Thursday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph decreasing and shifting to come out of the west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph in the early evening hours.

Friday

A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.

Friday Night

A chance of rain showers, possibly mixing with snow after 1am, then gradually ending. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Chance of rain and snow is 30%.







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Hazards and Tropical Weather



Thunderstorms are expected to develop and move across the area late this afternoon into the evening. Some of these storms will be severe, with damaging winds, large hail, and isolated tornadoes possible.

Longer Term Hazards

Periods of very windy conditions are expected Friday through Saturday night.




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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




Local Air Monitor



Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (8.1 out of 12) today with Maple, Oak, and Elm being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.3 out of 12).




Record Weather Events for April 6th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 85°F in Franklin in 1967
Lowest Temperature 14°F in Highlands in 1920
Greatest Rainfall 3.05 inches in Highlands in 1936
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inches in Highlands in 1931

Record weather events for March in Macon County

Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of April Data available from 1873 to 2018 Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 04-26-1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands on 04-01-1987
Greatest Rainfall 7.00 inches in Highlands on 04-07-1895
Greatest Snowfall 9.5 inches in Franklin on 04-04-1987

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

• Poultry shows and public sales suspended until further noticed due to High Path Avian Influenza [Macon Media]

• City of Raleigh implementing $50 surcharge for unvaccinated employees on its healthcare plan [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• Vance Monument: N.C. Court of Appeals rules in favor of Asheville [Asheville Citizen-Times]

• Fast moving brushfire in Maggie contained thanks to firefighting efforts and rain [Smoky Mountain News]

• NC town accused of mishandling funds recently violated open meetings law, state officials say [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• Wake Sheriff settles lawsuit with former employee over wrongful termination claim [Raleigh News and Observer]

• One of Asheville's main water sources catches eye of Biden administration [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• Photos and video of the 2022 Vietnam Veterans Day Observance in Franklin, NC [Macon Media]


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.


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.




• Interactive map: average date of last spring freeze across the United States [Climate.gov]


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Special Section: Russo-Ukrainian War Updates
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(Longer videos are in the Russo-Ukraine Videos section)



• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 5 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]

• Ukraine Invasion Update 21 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for the Invasion Update 21]

Russia Redeploys to Eastern Ukraine, Kyiv Stands; Day 41 (FNN Live)







Bucha Massacre: Brief Update on the Genocide of Ukrainians (04-04-2022)



• Ukrainians recall surviving suspected Russian war crimes in Bucha [NBC News]

• Yellen to Warn of ‘Enormous Economic Repercussions’ From Ukraine Invasion [New York Times]

Ukraine warns of full-scale Russian attack in eastern regions | DW News



• Teen sisters 'raped' as horrors from Ukrainian town cut off for 35 days emerge | ITV News [Youtube]

• Ukraine’s Zelensky Calls for Removing Russia From U.N. Security Council After Alleged War Crimes [Wall Street journal]

Hundreds more civilians feared dead in towns near Kyiv - BBC News



• Russia-Ukraine war: In Chinese media, the US is the villain [Al Jazeera]

• Merkel 'stands by' past Ukraine NATO decision after Zelenskyy criticism [DW News]

• Bucha killings: 'I wish they had killed me too' [BBC News]


News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets

• EU to send investigators to probe alleged war crimes in Ukraine [Russia Today]

• Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on the way to terminate their ties with Russia [Pravda ]

• German foreign ministry decides to expel 40 Russian embassy employees [TASS Russian News Agency]


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National and World News Roundup

• US government launches Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy [SOURCE]

• Twitter shares close up 27% after Elon Musk takes 9% stake in social media company [CNBC]

• Fox Captured After Congressman, Woman Bitten Outside US Capitol [WRC-TV (Washington, DC)]

• Graham says the quiet part out loud with warning to Dems on future nominations [Courthouse News Service]

• States look for solutions as US fentanyl deaths keep rising [AP News]

• Tenth person charged with Florida voter fraud investigation over jailhouse registrations [Florida Politics]

• Gas theft ring in Florida stole at least $60K of fuel from stations to resell at half-price, sheriff says [NBC News]

Global National: April 5, 2022 | Zelenskyy questions UN's purpose if it won't act against Russia



PBS NewsHour Full Episode April 5th, 2022





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COVID-19 News and Updates

Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes 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 8:46pm CEST, 5 April 2022, there have been 490,853,129 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,155,344 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 4 April 2022, a total of 11,183,087,530 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 8:46pm CEST, 5 April 2022, there have been 79,426,860 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 974,431 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 1 April 2022, a total of 546,128,894 vaccine doses have been administered.

• We need to be developing vaccines for the next pandemic — right now [Vox]

• Covid had devastating toll on poor and low-income communities in US [The Guardian]

• Multisystem screening reveals SARS-CoV-2 in neurons of the myenteric plexus and in megakaryocytes [The Journal of Pathology]

• America Is Staring Down Its First So What? Wave [The Atlantic]

• Glasses and risk of COVID-19 transmission - analysis of the Virus Watch Community Cohort study. [MedRxiv (PDF)]




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Science and Technology News Roundup

• Elon Musk to join Twitter's board, says 'significant improvements' are coming [NBC News]

• Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting ‘offensive’ tweet [The Verge]

• Emirates Airbus A380 breaks speed record, accidentally goes supersonic [Aerotime Hub]

• Immune 54: Asthma and aging [Microbe TV]

• Raspberry Pi News: Production and supply-chain update [Raspberry Pi Foundation]

• Elon Musk becomes Twitter’s largest shareholder [Financial Times]

• Alphabet's Wing will begin drone deliveries in Dallas-Fort Worth on April 7th [Engadget]

• US government launches Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy [SOURCE]

• First private astronaut mission to space station readies for launch [Reuters]

• An algorithm makes it possible to identify people by their heartbeat [University Carlos III of Madrid]

• See all the products Microsoft has murdered since 1992 [Fast Company]

• Your Digital Footprint: It's Bigger Than You Realize [CNET]

• A Power Button For Raspberry Pi, Courtesy Of Device Tree Overlays [Hackaday]

• Truth Social misses another deadline as users report waitlist issues [AXIOS]

• 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 April 6 2022: Just Destroy It ✓



Chris Blattman: War and Violence | Lex Fridman Podcast #273



Perplexed Streaming - DTNS 4247



A Chip Off The Old Spot - DTNS 4246



Cordkillers 402 - Your Mom's Boyfriend's Ice Cream (w/ Lamarr Wilson)



JPL and the Space Age: The Changing Face of Mars



The newest Raspberry Pi is a bit strange...



Fall of Bataan - Pacific War #20 DOCUMENTARY



How Japan Managed To Launch Rockets Into Orbit Without Steering



Booster 7 First Cryogenic Proof Test | SpaceX Boca Chica



Booknotes+ Podcast: University of Virginia Student Emma Camp on Self-Censorship at College



New Booster Aft Dome Lifted Onto the Sleeving Stand | SpaceX Boca Chica






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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)

--> Ukraine Sits On Raw Materials Worth Trillions. The Country's Chance for Reconstruction?



How Putin's Invasion is Changing Our World Forever



Why is Russia Like That? - Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Cold War



Zelensky tells UN that Russia must be expelled from Security Council • FRANCE 24 English



Is Russia committing atrocities in Ukraine? | Inside Story







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On This Day

April 6 is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 269 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)




46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.

402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.

1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.

1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.

1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.

1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.

1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.

1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.

1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.

1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.

1800 – The Treaty of Constantinople establishes the Septinsular Republic, the first autonomous Greek state since the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. (Under the Old Style calendar then still in use in the Ottoman Empire, the treaty was signed on 21 March.)

1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

1812 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.

1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.

1830 – Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York.

1841 – U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become president upon William Henry Harrison's death.

1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.

1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.

1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia, during the Appomattox Campaign.

1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.

1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.

1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.

1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).

1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.

1918 – Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere ends.

1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).

1929 – Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.

1930 – At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."

1936 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.

1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).

1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

1945 – World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.

1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

1968 – In the downtown district of Richmond, Indiana, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.

1968 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Party leadership election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon afterward.

1970 – Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.

1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.

1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.

1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.

1992 – The Bosnian War begins.

1994 РThe Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juv̩nal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

1997 – In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occur.

1998 – Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.

2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

2008 – The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.

2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.

2010 – Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.

2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves.

2012 – Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.

2017 – U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties.

2018 – A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others.

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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, April 06, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins


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