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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Friday Night
Clear, with lows around 50.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Areas of frost before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the south 3 to 6 mph.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Light and variable winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs near 71.
Friday Night
Clear, with lows around 49.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the southeast increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the eveninfg becoming light after midnight.
Thursday
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the early morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Friday Night
Clear, with lows around 51.
Nantahala Area
Today
Areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the east 3 to 8 mph.
Thursday
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.
Friday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
A Freeze Warning is in effect until 9am this morning. A copy of the warning is posted below for your convenience.
Freeze Warning
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
1004 PM EDT Tue Apr 19 2022
..FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM EDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected.
* WHERE...Madison, Buncombe and Henderson Counties.
* WHEN...From 2 AM to 9 AM EDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above- ground pipes to protect them from freezing.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the lower range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the upper range of yellow .
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (11.2 out of 12) today with Oak, Sweetgum, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.2 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for April 20th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 87°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2002
Lowest Temperature 17°F in Franklin in 1983
Greatest Rainfall 3.09 inches in Highlands in 1893
Greatest Snowfall 1.5 inches in Highlands in 1901
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
• Highlands Mayor declares April the month to financially help Ukrainians [Plateau Daily News]
• Watch dashcam video of Congressman Cawthorn’s March traffic stop in NC [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Updates from April 19 Buncombe County commissioners meeting; Several items approved [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• City of Raleigh approves 2% cost-of-living adjustment for full-time employees [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Local officials share concerns regarding NC’s proposed Children and Families Specialty Plan [The Southern Scoop]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners - April 2022 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• 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 19 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
Let's talk about Eastern Ukraine.... | Beau of the Fifth Column
Scholz tries to dodge criticism over Ukraine heavy weapons deliveries | DW News
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (April 19th)
1/ Ukrainian Theater of War, Day 52-54: The past 72 hrs. have seen Russian forces reduce Ukrainian defenses in Mariupol to the Azovstal area. Ukrainian forces around Kharkiv launch several successful counterattacks while Russia builds forces near Izium. #Ukraine #UkraineInvasion pic.twitter.com/Oy7ClGza3l
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) April 19, 2022
Let’s talk: Q&A, News, Recent Updates (04-18-2022) | Operator Starsky
• IMF slashes global growth outlook amid Ukraine war [DW News]
• Ukraine war: Kyiv's allies pledge more weapons to help win war [BBC News]
• Mariupol, in Ruins, Still Looms Large for Russia and Ukraine [Wall Street]
• Day 55: Russia Declares New Phase of War as Forces Clash in East [New York Times]
• Russian forces seize Kreminna in eastern Ukraine, says governor [Al Jazeera]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Ukraine receives aircraft support from US allies [Russia Today]
• More than 100 civilians leave Azovstal basements [Pravda ]
• Diplomat calls out West for using Ukrainians as ‘cannon fodder’ against Russia [TASS Russian News Agency]
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• ‘Using citizenship as a weapon’ Myanmar military targets critics [Al Jazeera]
• Macron, Le Pen accused of vetoing 'tenacious' reporter from moderating high-stakes debate [France 24]
• DeSantis proposes dissolving special tax status for Disney World [Washington Post]
• Texas judge orders Alex Jones to pay $1M in legal fees for Norwalk native, 4 Sandy Hook parents [CT Insider]
• 'Freedom Convoy' leader Pat King charged with perjury, obstruction of justice [CTV News]
Russia foreign minister declares next phase of Ukraine invasion | ABC News
Global National: April 19, 2022 | Russia escalates attacks in attempt to seize Ukraine's Donbas
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 19th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode April 19th, 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 5:40pm CEST, 19 April 2022, there have been 503,131,834 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,200,571 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 18 April 2022, a total of 11,324,243,310 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:40pm CEST, 19 April 2022, there have been 79,896,146 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 981,415 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 15 April 2022, a total of 552,480,933 vaccine doses have been administered.
• With Joy and Fear, Americans Watch Sweeping Mask Rules Vanish [New York Times]
• Accelerated biological aging in COVID-19 patients [Nature]
• Thus spoke peptides: SARS-CoV-2 spike gene evolved in humans and then shortly in rats while the rest of its genome in horseshoe bats and then in treeshrews [Communicative and Integrative Biology]
• The judge who tossed mask mandate misunderstood public health law, legal experts say [NPR]
• A new version of omicron is gaining a foothold in the U.S., CDC finds [NBC News]
• Bosses Don't Follow Their Own Advice in Returning to the Office [Bloomberg]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• A ‘cautionary tale’ about location tracking [University of Rochester]
• Schedule effects of SLS rollback still uncertain [Space News]
• Netflix Explores a Version With Ads as Subscriber Base Shrinks [Wall Street Journal]
• Netflix estimates 100 million households are sharing passwords and suggests a global crackdown is coming [CNBC]
• One-on-one with the Air Force’s cyber chief [The Record]
• Self-driving cars: Motorists will not be liable for crashes and can watch TV behind the wheel, government says [Sky News]
• What is ‘Web3’? Here’s the vision for the future of the internet from the man who coined the phrase [CNBC]
• Sending a probe to Uranus labeled as top priority by space science community [The Verge]
• 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 20 2022: The Inescapable Drone Of Advertising
People Just Want To GO Shopping - DTNS 4257 | Daily Tech News Show
Flying vehicles of the future: Companies racing to develop eVTOL "air taxis"
Recycled By Google - Passkeys, Pixel 6a at the FCC, Pixel Watch getting real, hyperlocal weather
Raptor V2 Engine 42 Delivered | SpaceX Boca Chica
Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Meet the Russian Siloviki - Putin's inner circle | Caspian Report
Ukrainians wait in line to buy stamps featuring soldier | ABC News
Ukraine: Russia begins new eastern offensive | DW News
Ukraine War: First civilians killed in Lviv as Russia extends attacks westwards | Sky News
Conflicting accounts over sinking of Russia's flagship Moskva | Al Jazeera
UN agency says more than 100,000 civilians in Mariupol on verge of famine | FRANCE 24 English
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On This Day
April 20 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 255 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1453 – Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
1496 – After his return from the New World Christopher Columbus entered the court of his sponsors King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. For more than an hour, the sovereigns besieged the seaman with questions.
1534 – Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
1535 – The sun dog phenomenon is observed over Stockholm, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1689 – Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
1770 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 – The Septinsular Republic is established.
1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
1828 – René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter (and the first to return from) Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing.
1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
1861 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina.
1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
1876 – The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.
1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
1945 – World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1961 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
1972 – Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.
1998 – Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
2007 – Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
2012 – One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
2015 – Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
2021 – State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.
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Published at 4:00am on Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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