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OUTLOOK
High pressure will set up along the East Coast over the next several days, giving our region a warming trend through the weekend and into Monday. A cold front will approach from the west on Monday night and cross the area on Tuesday. Dry high pressure, and cooler temperatures, will return to the region mid to late next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Calm winds.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 6 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
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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 (10.5 out of 12) today with Oak, Beech, and Birch being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.8 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for April 22nd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 87°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1963
Lowest Temperature 21°F in Highlands in 1901
Greatest Rainfall 2.13 inches in Highlands in 1931
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
• Want to vote in the NC primaries? Voter registration ends Friday [WYVD-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• ‘Corners getting cut.’ NC nursing home insiders share firsthand stories of patient neglect [Raleigh News and Observer]
• NC GOP Senate candidates tangle over education, 2020 election results [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• ICYMI: Our 5-part series on Swain County Sheriff lawsuit [The Graham Star]
• Both AdventHealth and HCA plan to apply to bring 67 more hospital beds to Buncombe County [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• 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 21 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
Thousands still stuck inside steel plant in Mariupol as Putin claims victory over the city | DW News
Marvelous Russian "Flying Tank" | Aperator Starsky
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
• Germany plans workaround for arms deliveries to Ukraine [DW News]
• War in Ukraine threatens geopolitical balance in the Arctic [France 24]
• Ukraine round-up: Putin backs off storming of Azovstal as Mariupol 'mass graves' found [BBC News]
• Russian Oil Sales Jump, but It’s Harder to See Who’s Buying [Wall Street Journal]
• A picture and its story - A daughter's shock as a trip to buy bread ends her father's life [Reuters via Yahoo! News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Mark Zuckerberg barred from Russia [Russia Today]
• What is Ukraine and where are its borders? [Pravda ]
• Russia to secure nuclear-free, neutral status of Ukraine - Russian diplomat [TASS Russian News Agency]
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• Cheney, Zelensky among 2022 JFK Profile in Courage Award winners [The Hill]
• Israel adds China's yuan for the first time ever while cutting its dollar holdings from 66.5% to 61% in biggest currency reshuffle in a decade[Yahoo! News]
• Climate change and Russia's war in Ukraine help push Somalia to the brink of famine [Yahoo! News]
• Fed’s Jerome Powell Seals Expectations of Half-Point Rate Rise in May [Wall Street Journal]
• Disney to Lose Special Tax Status in Florida Amid ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Clash [New York Times]
• Colorado Dem gov slams DeSantis for ‘socialist attacks’ on Disney, GOP gov hits back at ‘baseless allegations’ [Fox News Channel]
Biden announces new round of military, economic aid to Ukraine | ABC World News Tonight
• Football coach at Supreme Court could tip return of prayer in public schools [Courthouse news Service]
Global National: April 21, 2022 | Moscow claims control over Mariupol as Ukrainians remain trapped
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 21st, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode April 21st, 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 5:50pm CEST, 20 April 2022, there have been 504,079,039 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including Globally, as of 6:19pm CEST, 21 April 2022, there have been 505,035,185 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,210,719 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 18 April 2022, a total of 11,324,805,837 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:19pm CEST, 21 April 2022, there have been 80,006,661 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 982,322 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 15 April 2022, a total of 552,480,933 vaccine doses have been administered.
• SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort Study of 23 Million Residents [JAMA Network]
• Woman, 31, catches Covid twice within three weeks in Spain [The Guardian]
• Quarter of U.S. covid deaths were probably preventable with vaccination [Washington Post]
• Why COVID headaches can be hard to shake — and when you should worry [CBC]
• New Antiviral Pills Help Treat Covid. Here’s How to Get Them. [New York Times]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
NASA's Perseverance Rover Sees Solar Eclipse on Mars
• Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting down CNN+ [AXIOS]
• Good News for a Gravitational Focus Mission [Cantauri Dreams]
• HBO and HBO Max added 13 million subscribers last year, as Netflix’s growth slowed [The verge]
• Google Is Cracking Down On Third-Party Call Recording [Gizmodo]
• The Case for a New Frontiers–Class Uranus Orbiter: System Science at an Underexplored and Unique World with a Mid-scale Mission [The Planetary Science Journal]
• Students with Dark Triad traits don’t feel responsible for their own learning, making them more likely to cheat [The British Psychological Society Research Digest]
• Trilobite-inspired neural nanophotonic light-field camera with extreme depth-of-field [Nature Communications]
• The Midwest has lost 57 billion metric tons of topsoil over the last 160 years, new study finds [Iopwa Public Radio]
• 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 22 2022: The Touch, The Feel, Of Robots
Waymo, You Can Drive My Car! - DTNS 4259 | Daily Tech News Show
Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering | Lex Fridman Podcast #278
• Lifeboat, The New Yorker Documentary [The New Yorker]
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starlink 4-14 Mission
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, April 21 for a Falcon 9 launch of 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The instantaneous launch window is at 11:14 a.m. ET, or 15:14 UTC, and a backup opportunity is available on Friday, April 22 at 10:53 a.m. ET, or 14:53 UTC.
The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched GPS III-3, Turksat-5A, Transporter 2, and eight Starlink missions. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth and land on the Just Read the Instructions droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
A live webcast of this mission will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff.
Lego Themed Raptor 2 Engines Delivered | SpaceX Boca Chica
Audiobook : Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
TWiV 891: LLOV in the time of Ebola
Elke, Adam, and Gabor join TWiV to discuss their work on Lloviu virus, a filovirus, including recovery of infectious virus from a DNA copy of the genome and from Schreiber's bats in Hungary.
Show notes at [Microbe TV]
#226 - Social Media and Scanning | Scanner School
EP 20 A Republic Lost at Sea | Hardcore History Addendum
Exploit Wednesday - Windows 11 Taskbar, Windows on ARM, Surface Laptop Go 2
Easy for Schmidt to Say | Coder Radio 461
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Secrets Of Statecraft: The View From Next Door: John O'Sullivan On The War In Ukraine
Ukrainian President Zelensky Addresses World Bank
Thousands still stuck inside steel plant in Mariupol as Putin claims victory over the city | DW News
Has Russia taken the Ukrainian city of Mariupol? - BBC News
Vladimir Putin Claims Mariupol Has Been 'Liberated', Russian Army Blocks Azovstal Plant | India Today
Gravitas: This Russian missile can destroy any target on earth | WION
What to expect in the next phase of Russia’s war
War on Ukraine “will be a disaster for Russia,” says founder of War on the Rocks | Government Matters
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On This Day
April 22 is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 253 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)
238 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas.
1622 – The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.
1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1876 – The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
1889 – At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.[4]
1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
1944 – World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces.
1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
1969 – The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
1974 – Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
1992 – A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.
1993 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.
2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
2016 – The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
2020 – Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.
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Published at 2:30am on Friday, April 22, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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