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OUTLOOK
High pressure will persist 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 by the middle of next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 78. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Light winds out of the south.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 4am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the south 3 to 7 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of ther south 3 to 5 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 4am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 4am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
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.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after midnight. Partly cloudy, 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 (10.4 out of 12) today with Oak, Beech, and Birch being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.6 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for April 23rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 87°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1988
Lowest Temperature 19°F in Highlands in 1903
Greatest Rainfall 5.60 inches in Highlands in 1883
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 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
• 'That happens more often': Bear makes its way into downtown Asheville park [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Officials: Mark Meadows was registered to vote in 3 states [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Pet duck leads to discovery of woman's body under home; suspects charged with murder [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• ICYMI: Our 5-part series on Swain County Sheriff lawsuit [The Graham Star]
• Photos show Cawthorn wearing lingerie at apparent party: Politico [The Hill]
• U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn responds to lingerie photos [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, 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 22 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
• Ukraine Invasion Update #24, (04-22-2022) [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
Ukraine vs Russia - Who wins a war of hardware attrition? | Perun
Ukraine War Report | The Situation Room | NEMICO Network Evening Report (April 22nd, 2022)
Marvelous Russian "Flying Tank" | Operator Starsky
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (April 22nd)
1/ Ukrainian Theater of War, Day 55-57: The past 72 hrs. have seen the Kremlin declare “victory” in Mariupol, with Ukrainian resistance continuing in the Azovstal area. Russia keeps up pressure in the Severodonetsk Salient with only marginal gains. #UkraineRussiaWar #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/H5HE87lgms
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) April 23, 2022
• What Russia’s advance in east Ukraine means for food security [Al Jazeera]
• Ukraine war: How Russia replaces Ukrainian media with its own [BBC News]
• Why isn't Germany supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons? [DW News]
• Support for low income countries following Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Foreign Secretary statement [UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]
• Mariupol holds out while EU calls for the opening of humanitarian corridors [France 24]
• In Obliterated Kharkiv, Ukrainian Survivors Struggle to Hold Out [Wall Street Journal]
• Russian General Lets Slip a Secret Plan to Invade Another Country and Seize Ukraine’s Entire Coastline [Yahoo! News]
• Chechen unit fighting with Russia stands before a burning building and claims it has "cleansed and destroyed" Mariupol. [Recount via Yahoo! News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Russia reveals crew losses from sunken warship [Russia Today]
• What will the world be like after Russia's operation in Ukraine? [Pravda ]
• UN chief to visit Ukraine on April 28 - statement [TASS Russian News Agency]
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• Greene takes stand for hearing on push to bar her from seeking reelection [Courthouse News Service]
Marjorie Taylor Greene hostile in testimony at hearing regarding eligibility to run for reelecton
WATCH LIVE: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene fights court challenge to her reelection
• Person set themselves on fire outside Supreme Court Building, officials say [ABC News]
• Mysterious hepatitis outbreak sickens young children in Europe as CDC probes cases in Alabama [Science.org]
• Tunisian president seizes control of electoral commission [Reuters]
• Trump says he'd rather be 'a dictator' than 'a dumb person' after bragging about the cognitive test he took in 2018 [Business Insider via Yahoo! News]
• NYT reporters say they have more damaging tapes of Kevin McCarthy after releasing audio of him planning to ask Trump to resign over Jan. 6 [Microssoft News]
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 22, 2022 | What are Russia’s objectives after failing to take Kyiv?
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 22nd, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode April 22nd, 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 5:47pm CEST, 22 April 2022, there have been 505,817,953 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,213,876 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 5:47pm CEST, 22 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.
Ep 100 Osterholm Update COVID-19: You Can't Stop the Wind
• N.Y.C. places dozens of school employees on unpaid leave, saying they used fake vaccine cards. [New York Times]
• More companies look to ventilation systems to control the spread of Covid-19 and other viruses [CNN]
• Mask mandates return to US college campuses as cases rise [AP News]
• New omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 on the rise in New England, COVID strain appears to be ‘even more transmissible’ [Boston Herald]
• More than 230,000 U.S. COVID deaths were preventable, analysis finds [AXIOS]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Muons spill secrets about Earth’s hidden structures [Science News]
• Netflix Officially Adding Commercials [Pop Culture]
• Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill revoking Disney’s special district status [CNBC]
• Obama says social media is ‘well designed’ to destroy democracies[Tech Crunch]
FULL CONFERENCE: Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
• American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA and NSA [The Intercept]
• Army To Test Its Biggest Interactive Drone Swarm Ever Over Utah [The Warzone]
• 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
Zero Days Given - DTNS 4260 | Daily Tech News Show
Large Hadron Collider - start of Run 3 | Dave Darling
Scientists Recommend a Mission To Uranus - Deep Space Updates - April 22nd
Potential New Test Tank Aft Dome Flipped | NASA Spaceflight
USB-C iPhones? Thanks, Europe!
Ancient Cities and Landscapes from Space: Remote Sensing and Archaeology
Does the Universe Create Itself?
Traveling Around Other Worlds
The largest comet and the most distant galaxy found! | Night Sky News April 2022
"Don't Look Up" Could Actually Happen | Random Thursday
12 delusions about the future of humanity - utopia transhumanism capitalism space travel - Rob Ager
The Crazy Future If Protons Don't Decay
Audiobook : Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Ukraine vs Russia - Who wins a war of hardware attrition? | Perun
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 23 is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 252 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)
215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
711 – Dagobert III succeeds his father King Childebert III as King of the Franks.
1014 – Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1016 РEdmund Ironside succeeds his father ̠thelred the Unready as King of England.
1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
1500 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches new coastline (Brazil).
1516 – The Munich Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria.
1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
1655 – The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
1660 – Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1879 – Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
1891 – Chilean Civil War: The ironclad Blanco Encalada is sunk at Caldera Bay by torpedo boats.
1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
1919 – The Estonian Constituent Assembly was held in Estonia, which marked the birth of the Estonian Parliament, the Riigikogu.
1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
1927 – Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz: German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
1945 РWorld War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor, Hermann G̦ring, sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of Nazi Germany. Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Hitler that the telegram is treasonous.
1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
1951 – Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
1999 – NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2005 – The first YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.
2013 – At least 28 people are killed and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
2018 – A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
2019 – The April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse in Myanmar kills four miners and two rescuers.
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Published at 4:00am on Saturday, April 23, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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