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OUTLOOK
A cold front will cross the region from the west today, bringing a brief round of moisture to the area. Dry and cooler high pressure will follow the front later tonight through Wednesday night, with temperatures then steadily recovering late week into the weekend. Rain chances will increase by late this weekend and into the beginning of the following workweek.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 5pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 69. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy frost after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 37. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
Wednesday
Areas of frost before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 70. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 40. Light north wind.
Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 74.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Increasing clouds, with a high near 64. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 38. North northwest wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 63. North wind 6 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with a low around 40. North northwest wind around 7 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 66.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Increasing clouds, with a high near 69. Calm wind becoming north northwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 40. North wind around 9 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 69. North wind 5 to 9 mph.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with a low around 42. North northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 73.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 48.
Nantahala Area
Today
Showers likely, mainly between 8am and noon. Patchy fog between 9am and 11am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a high near 62. West northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 39. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with a low around 42. Calm wind.
Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 68.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 49.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Widespread showers are expected to develop in the Carolina mountains ahead of a cold front on Tuesday. A handful of thunderstorms may develop as well, and any that do will be capable of producing gusty winds, large hail, and frequent cloud- to- ground lightning.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
Below is the 24 hour High Resolution Rapid Refresh from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction for our area. It runs from 2am EDT today to EDT tomorrow.
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 upper range of green .
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (4.6 out of 12) today with Oak, Beech, and Birch being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (10.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for April 26th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin in 1986
Lowest Temperature 23°F in Highlands in 1919
Greatest Rainfall 3.24 inches in Highlands in 1939
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snow has fallen on this date since records started being kept)
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
Macon County Board of Education | April 2022
• Threats increase: More than half a dozen WNC schools locked down in 3-week span [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Suspension of ginseng harvest permits will continue, Wild ginseng levels are too low for sustainable harvest [Macon Media]
• Mysterious NC hepatitis cases in children puzzle doctors [WTVD.TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• New GOP-funded attack ad calls Rep. Madison Cawthorn a liar [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Democrats, Republicans target vulnerable Cawthorn in NC-11 [Smoky Mountain News]
• One year after freeze, farmers, scientists talk the future of WNC apples [Mountain Xpress]
• Will hunting in WNC bear sanctuaries be reversed? NC Rules Commission makes decision [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• 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 25 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
• Ukraine Invasion Update #24, (04-22-2022) [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
Russian offensive shows no sign of slowing down in Ukraine | ABC Nightly News
UN chief embarks on Moscow trip amid criticism | Al Jazeera
Marvelous Russian "Flying Tank" | Operator Starsky
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (April 22nd)
@Paragondvp
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
• Blasts hit ministry in Moldova’s Transnistria, near Ukraine [Al Jazeerra]
• Estonian PM Kaja Kallas: 'Our neighbor's problems today are our problems tomorrow' [DW News]
• War in Ukraine: The village with Russia and Belarus on its doorstep [BBC News]
• Kyiv Symphony Orchestra: 'Voice of Ukraine' tour comes to Germany [DW News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Hunter Biden told brother’s widow to get HIV test – Fox [Russia Today]
• Russia loses interest in Japan's opinion on Kuril Islands [Pravda ]
• Putin, Guterres to meet in Moscow [TASS Russian News Agency]
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• Two Russian oligarchs and their families found dead within 24 hours [CNN]
• U.S. Stocks Finish Volatile Session With Gains [Wall Street Journal]
• Macron’s Win Is Also a Blow to Viktor Orban’s Nationalist Crusade [New York Times]
• The Satanic Temple sues elementary school as after-school club rejected [Global News]
• DeSantis signs bill creating new Florida election police force [CNN]
• Judge finds Donald Trump in contempt in New York legal fight [AP News]
• Trump SPAC is down 44% since Elon Musk disclosed Twitter stake [CNN]
• High school football coach who prayed at midfield gets warm reception from some justices [The Salt Lake tribune]
• School coach who wants game-time prayer time makes Supreme Court inroads [Courthouse News Service]
• Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist. (ORAL ARGUMENT) [Supreme Court]
Supreme Court Weighs Case Of Washington Coach Asked Not To Pray On The Field
Global National: April 25, 2022 | US ramps up rhetoric against Russia amid war in Ukraine
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 25th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode April 25th, 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 5:22pm CEST, 25 April 2022, there have been 507,501,771 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,220,390 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 5:22pm CEST, 25 April 2022, there have been 80,174,978 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 983,872 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 15 April 2022, a total of 552,480,933 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19 [National Library of Medicine]
• Unvaccinated people increase risk of COVID-19 infection among vaccinated: study [Global News]
• Covid was third-leading cause of death in U.S. once again in 2021 [NBC News]
• COVID pill to be widely available soon, White House says [AXIOS]
• Ruby Princess cruise ship docked in San Francisco with 143 cases of COVID-19 [CBS News]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
Ax-1 Mission | Return
• First private mission to the ISS splashes down off Florida coast [The Verge]
• Private Ax-1 astronauts return to Earth, ending historic SpaceX mission [Space.com]
Done deal: Elon Musk buys Twitter | Fox News
• Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal [CNBC/a>]
• Some high-profile Twitter users say they're done with the platform after its deal with Elon Musk, but most don't appear to be going anywhere [Yahoo! FInance]
• Large Hadron Collider restarts [CERN]
• Fake reviews to be illegal under new rules [BBC News]
• Microsoft is finally adding Teams to its own store [The Verge]
• Ford beefs up F-150 Lightning production in a forceful bid to dominate the electric pickup market [CNBC]
• An easier way to teach robots new skills [MIT News]
• 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
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
Live Level1News - Come chat and hang out 5:00 pm eastern
Mr. Musk Buys The Bird - DTNS 4261
Cordkillers 405 - The Everything/Nothing Store (w/ Merrill Barr)
What does the James Webb Use to See the Universe? | Curious Droid
SpaceX Starfactory Construction Continues Apace | Starship Boca Chica
How The James Webb Space Telescope Will Unfold The Universe | John C. Mather | TED
A Beacon in the Galaxy to Message ET w/ Dr. Jonathan Jiang, Kristen Fahy, and Stuart Taylor | Event Horizon
The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History | Veritasium
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
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This Map Helps Explain Why the Russia-Ukraine War Hasn’t Ended
How the Czech Republic is supporting Ukraine's fight against Russia
Putin can't resist interfering in the military planning' | James Heappey
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On This Day
April 26 is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 249 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)
1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe.
1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
1607 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
1900 – Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. 12,000 people are left without a home.
1903 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
1915 – World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.
1920 – Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.
1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
1933 – Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the amount of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1954 – The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1962 – The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
1966 – The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
1982 – Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1989 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1989 – People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
1991 – Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
1993 – The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
1994 – South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
2002 – Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2005 – Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
2015 – Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote.
2018 – American comedian Bill Cosby is convicted of sexual assault.
2019 – Marvel Studios' blockbuster film, Avengers: Endgame, is released, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the previous box office record of Avatar.
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Published at 4:00am on Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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