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OUTLOOK
Showers associated with a cold front crossing the Carolinas will continue through the first part of today before high pressure dominates this weekend through the middle of next week. Beginning Tuesday, a low chance of diurnal showers will be possible, with minimal severe risk.
• Today, Friday, May 27, all Jackson County Public Schools, NC are CLOSED due to significant flooding across the area. It is an OPTIONAL TEACHER WORKDAY.
• As of 4:20am, an announcement has not been made regarding schools in Macon County. If this changes, the new information will be posted here and on Macon Media's Facebook, Twitter, and Mewe accounts.
• Lowering Flags to Honor the Victims of the Tragedy in Uvalde, Texas
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A slight chance of showers before 8am, then a chance of showers after 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the southwest in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A slight chance of showers before 8am, then a chance of showers after 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the southwest wind early in the morninmg increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
The Flood Advisory for Macon County has been extended until 8am and the Flood Watch is in effect until noon today.
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
222 AM EDT Fri May 27 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...Portions of northeast Georgia, western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina, including the following areas, in northeast Georgia, Habersham and Rabun. In western North Carolina, Avery, Buncombe, Burke Mountains, Caldwell Mountains, Eastern McDowell, Eastern Polk, Graham, Greater Burke, Greater Caldwell, Greater Rutherford, Haywood, Henderson, Macon, Madison, McDowell Mountains, Mitchell, Northern Jackson, Polk Mountains, Rutherford Mountains, Southern Jackson, Swain, Transylvania and Yancey. In Upstate South Carolina, Greenville Mountains, Oconee Mountains and Pickens Mountains.
* WHEN...Until Noon EDT today.
* IMPACTS...Ongoing flooding continues in many southern North Carolina mountain communities. Additional heavy rainfall at rates of one-quarter to one-half inch per hour, combined with excessive runoff from earlier rainfall, may result in further flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Area creeks and streams are already running high and could easily flood with any more heavy rainfall.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Many parts of the watch area have received 2 to 5 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, with a few locations in the southern mountains already above 6 inches. Areas of moderate to heavy rain showers with embedded thunderstorms will continue and additional flooding may develop while ongoing flooding worsens. An additional inch or two of rainfall will be possible through daybreak in the most prone locations to southerly upslope flow.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Rainfall of more than five inches in similar storms has been associated with an increased risk of landslides and rockslides. If you live on a mountainside or in a cove at the base of a mountain, especially near a stream, be ready to leave in advance of the storm or as quickly as possible should rising water, moving earth, or rocks threaten. Consider postponing travel along mountain roads during periods of heavy rainfall.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Fri May 27 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
There are no expected smoke fields to be crossing Macon County today, so no map was produced.
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 4.4 out of 12) today with Grasses, Mulberry, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (7.0 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for May 27th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 89°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2012
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Highlands in 1961
Greatest Rainfall 2.88 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1981
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Record weather events for May in Macon County
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of May Data available from 1873 to 2018 Highest Temperature 92°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-20-1996
Lowest Temperature 23°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-02-1963
Greatest Rainfall 5.97 inches in Highlands on 05-30-2018
Greatest Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands on 05-07-1992
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
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Friday and Saturday, May 27th and 28th 26th Annual Swain County Heritage Festival [Facebook Event Page]
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Local and State News
• Gov. Cooper calls for assault weapons ban. What NC lawmakers have proposed on guns. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Jackson County under state of emergency amid flooding [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Decade since NC governor win, McCrory trounced in Senate bid [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)E]
• Memorial Day 2022 offers a chance to return to tradition [The Sylva Herald]
• Local historians reflect on the Vance Monument, one year after its removal [Mountain Xpress]
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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, May 26 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for May 25th]
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (May 14th)
• 'Putin must not win this war,' Germany's Olaf Scholz tells Davos [DW News]
• Should the war in Ukraine spur a nuclear security rethink? [France 24]
• Pro-Russian ex-president of Moldova placed under house arrest [Al Jazeera]
• As Russian Forces Retreated, Mock Executions and Beatings Increased in Ukraine [Wall Street Journal]
• The crime team going after sanctioned oligarchs' 'cleaners' [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Ukraine admits major defeat [Russia Today]
• Germany wants to go back to coal and fuel oil. Greta Thunberg does not care [Pravda ]
• Putin visits wounded Russian servicemen in military hospital in Moscow [TASS Russian News Agency]
Weekly Update --- What's Biden's End Game in Ukraine? | Ron Paul Liberty Report
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National and World News Roundup
• Documents Shed Light on Secret U.S. Plans for Apocalyptic Scenarios [Microsoft News]
Suspect dead after police-involved shooting near Toronto school
• Officials say Texas gunman entered unimpeded as anger mounts over police response [France 24]
• Defense rests in trial of Democrat-linked lawyer accused of lying to FBI [Courthouse News ServiceE]
• Texas police defend 'complex' shooting response as more details emerge [Yahoo! News]
• FBI identifies man accused of racial attacks and mosque threats in Michigan [Detroit Free Press]
• Parole recommended for California follower of Charles Manson [ABC News]
• Lake Mead water level running well below predictions, could drop another 12 feet by fall [CNN]
• FAA Inspector Took 'Money and Hookers' To Ignore Violations [AIN Online]
Roe v Wade Opinion Leak (Read the Draft Opinion for Yourself)
Read the leaked your at Google Drive or below:
ABC News Special Report: Texas Department of Public Safety provides update on Uvalde school massacre
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott calls Uvalde school shooting "intolerable"
'Why is this happening?' Beto O'Rourke reacts after getting removed from Abbott Uvalde presser
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responds to Beto O'Rourke crashing Uvalde shooting presser
False and disturbing conspiracy theories spread online about Uvalde gunman | CBS News
Global National: May 26, 2022 | Police under scrutiny for response to Uvalde, Texas school shooting
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - May 26th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode May 26th, 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]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:01pm CEST, 26 May 2022, there have been 82,678,161 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 995,391 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 20 May 2022, a total of 575,410,180 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:43pm CEST, 24 May 2022, there have been 82,418,967 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 994,530 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 13 May 2022, a total of 572,739,524 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Covid-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people ages 0-19 years in the United States [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• The unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policy: why mandates, passports and restrictions may cause more harm than good [The British Medical Journal (PDF)]
• Virological characteristics of the novel SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants including BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 [BioRxiv (PDF)]
• Scientists explain why getting infected with omicron doesn't protect you from other COVID variants [KABC-TV (Los Angeles, CA)]
• 75 Percent of People with Long COVID Were Not Hospitalized Initially: What That Means [Healthline]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal [CNBC]
• World’s largest vats for growing ‘no-kill’ meat to be built in US [The Guardian]
• Garuda Linux: All-Rounder Distro Based on Arch Linux [Debug Point]
• Researchers Urge China to Develop Ways to Destroy Starlink Satellites [PC MAgazine]
• Researchers use quantum computers to optimize ray-tracing workload by nearly 200 percent, but real-life applications remain distant [Notebook Check]
• 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 May 27 2022: C.R.E.A.M. (Cheese)
Get Me To The Vertiport - DTNS 4284 | Daily Tech News Show
Go up SpaceX's Starship-catching robotic launch tower with Elon Musk! | Everyday Astronaut
Where Does the Candle Wax Go? | SciShow
Terrifying Tornado Experience - May 23, 2022 | Pecos Hank
How Was the Modern Milky Way Born? | PBS Space Time
What Was The First Black Hole? | History of the Universe
How to Measure The Universe One Step At A Time | Scott Manley
The Forbidden Attack Against a Dark Nazi Secret Base
World War Zero - The Russo Japanese War 1904-1905 | The Great War
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> NATO’s unity in the war in Ukraine: Real or an illusion? | The Bottom Line
Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘genocide’ in Donbas | FRANCE 24 English
Fighting rages in east of Ukraine | BBC News
How China Turned the Ukraine War Into a Propaganda Opportunity | WSJ
Finland's foreign minister on possibly joining NATO and the war in Ukraine
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On This Day
May 27 is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 218 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)
1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199 – John is crowned King of England.
1257 – Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.
1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
1679 - Habeas Corpus Act passes in England, strengthening a person's right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1876- Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia
1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history
1915 – HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.
1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1940 - World War II{ British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later. Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered in retaliation.
1950 – The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.
1958 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1984 – The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
1988 – Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.
1995 - Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia
1996 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
• [Yeltsin in Paris to sign NATO agreement]
• [NATO-Russia Founding Act Signing | White House]
• [NATO-Russia Founding Act | US Dept of State Archives]
1997 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo
2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2006 – The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
2017 – Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2018 – Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
2020 - America's COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 (Johns Hopkins figures) equal to number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan put together
2020 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Hong Kong no longer has autonomy from China, doesn't merit special trade relationship, in note to Congress
2020 - Locust swarms in western and central India worst since 1993 after spreading from Pakistan and Iran and due to extreme weather
2021 - French President Emmanuel Macron recognizes France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali, Rwanda
2021 - US President Joe Biden calls for a ceasefire in the Tigray conflict, north Ethiopia, citing killings and "widespread sexual violence" as a weapon of war
2021 - English playwright William Shakespeare reported to have died after receiving COVID-19 vaccine by Argentine news channel Chanal 26 (case of mistaken identity, the Bard died in 1616)
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Published at 4:30am on Friday, May 27, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A slight chance of showers before 8am, then a chance of showers after 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the southwest in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A slight chance of showers before 8am, then a chance of showers after 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the southwest wind early in the morninmg increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
The Flood Advisory for Macon County has been extended until 8am and the Flood Watch is in effect until noon today.
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
222 AM EDT Fri May 27 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...Portions of northeast Georgia, western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina, including the following areas, in northeast Georgia, Habersham and Rabun. In western North Carolina, Avery, Buncombe, Burke Mountains, Caldwell Mountains, Eastern McDowell, Eastern Polk, Graham, Greater Burke, Greater Caldwell, Greater Rutherford, Haywood, Henderson, Macon, Madison, McDowell Mountains, Mitchell, Northern Jackson, Polk Mountains, Rutherford Mountains, Southern Jackson, Swain, Transylvania and Yancey. In Upstate South Carolina, Greenville Mountains, Oconee Mountains and Pickens Mountains.
* WHEN...Until Noon EDT today.
* IMPACTS...Ongoing flooding continues in many southern North Carolina mountain communities. Additional heavy rainfall at rates of one-quarter to one-half inch per hour, combined with excessive runoff from earlier rainfall, may result in further flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Area creeks and streams are already running high and could easily flood with any more heavy rainfall.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Many parts of the watch area have received 2 to 5 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, with a few locations in the southern mountains already above 6 inches. Areas of moderate to heavy rain showers with embedded thunderstorms will continue and additional flooding may develop while ongoing flooding worsens. An additional inch or two of rainfall will be possible through daybreak in the most prone locations to southerly upslope flow.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Rainfall of more than five inches in similar storms has been associated with an increased risk of landslides and rockslides. If you live on a mountainside or in a cove at the base of a mountain, especially near a stream, be ready to leave in advance of the storm or as quickly as possible should rising water, moving earth, or rocks threaten. Consider postponing travel along mountain roads during periods of heavy rainfall.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Fri May 27 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
There are no expected smoke fields to be crossing Macon County today, so no map was produced.
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 4.4 out of 12) today with Grasses, Mulberry, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (7.0 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for May 27th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 89°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2012
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Highlands in 1961
Greatest Rainfall 2.88 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1981
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Record weather events for May in Macon County
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of May Data available from 1873 to 2018 Highest Temperature 92°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-20-1996
Lowest Temperature 23°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-02-1963
Greatest Rainfall 5.97 inches in Highlands on 05-30-2018
Greatest Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands on 05-07-1992
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
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Friday and Saturday, May 27th and 28th 26th Annual Swain County Heritage Festival [Facebook Event Page]
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Local and State News
• Gov. Cooper calls for assault weapons ban. What NC lawmakers have proposed on guns. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Jackson County under state of emergency amid flooding [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Decade since NC governor win, McCrory trounced in Senate bid [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)E]
• Memorial Day 2022 offers a chance to return to tradition [The Sylva Herald]
• Local historians reflect on the Vance Monument, one year after its removal [Mountain Xpress]
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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, May 26 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for May 25th]
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (May 14th)
1/ Ukrainian TVD, Day 80-88. The past 9 days has seen one of the most fluid periods to date in the Russo-Ukrainian War. The most significant developments have been the surrender of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol & the Russian breakthrough around Popasna. #UkraineRussiaWar #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/QWI1lEQdWn
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) May 24, 2022
• 'Putin must not win this war,' Germany's Olaf Scholz tells Davos [DW News]
• Should the war in Ukraine spur a nuclear security rethink? [France 24]
• Pro-Russian ex-president of Moldova placed under house arrest [Al Jazeera]
• As Russian Forces Retreated, Mock Executions and Beatings Increased in Ukraine [Wall Street Journal]
• The crime team going after sanctioned oligarchs' 'cleaners' [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Ukraine admits major defeat [Russia Today]
• Germany wants to go back to coal and fuel oil. Greta Thunberg does not care [Pravda ]
• Putin visits wounded Russian servicemen in military hospital in Moscow [TASS Russian News Agency]
Weekly Update --- What's Biden's End Game in Ukraine? | Ron Paul Liberty Report
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National and World News Roundup
• Documents Shed Light on Secret U.S. Plans for Apocalyptic Scenarios [Microsoft News]
Suspect dead after police-involved shooting near Toronto school
• Officials say Texas gunman entered unimpeded as anger mounts over police response [France 24]
• Defense rests in trial of Democrat-linked lawyer accused of lying to FBI [Courthouse News ServiceE]
• Texas police defend 'complex' shooting response as more details emerge [Yahoo! News]
• FBI identifies man accused of racial attacks and mosque threats in Michigan [Detroit Free Press]
• Parole recommended for California follower of Charles Manson [ABC News]
• Lake Mead water level running well below predictions, could drop another 12 feet by fall [CNN]
• FAA Inspector Took 'Money and Hookers' To Ignore Violations [AIN Online]
Roe v Wade Opinion Leak (Read the Draft Opinion for Yourself)
Read the leaked your at Google Drive or below:
ABC News Special Report: Texas Department of Public Safety provides update on Uvalde school massacre
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott calls Uvalde school shooting "intolerable"
'Why is this happening?' Beto O'Rourke reacts after getting removed from Abbott Uvalde presser
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responds to Beto O'Rourke crashing Uvalde shooting presser
False and disturbing conspiracy theories spread online about Uvalde gunman | CBS News
Global National: May 26, 2022 | Police under scrutiny for response to Uvalde, Texas school shooting
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - May 26th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode May 26th, 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]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:01pm CEST, 26 May 2022, there have been 82,678,161 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 995,391 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 20 May 2022, a total of 575,410,180 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:43pm CEST, 24 May 2022, there have been 82,418,967 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 994,530 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 13 May 2022, a total of 572,739,524 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Covid-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people ages 0-19 years in the United States [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• The unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policy: why mandates, passports and restrictions may cause more harm than good [The British Medical Journal (PDF)]
• Virological characteristics of the novel SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants including BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 [BioRxiv (PDF)]
• Scientists explain why getting infected with omicron doesn't protect you from other COVID variants [KABC-TV (Los Angeles, CA)]
• 75 Percent of People with Long COVID Were Not Hospitalized Initially: What That Means [Healthline]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal [CNBC]
• World’s largest vats for growing ‘no-kill’ meat to be built in US [The Guardian]
• Garuda Linux: All-Rounder Distro Based on Arch Linux [Debug Point]
• Researchers Urge China to Develop Ways to Destroy Starlink Satellites [PC MAgazine]
• Researchers use quantum computers to optimize ray-tracing workload by nearly 200 percent, but real-life applications remain distant [Notebook Check]
• 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 May 27 2022: C.R.E.A.M. (Cheese)
Get Me To The Vertiport - DTNS 4284 | Daily Tech News Show
Go up SpaceX's Starship-catching robotic launch tower with Elon Musk! | Everyday Astronaut
Where Does the Candle Wax Go? | SciShow
Terrifying Tornado Experience - May 23, 2022 | Pecos Hank
How Was the Modern Milky Way Born? | PBS Space Time
What Was The First Black Hole? | History of the Universe
How to Measure The Universe One Step At A Time | Scott Manley
The Forbidden Attack Against a Dark Nazi Secret Base
World War Zero - The Russo Japanese War 1904-1905 | The Great War
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> NATO’s unity in the war in Ukraine: Real or an illusion? | The Bottom Line
Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘genocide’ in Donbas | FRANCE 24 English
Fighting rages in east of Ukraine | BBC News
How China Turned the Ukraine War Into a Propaganda Opportunity | WSJ
Finland's foreign minister on possibly joining NATO and the war in Ukraine
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On This Day
May 27 is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 218 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)
1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199 – John is crowned King of England.
1257 – Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.
1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
1679 - Habeas Corpus Act passes in England, strengthening a person's right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1876- Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia
1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history
1915 – HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.
1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1940 - World War II{ British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later. Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered in retaliation.
1950 – The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.
1958 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1984 – The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
1988 – Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.
1995 - Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia
1996 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
• [Yeltsin in Paris to sign NATO agreement]
• [NATO-Russia Founding Act Signing | White House]
• [NATO-Russia Founding Act | US Dept of State Archives]
1997 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo
2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2006 – The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
2017 – Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2018 – Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
2020 - America's COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 (Johns Hopkins figures) equal to number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan put together
2020 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Hong Kong no longer has autonomy from China, doesn't merit special trade relationship, in note to Congress
2020 - Locust swarms in western and central India worst since 1993 after spreading from Pakistan and Iran and due to extreme weather
2021 - French President Emmanuel Macron recognizes France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali, Rwanda
2021 - US President Joe Biden calls for a ceasefire in the Tigray conflict, north Ethiopia, citing killings and "widespread sexual violence" as a weapon of war
2021 - English playwright William Shakespeare reported to have died after receiving COVID-19 vaccine by Argentine news channel Chanal 26 (case of mistaken identity, the Bard died in 1616)
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Published at 4:30am on Friday, May 27, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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