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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Seasonally hot and muggy conditions will continue. A front will become stationary over our area and slowly dissipate as it moves north as a warm front through Saturday. The weekend will see reduced chances for afternoon thunder as a hot upper level ridge noses into our region from the west. Expecting better chances for afternoon storms late Monday into Wednesday as another weak cold front settles across the area.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Sunny, with highs in the lower 90s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable before midnight.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A slight chance of showers between 1pm and 4pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs near 90.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Scattered thunderstorms are possible each afternoon and evening in the area this weekend into next week. Some storms each day could become strong to severe capable of producing gusty winds, frequent lightning, and heavy rainfall, however no widespread severe threat is anticipated.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Fri Jul 22 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
What's Up in the Tropics with Mark Sudduth - July 21, 2022
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
No smoke fields will be crossing Macon County today, no map was produced.
Air quality is in thelower range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range 1.9 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Nettle being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.76 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for July 22nd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 97°F in Franklin in 1952
Lowest Temperature 46°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1947
Greatest Rainfall 2.24 inches in Highlands in 1979
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of July
Data available from 1873 to 2022
Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on 07-29-1952
Lowest Temperature 34°F in Highlands on 07-27-1911
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on 07-29-1879
Greatest Snowfall no measurable snowfall has been recorded since records started being kept in 1873
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
• Stein's campaign seeks to block law enabling ad probe [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Researchers try growing new tobacco variety in the mountains[WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Great Smokies beloved spot needs wastewater system overhaul amid $245M maintenance backlog [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Additional flooding causes full Greenbrier closure [Smoky Mountain News]
• The NC Department of Motor Vehicle Implements New Way to Avoid Waiting in Line [Macon Media]
• Rep. Gillespie Legislative Newsletter Volume XXVI [Macon Media]
State Budget Details
• NC Budget Table of Contents [Google Drive (PDF)]
• NC House Bill 103: 2022 Appropriations Act [Google Drive (PDF)]
• Joint Conference Committee Report on the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2022 [Google Drive (PDF)]
• House Bill 103 Information and Voting History [NC General Assembly Website]
• Raises for state employees, preparations for recession, in proposed state budget [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
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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, July 21 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for July 21st]
Jets to Ukraine? | Combat Footage Live Review | FUNKER530
WH: Russia using 'annexation playbook' in Ukraine | Associated Press
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 148 [Al Jazeera]
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (Day 98-107)
Jomini of the West has bewen hit hard by COVID, but will be posting a new thread soon --editor
1/ Ukrainian TVD, Day 108-123. Mid-June has seen the Russian Armed Forces maintain their operational momentum and make important gains in the Donbas while the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to press their counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast. #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar pic.twitter.com/5MnyYOaUbz
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) June 28, 2022
• Ukraine, Russia poised to sign grain export deal [DW News]
• Timeline: Week 21 of Russia’s war in Ukraine [Al Jazeera]
• Deal for Ukraine grain exports due to be sealed in Istanbul [France 24]
• Russia Resumes Nord Stream Natural-Gas Supply to Europe [Wall Street Journal]
• Russia 'looting' steel bound for Europe and UK, says Metinvest boss [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Ukraine should ‘confiscate’ Russian gas – politician [Russia Today]
• Expert reveals the real reason why the US supplies HIMARS to Ukraine [Pravda ]
• Russia adds Greece, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia to its unfriendly countries list [TASS Russian News Agency]
The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
Eighth Hearing on Investigation of Capitol Attack | C-SPAN
• Jan. 6 probe says Trump 'gleefully watched' while riots unfolded [DW News]
• Watchdog launches criminal probe over missing Secret Service messages [Washington Post]
• President Biden tests positive for Covid-19, has mild symptoms [CNBC]
• Congressman Lee Zeldin attacked during campaign event [WHEC-TV (Rochester, NY)]
• Amtrak train's deadly collision with dump truck in Missouri caused $4 million in damages, NTSB report says [CNN]
Washington Today (7-21-22): POTUS tests positive for COVID-19, has 'very mild symptoms' | C-SPAN
Global National: July 21, 2022 | Health workers warn Canada's health system is "collapsing"
Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 21
PBS NewsHour Full Episode July 21st, 2022
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
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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:
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
Globally, as of 5:46pm CEST, 15 July 2022, there have been 557,917,904 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,358,899 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 12 July 2022, a total of 12,130,881,147 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:46pm CEST, 15 July 2022, there have been 88,027,926 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,012,816 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 8 July 2022, a total of 589,664,214 vaccine doses have been administered.
• 'COVID has evolved now to be so contagious' Omicron subvariant causing cases to spike in NC [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• After COVID-19, experts say watch for these potential heart and brain problems [American Heart Association]
• LA Businesses Criticize Looming Return of Mask Mandate, Saying It Should Be Voluntary [KNBC-TV (Los Angeles, CA)]
• In COVID-19 Omicron patients, high blood pressure doubles risk of hospitalization [Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy]
• Meet the covid super-dodgers [Washington Post]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• NASA images show extreme withering of Lake Mead over 22 years [The Guardian]
• ‘I’m Calling About Your Auto Warranty’: FCC Says No More, Orders Spam Block [Bloomberg]
• YouTube Will Remove Videos With Abortion Misinformation [Variety Magazine]
• FCC chair tries to find out how carriers use phone geolocation data [ARS TECHNICA]
• Mark Zuckerberg will have to give a 6-hour deposition about Cambridge Analytica as part of a class-action lawsuit [Business Insider]
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Lamplight TV]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
The Level1 Show July 22 2022: Putting the "P" in Poison
How I Met Your 3D Printer - DTNS 4321 | Daily Tech News Show
Linux Action News 250 | Jupiter Broadcasting
What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe? | PBS Space Time
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Jets to Ukraine? | Combat Footage Live Review | FUNKER530
Ukraine War Report | UK To Send More Weapons | Day 148 - NEMICO NETWORK
Russia pounds Kharkiv after expanding war aims | DW News
Russia says objectives in Ukraine war have expanded | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Power shift on Ukraine’s frontlines? | Binkov's Battlegrounds
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On This Day
July 22nd is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 162 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)
811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Pliska]
• [Wikipedia: First Bulgarian Empire]
• [Micahistory 2: The Battle of Pliska]
• [Kings and Generals: Pliska 811 - Byzantine - Bulgarian Wars]
1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Chios (1319)]
1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1677 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
1793 – Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1813 – Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
1821 – While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Asia Minor's coasts.
1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
1881 – The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
1885 – President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
1919 – Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana
1921 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1942 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1967 – Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
1968 – Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
1980 – Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
1982 – Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
1983 – Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
1999 – Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2010 – English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s.
2012 – The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
2014 – TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
2015 – NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
2016 – Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
2018 – A wildfire in East Attica, Greece caused the death of 102 people. It was the deadliest wildfire in history of Greece and the second-deadliest in the world, in the 21st century, after the 2009 bushfires in Australia that killed 180.
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Published at 5:10am on Friday, July 22, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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