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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 Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 90. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 65. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 90. Light and variable winds.
Sunday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Monday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 90. Chance of rain is 40%.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%.
Monday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 50%.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 90. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 90. Light and variable winds.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Monday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain is 40%.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Monday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Chance of rain is 40%.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly 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 Sat Jul 23 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 22, 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-medium range 3.7 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Nettle being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.6 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for July 23rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 96°F in Franklin in 1952
Lowest Temperature 44°F in Highlands in 1915
Greatest Rainfall 2.89 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1970
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
• WRAL Investigates: Hundreds of millions in hurricane recovery money still unspent [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Masks are now advised indoors in half of NC counties, according to CDC guidance [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Crews taking on storm debris cleanup in Haywood County this weekend; volunteers welcome [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Mud daubers use tough mountain environments to their advantage [The Sylva Herald and Ruralite]
• The NC Department of Motor Vehicle Implements New Way to Avoid Waiting in Line [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 22 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for July 21st]
Jets to Ukraine? | Combat Footage Live Review | FUNKER530
• Ukraine’s Zelensky Says a Cease-Fire With Russia, Without Reclaiming Lost Lands, Will Only Prolong War [Wall Street Journal]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 149 [Al Jazeera]
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (Day 124-148)
Jomini is back after having had COVID. --editor
1/ Ukrainian TVD, Day 124-148. Late June to mid-July has seen a host of developments throughout the Ukrainian Theater of Military Action. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (VSRF) have managed to secure the Luhansk Oblast but struggle to produce results on other fronts. pic.twitter.com/p635NmO3v6
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) July 22, 2022
• Russia and Ukraine sign grain export deal: What you should know [Al Jazeera]
• Ukraine’s Zelensky Says a Cease-Fire With Russia, Without Reclaiming Lost Lands, Will Only Prolong War [Wall Street Journal]
• Ukraine war: Deal signed to allow grain exports to resume by sea [BBC News]
• Russia Repeatedly Strikes Ukraine’s Civilians. There’s Always an Excuse. [New York Times]
• Invasion Day 148 – Summary [Military Land]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Ukraine to punish own citizens for getting Russian passports [Russia Today]
• Moldova may lose Gagauzia as its people accept no Westernization [Pravda ]
• US to deliver four more HIMARS, up to 580 drones to Ukraine — White House [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
WATCH: Every Jan. 6 committee hearing, explained | PBS Newshour
• Steve Bannon found guilty in Jan. 6 contempt of Congress trial [NBC News]
• The Jan. 6 Panel After 8 Hearings: Where Will the Evidence Lead? [New York Times]
• What will happen with Chile’s radical draft constitution? [Courthouse News Service]
• Exclusive: Hyundai subsidiary has used child labor at Alabama factory [Reuters]
• Monkeypox virus could become entrenched as new STD in the US [AP News]
• A radical plan for Trump’s second term [Axios]
Global National: July 22, 2022 | Canadians dying in emergency rooms from previously avoidable deaths
Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 22
PBS NewsHour Full Episode July 22nd, 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 7:12pm CEST, 22 July 2022, there have been 565,207,160 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,373,739 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 19 July 2022, a total of 12,219,375,500 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 7:12pm CEST, 22 July 2022, there have been 88,920,929 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,015,897 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 15 July 2022, a total of 591,276,330 vaccine doses have been administered.
• COVID-19 'is going to be with us forever,' White House says [Yahoo! News]
• SARS-CoV-2 reinfections in a US university setting, Fall 2020 to Spring 2021 [BMC Infectious Diseases]
• COVID-19 could cause long term peripheral nerve demyelination and axonal loss: A One Year Prospective Cohort Study [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• COVID Virus May Tunnel through Nanotubes from Nose to Brain [Scientific American]
• Operation Nasal Vaccine—Lightning speed to counter COVID-19 [Science: Immunology]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• US Air Force connects 1,760 PlayStation 3's to build supercomputer [PHYS.ORG]
• VW Board Ousts CEO Herbert Diess After Pivot to Electric Vehicles [Wall Street Journal]
• World’s Oldest Murder Mystery Was 430,000 Years in the Making [National Geographic]
• Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits [ARS TECHNICA]
• What record-low water levels at the Hoover Dam reservoir look like from space [The Verge]
• 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 Scientist Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions | Veritasium
Why Build A PC - DTNS 4322 | Daily Tech News Show
Phobos seen by Tianwen-1 | SciNews
TWiV 921: COVID-19 clinical update #124 with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
Ben Narasin on raising a new VC fund in a down market, + Natalie Barbu of Rella | This Week in Startups E1515
Raptor Engines on the Move at the Production Site | SpaceX Boca Chica
Industrial Control System Cyberthreats | TWIT-TV
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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
US says Russia is taking hundreds of casualties daily | Ukraine Update | DW News
Russia-Ukraine war: Warring sides sign grain export deal | Al Jazeera
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On This Day
July 23 is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 161 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 5:00am on Saturday, July 23, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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