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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Seasonably hot and muggy conditions will continue, with heat index rising above 100 in the Piedmont each of the next few afternoons under a hot high pressure ridge. Isolated or widely scattered showers and thunderstorms return this afternoon. Better chances for afternoon storms return Monday into Wednesday as a weak front enters the region from the northwest.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph before noon. Chance of rain is 30%.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then isolated showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%.
Monday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after noon. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds becoming west southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the middle afternoon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then isolated showers between 9pm and 11pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the middle afternoon. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 1pm and 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then isolated showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after noon. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the middle afternoon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Isolated showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then isolated showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Monday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after noon. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Light winds out of the southwest. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 1pm and 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 80. Light west southwest winds. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
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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 Sun Jul 24 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 23, 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 3.3 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Nettle being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for July 24th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 95°F in Franklin in 1983
Lowest Temperature 44°F in Highlands in 1904
Greatest Rainfall 2.93 inches in Franklin in 1997
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
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
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Local and State News
• Cawthorn Campaign Illegally Spent Funds It Wasn’t Supposed to Touch [Daily Beast]
• NC wastewater data shows 55% increase in COVID particles in one week [WRAl-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• 17 arrested in Haywood County multi-agency investigation, including multiple drug charges [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Read the Mark Meadows texts from latest January 6 hearing; 'got to condemn this s--- ASAP' [SOURCE]
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 23 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for July 21st]
Why does the world need grain to be shipped from Ukraine? | BBC News
• Last Stand at Azovstal: Inside the Siege That Shaped the Ukraine War [New York Times]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 150 [Al Jazeera]
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (Day 124-148)
Jomini is back after having had COVID. --editor
1/ Ukraine SVKO, Day 124-148. Russian Strategic Aerospace Operations (SVKO) remains focused east of the Dnieper River, particularly in north central Donetsk Oblast and along the Black Sea Coast in the Odesa region. #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/koHmL4scEX
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) July 24, 2022
• Ukraine urges citizens to reveal Russian troops locations [Al Jazeera]
• US says strike on Odesa 'casts serious doubt' on Moscow's credibility [DW News]
• Russia speaks of expanding Ukraine mission despite realities on the ground [France 24]
• Russia Strikes Odessa Port After Signing Deal to Unblock Ukrainian Grain Exports [Wall Street Journal]
• Why does the world need grain to be shipped from Ukraine? [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Ukraine grain deal signed: Why it matters [Russia Today]
• If US declares Russia state sponsor of terrorism, Ukraine will cease to exist [Pravda ]
• Kherson Region creates election committee for referendum on joining Russia [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
• WHO Declares Monkeypox a Global Health Emergency [Wall Street Journal]
• Amid so many shootings, a movement to make tourniquet training as common as CPR [Courthouse News Service]
• We Need to Keep Building Houses, Even if No One Wants to Buy [New York Times]
• FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications [CNN]
• Governor declares emergency over wildfire near Yosemite [AP News]
Global National: July 23, 2022 | How ER closures across Canada are leaving people vulnerable
Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 23
PBS NewsHour Full Episode July 23rd, 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.
How about getting vaccinated again against coronavirus? | COVID-19 Special DW News
• COVID-19 'is going to be with us forever,' White House says [Yahoo! News]
• NC wastewater data shows 55% increase in COVID particles in one week [WRAl-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Association Between Vaccination and Acute Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Stroke After COVID-19 Infection [JAMA Network (be sure to open the tabs on the right sidebar)]
• Scientists are narrowing in on why some people keep avoiding Covid. BA.5 could end that luck. [NBC News]
• White House Says President Biden Improving From Covid [NBC News (video)]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Big Tech is bracing for a possible recession, spooking other industries [Washington Post]
• When Light and Electrons Spin Together: Advancing Toward Petahertz Electronics Based on Quantum Materials [SciTechDaily]
• First electric nanomotor made from DNA material[PHYS.ORG]
• None America News: OAN Will Be Stranded After Discarded by Verizon [Gizmodo]
• Does the Past Still Exist? [Back Reaction]
• 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
Does the Past Still Exist? | Sabine Hossenfelder
My Pet Weaver Ants REACT to Their First Meal Ever (Experiment) | Ants Canada
Tips and Tricks for Neopixels Projects (Arduino, ESP8266/ ESP32) | Andreas Spiess
What Colonialism Did For Taiwan (& Japan) | Asianometry
TWiV 920: Science will break your heart | Microbe TV (with a live audience)
207: SCaLE 19x, RISC-V Laptop, Unreal Engine 5, Asahi Linux, System76 and more Linux news! | This Week in Linux
DeepMind: The Quest to Solve Intelligence | Neura Pod – Neuralink
Why does the world need grain to be shipped from Ukraine? | BBC News
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> A Ukrainian family makes a new start in Germany | Focus on Europe DW News
Russia hits key Odesa port day after landmark grain deal: Ukraine | Al JAzeera
Moscow confirms deal to reopen Ukraine's Black Sea ports for grain exports | Channel NewsAsia
Russia-Ukraine war: Warring sides sign grain export deal | Al Jazeera
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On This Day
July 24th is the 205th day of the year (206th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 160 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)
1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Damascus]
1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf, the larget trebucht ever made.
• [Wikipedia: Warwolf]
• [Outlaw King: Siege of Sirlin] (dramatization of Warwolf in action)
• [Wikipedia: Sieges of Stirling Castle]
• [Wikipedia: First War of Scottish Independence]
• [World record trebuchet at Warwick Castle]
• [How to Build a Trebuchet | MythBusters]
1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Harlaw]
1412 – Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her one-year-old son James VI.
1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1783 – The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
• [Wikipedia: Treaty of Georgievsk]
1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
1823 – Afro-Chileans are emancipated.
1823 – In Maracaibo, Venezuela, the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
1847 – Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
• [Wikipedia: Second Battle of Kernstown]
• [NPS VIDEO: The Second Battle of Kernstown - July 24, 1864]
1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
• [Wikipedia: SS Eastland]
• [The Eastland Disaster: New look at 100-year-old tragedy]
• [SS Eastland Disaster – Terrifying last Moments on the Ship]
1922 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1924 – Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
• [Wikipedia: Kellogg–Briand Pact]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [Five Things You Should Know About the Paris Peace Pact]
1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.
• [Wikipedia: Dust Bowl]
• [History Brief: the Dust Bowl]
• [Lessons from the Dust Bowl w/ Ken Burns (Live YouTube Event)]
• [The Dust Bowl - 01 - The Great Plow Up]
• [The Dust Bowl - 02 - Reaping the Whirlwind]
1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
• [Wikipedia: Kitchen Debate]
• [Nixon vs. Khrushchev - The Kitchen Debate (1959)]
• [The Kitchen Debate and the Soda Pop Navy]
1963 – The ship Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
• [Apollo 11 in Real Time] (press the blue button)
• [Apollo 11 Splashdown: Celebrating 50 years, live stream]
1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
• [Washington Post]
• [Wikipedia: United States v. Nixon]
• [Nixon on handing over tapes (video)]
• [Tapes handed over to federal court (video)]
1977 – End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
1987 – US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
1987 – Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2001 – The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy.
2012 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê.
2013 – A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.
2014 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people onboard are killed.
2021 Thousands of demonstrators protest COVID-19 lockdown orders in Australia
• [The Hill]
• [Global News (video)]
• [Reuters (video)]
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, July 24, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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