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Sunday, August 14, 2022

News and Weather Briefing for Sunday, August 14, 2022



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National News Roundup
COVID-19 News and Updates
Science and Technology
Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
On This Day
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GENERAL OUTLOOK

Temperatures will warm a few degrees and moisture increase early this week as a weak cold front approaches from the northwest, bringing good chance of showers and storms Monday. The front settles south of our area on Tuesday, bringing below normal temperatures that are expected to continue through the end of the week.



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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Tuesday Night





Franklin Area

Today

Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Light and variable winds.

Tonight

A 20 percent chance of showers before midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.

Monday

A 40 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 slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 2am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of rain is 20%.

Tuesday

A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.

Tuesday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.


Highlands Plateau

Today

Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the southwest.

Tonight

A 20 percent chance of showers before midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.

Monday

A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in

thunderstorms.

Monday Night

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of rain between 2am and 5am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 30%.

Tuesday

A slight chance of rain before midmorning, then a chance of showers after 9am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain is 30%.

Tuesday Night

A chance of showers before 1am, then a chance of rain after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Chance of rain is 30%.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Light south wind.

Tonight

A 20 percent chance of showers before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.

Monday

A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.

Monday Night

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers between 10pm and 3am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of rain is 30%.

Tuesday

A slight chance of rain near the midmorning hours,, then a chance of showers after 10am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 30%.

Tuesday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60.


Nantahala Area

Today

Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds.

Tonight

A 20 percent chance of showers before 1am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.

Monday

A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.

Monday Night

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of rain. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of rain is 30%.

Tuesday

A 20 percent chance of showers after noon. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.

Tuesday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60.







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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Hazardous weather is not expected today.





TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK




Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

1. Northwestern Gulf of Mexico:
Shower and thunderstorm activity is limited in association with a broad low pressure area just off the southern Texas coast. Recent satellite wind data and surface observations indicate that the circulation is elongated and winds are not strong at the moment. The disturbance is forecast to continue moving slowly west-southwestward, which should take the system inland over southern Texas later this morning. Although there is some potential for land interaction to cause the disturbance to become better defined while moving onshore, significant development of the system is not anticipated. Regardless of development, heavy rains are forecast across southern Texas through Monday, which could cause localized areas of flash flooding. For more information about the potential for heavy rainfall, please see products issued by your local National Weather Service office and the Weather Prediction Center.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.

What's Up in the Tropics with Mark Sudduth - August 13, 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 theupper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the lower range of yellow.

Fire and Smoke Map




Local Air Monitor



Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range 7.5 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (7.8 out of 12).



Record Weather Events for August 14th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 95°F in Coweeta Experimental Station in 19995
Lowest Temperature 47°F in Coweeta Experimental Station in 1964
Greatest Rainfall 5.34 inches in Highlands in 1893
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 August
Data available from 1873 to 2022

Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 40°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.68 inches in Highlands on 08-13-1940
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

Monthly Averages

Warmest Weather Station 79.7°F Wilmington, New Hanover County
Coldest Weather Station 59.6°F Mount Mitchell, Yancey County
Wettest Weather Station 7.74 in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County
Driest Weather Station 3.12 in Lexington, Davidson County




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Macon Calendar
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Local and State News


• How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending Aug. 11 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• 6 NC law enforcement officers have been shot, 2 fatally, in last three weeks [Raleigh News and Observer]

• Edwards will debate only once during NC-11 contest [Smoky Mountain News]

• JCSO honors, mourns Bryson, a ‘wonderful man and great deputy’ [The Sylva Herald]

• Women’s History Trail sculpture in final stages [Macon County News and Shopping Guide]


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, August 13 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for August 13th]

• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 171 [Al Jazeera]

• Putin’s war sets Russian economy back 4 years in single quarter [Al Jazeera]

Did Ukraine just strike 200km into Crimea? | Funker 530



Satellite images show destroyed Russian warplanes at Crimea airbase | BBC News






JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (Day 148-158)







• Ukraine claims it can hit most Russian supply lines in the south [Al Jazeera]

• Ukraine: No smooth sailing for grain via the Black Sea [DW News]

• Russian tourists to Finland greeted with Ukrainian anthem [France 24]

• Zaporizhzhia nuclear workers: We're kept at gunpoint by Russians [BBC News]

• Meet Putin’s inner circle of evil, from Nikolai Patrushev to Ramzan Kadyrov [New York Post]


News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective

• US ‘on brink’ of war with Russia and China – Kissinger [Russia Today]

• Switzerland between Russia and Ukraine? No, thank you [Pravda ]

• Macron signs protocols on accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO [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

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Man charged after Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage | WGRZ-TV (Buffalo, NY)



• Agent: Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack [AP News]

• In rare move, school librarian fights back in court against conservative activists [NBC News]

• Beaverton Police Nab $22 Million Catalytic Converter Trafficking Ring [Williamette Week (Portland, OR)]

• Listen: Lauren Boebert’s neighbors’ 911 calls describe threats, husband running over mailbox [Denver Post]

• Mexican border cities hit by burning vehicles, blockades [AP News]

• Iran's hardline newspapers praise Salman Rushdie's attacker [Reuters]

• Western Wall: Several injured in Jerusalem shooting [BBC News]

• Economy, history may bar Democrats from keeping control of House [Courthouse News Service]

• Billions in New IRS Funding Won’t Be Easy to Spend [Wall Street Journal]

• Cherry-picked history: Reva Siegel on “living originalism” in Dobbs [SCOTUSblog]

What to Know: Potential Megaflood in California | KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA)




Washington Today (8-12-22): House passes $740B health/climate/tax "Inflation Reduction Act' | C-SPAN



Global National: Aug. 13, 2022 | Salman Rushdie on ventilator after attack, police charge suspect



Nightly News Full Broadcast - August 13


PBS NewsHour Full Episode August 13th, 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 3:10pm CEST, 10 August 2022, there have been 584,065,952 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,418,958 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 9 August 2022, a total of 12,355,390,461 vaccine doses have been administered.

In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 3:10pm CEST, 10 August 2022, there have been 91,149,143 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,023,774 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 5 August 2022, a total of 596,173,194 vaccine doses have been administered.

• A reaction to the CDC guidance [Your Local Epidemiologist]

• High levels of COVID still circulating in Florida: new BA.4.6 is spreading quickly [South Florida Sun Sentinal]

• CDC ends social distancing and contact quarantining Covid recommendations [The Guardia]

• A pandemic worse than COVID-19 could strike within a decade. These steps would help us cope [SBS News (Australia)]

• Prince George’s County Public Schools Brings Back Mask Mandate [dcist (WAMU-FM Washington, BC)]




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Science and Technology News Roundup

• Musings on Art, Brown Dwarfs & Galactic Disks [Centauri Creams]

• Rufus: Microsoft is blocking Windows ISO downloads [ghacks]

• Surprise, Surprise: Subsurface Water On Mars Defies Expectations [SciTechDaily]

• Concrete using recycled tire rubber promises boost for circular economy [Tech Xplore]

• Channel stores are officially the hottest new thing in streaming [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

USS Johnston's Last Stand | Yarnhub



Here’s How The World’s Coolest Charging Station Is Powered! | Out of Spec Reviews



Automations Gone Wrong | Self-Hosted 77 | Jupiter Broadcasting



SpaceX Launches 46 Satellites into Low-Orbit | Voice of America



The Great War Factories Of WWII America | War Factories Complete Series | Timeline



The Simple Secret of Runway Digits | CGP Grey



Running Neural Networks on Meshes of Light | Asianometry



Glory And Defeat - The Franco-Prussian War 1870/71 | Real Time History






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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)

--> Inclusive Kyiv Bakery Feeds Ukrainians Who Experience Food Scarcity | Voice of America



Bodies Of Russian Mercenaries Litter Field After Donetsk Battle With Ukrainian Army | Radio Free Europe



Latest Strike at Antonovskiy Bridge - Ground Impacts and SAM Interceptions | Suchonimus



Is Russia treating Ukrainian war prisoners illegally? | Focus on Europe



Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of nuclear plant strikes | FRANCE 24 English



Calm in Kyiv: Ukrainian capital settles into a new normal | Al Jazeera







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On This Day

August 14 is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 139 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)

74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating the 1127 offences (sexual debauchery, fiscal negligence, cronyism, etc.) that the ministers found the new emperor to have committed over the course of his 27-day rule, result in the unprecedented impeachment — and summary deposition on the same day — of the emperor by the bureaucracy.

29 BC – Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
• [2045th Anniversary of Octavian’s 3 Triumphs (written in 2016) | Latin Language Blog]

1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.

1183 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.

1264 – After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.
• [Battle of Saseno]
• [War of Saint Sabas]

1352 – War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.

1370 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.

1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Aljubarrota]
• [BazBattles: The Battle of Aljubarrota 1385 AD]
• [1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum]

1592 – The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.

1598 – Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

1720 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
• [Wikipedia: Villasur expedition]
• [War of the Quadruple Alliance]
• [A Pawnee perspective on the Villasur Expedition]
• [The Pedro de Villasur Expedition and Some Frenchmen in New Mexico!]
• [An Otoe-Missouria perspective on the Villasur Expedition]

1790 – The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War.

1791 – Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.

1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.

1848 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.

1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.

1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.

1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
• [Battle of Peking (1900)]
• [Boxer Rebellion]
• [Eight-Nation Alliance]
• [History of China: The Boxer Rebellion Explained]
• [55 Days at Peking: The Song of 11 Nations [COMPILATION]]
• [When America, Russia, And Germany Were Allies: The Relief Of Peking (1900)]
• [55 Days at Peking (1963): The Battle of Peking Scene]
• [5 Days at Peking (1963) - Full length movie]
• [The Boxer Rebellion l HISTORY OF CHINA]

1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Gustave Whitehead]
• [Whitehead No. 21]

1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
• [Battle of Lorraine]
• [Battle of the Frontiers]
• [Mountain Combat In The Vosges - The Battle For Alsace-Lorraine I THE GREAT WAR Special]

1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).

1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.
• [Wikipedia: Tillamook Burn]
• [The Tillamook Burn forest fire of August, 1933]
• [Legacy of Fire: The Story of the Tillamook Burn]

1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.

1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Rainey Bethea]
• [Off the Books: Bill Shelton - Rainey Bethea]
• [The Last Public Hanging in the United States]

1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.

1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire.

1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.

1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.

1969 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.

1971 – Bahrain declares independence from Britain

1972 РAn Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near K̦nigs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.

1980 – Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa leads strikes at the GdaÅ„sk, Poland shipyards.

1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Carlos the Jackal]
• [August 14, 1994: World’s Most Famous Hit Man, Carlos the Jackal, Arrested]

1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
• [Northeast blackout of 2003]
• [News coverage of 2003 blackout in New York City: ABC7]
• [CBS News - Northeast blackout - 2003-08-14]

2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew. 2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.

2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people.

2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.

2013 – UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.

2015 – The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.


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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, August 14, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins


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