News and Weather Briefing for Monday, July 26, 2021

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OUTLOOK

A backdoor cold front brings active weather today and tomorrow. Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible both days with the main concern being isolated flooding or flash flooding due to heavy downpours. Isolated strong to severe storms with the potential for damaging wind gusts also cannot be ruled out. Otherwise, drier and hotter weather is in store middle of the week. Heat indices could reach the triple digits in the far southern and southeastern zones Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Another cold front could impact the area late this week into this weekend bringing shower and thunderstorm chances back into the forecast.




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Local News

Macon County Board of Education, July 2021



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Macon County Board of Commissioners, July 2021



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Franklin Town Council - July 2021



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Local Weather

National Weather Map for Today

General forecast through Wednesday Night


Franklin area

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tuesday

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 90.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-60s.

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Highlands Plateau

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm by midmorning. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 1am, then a slight chance of showers. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tuesday

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 80.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s.

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Otto area

Today  



Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after 10pm. Lows in the upper 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tuesday

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the upper 80s.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-60s.

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Nantahala area

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tuesday

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid-80s.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-60s.

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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Jul 26 2021

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

1. Satellite and radar data indicate that shower and thunderstorm activity associated with a low pressure system located about 45 miles east of St. Augustine, Florida, or about 75 miles southeast of Jacksonville, Florida, remain disorganized and limited in coverage. Environmental conditions are gradually becoming less conducive for a tropical depression to develop before the low moves inland over northeastern Florida or Georgia later this morning. However, interests in these areas should continue to monitor the progress of this system due to the possibility of brief periods of gusty winds to 40 mph, locally heavy rainfall, and dangerous lightning strikes.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent.

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Almanac

Air Quality

Air quality is in the lower range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the lower range of yellow.

Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)

Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.0 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Nettle being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.1 out of 12).


Weather Extremes for Macon County on July 16th


Highest Temperature 94°F in Franklin in 1987
Lowest Temperature 39°F in Highlands in 1911
Greatest Rainfall 3.06 inches in Highlands in 1943
Greatest Snowfall (No snowfall recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)

July Weather Extremes for Macon County

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 1872

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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)

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The Macon County Art Association (a not for profit member organization) is offering classes in encaustic painting on Specified Fridays from 10AM-12PM at the Uptown Gallery 30 E Main St Franklin NC. Specific class dates are Friday July 9 and 23, August 3 and 27, September 3 and 17, October 29.

For more information contact the instructor, Karen Smith, at karen@programservices.org

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National News Roundup

WeatherBrains 809: For God’s Sake Take Cover



Audio version and links to items discussed in podcast [LINKTEXT]

Pelosi taps Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger for January 6 select committee



Yonkers Officers Rescue Mom and Baby

Wildfires Reach More Communities in the West



PBS NewsHour full episode, July 25th, 2021

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COVID-19 News and Updates

Since it looks like we may be in for a new wave of infections, here is a section on COVID-19. It will include local, regional, state, national, and global items.

Dr. Anthony Fauci On Cases Surging Around The Country



Fauci: CDC Actively Considering Changing Mask Guidance as Delta Fuels COVID Surge [NBC New York]

Anti-intellectualism and the mass public’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic [Nature]

New face mask prototype can detect Covid-19 infection [MIT News]

Dendritic cell deficiencies persist seven months after SARS-CoV-2 infection [Nature]

MVC COVID-19 Vaccine Obtains Taiwan EUA Approval [MVC Press Release]

SARS-CoV-2 Restructures the Host Chromatin Architecture [BioRxiv]

NFL to fine unvaccinated players $14,650 for violating COVID-19 protocols [Axios]

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On This Day

July 26th is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 158 days remain until the end of the year.



Historical Events

(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)


657 – First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Siffin]
• [Wikipedia: First Fitna]
• [Muslim Schism: How Islam Split into the Sunni and Shia Branches] (Kings and Generals)
• [The Battle that changed Humanity FOREVER - Siffin Series (Part 1)] [Part 2]
• [The Fitna [Al-Jamal And As-Siffin]]

811 – Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
• [Battle of Pliska]
• [Bio: Nikephoros I]
• [Bio: Staurakios]

920 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at the Battle of Valdejunquera.
• [Battle of Valdejunquera]

1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.

1469 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.
• [Battle of Edgcote]
• [Tudors Dynasty Podcast - Understanding the Wars of the Roses]
• [Wars of Roses 1455-1487 - English Civil Wars] (Kings and Generals)

1509 – The Emperor Krishnadevaraya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
• [Vijayanagara Empire]
• [Rise and Fall of the Vijayanagar Empire | History of Medieval India]
• [Bharat Ek Khoj 28: The Vijayanagar Empire] (English subtitles via the closed caption button)

1529 – Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
• [Bio: Francisco Pizarro]
• [Pizarro In Peru]
• [Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire | 3 Minute History]
• [Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru (FULL Audiobook)]

1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): The northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
• [Act of Abjuration]
• [Dutch Revolt]
• [Ten Minute History - The Dutch Revolt (Short Documentary)]

1703 – During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
• [Bavarian Rummel]
• [War of the Spanish Succession]
• [War of the Spanish Succession | Animated History]

1745 – The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.

1758 – French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
• [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Postmaster General July 26, 1775, to November 1776] (USPS PDF)
• [Benjamin Franklin: Postmaster General]
• [Ben Franklin and the U.S. Postal Service]

1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.

1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom.

1814 – The Swedish–Norwegian War begins.
• [Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)]
• [The Swedish Norwegian War Of 1814 - Scandinavian History]

1822 – José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.

1822 – First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
• [Expedition of Dramali]
• [The Battle At Dervenakia]

1847 – Liberia declares its independence.

1861 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.

1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.

1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Richard Wagner]
• [Wikipedia: Parsifal]
• [Performance of the Opera] Conducted by Horst Stein

1882 – The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.

1887 – Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• [Wikipedia: Unua Libro]
• [Wikipedia Bio: L. L. Zamenhof]
• [Learn Esperanto]

1890 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
• [Wikipedia: Revolution of the Park]

1891 – France annexes Tahiti.

1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.

1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
• [Siege of Malakand]
• [Churchill on the Afghan Frontier - Past is Present (2009)]

1899 – Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.

1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

1918 – Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.
• [Wikipedia: Noether's theorem]
• [Emmy Noether and The Fabric of Reality]
• [The most beautiful idea in physics - Noether's Theorem]
• [Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality] (PBS Space Time)

1936 – Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [The Role of Foreigners in the Spanish Civil War]
• [The Deadly Dry Run for WW2 - The Spanish Civil War | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 1 of 3]

1936 – King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

1937 – Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
• [Battle of Brunete]
• [GREAT BATTLES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR - EP.8 - THE BATTLE OF BRUNETE] (subtitled)

1941 – World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
• [United States freezes Japanese assets]
• [Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor] (Library of Congress)

1944 – World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
• [Entry of Soviet Troops Into Lviv: Expectations and Fears (Concerns)]
• [1944: Russian Troops Seize Lwow From Nazis, Find the Jews Gone]
• [The Vanished JEWISH Community in Lviv, Ukraine!] (Travel Video)

1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
• [The 1945 UK General Election]
• [The Election Scene Landslide For Socialists (1945)]
• [Beveridge Report]
• [How did Churchill lose the 1945 general election?]
• [Why Churchill Lost the 1945 Election]

1945 – World War II: The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
• [Potsdam Declaration]
• [Truman's Ultimatum Regarding Hiroshima - Hiroshima - BBC]
• [The Potsdam Conference - When the Cold War began]

1945 – World War II: HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war.
• [HMS Vestal (J215)]

1945 – World War II: The USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with components and enriched uranium for the Little Boy nuclear bomb.
• [Most Secret Cargo of WWII - How a Lone US Warship Delivered the Atomic Bomb]

1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.

1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
• [National Security Act of 1947]
• [The National Security Act of 1947: The Law that Created the CIA]
• [Military Industrial Complex: NSA 1947]

1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States.

1951 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.

1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.

1953 – Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement

1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.

1953 – Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.

1956 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.

1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.

1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.

1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.

1963 – An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.

1963 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.

1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

1971 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
• [Wikipedia: Apollo 15]
• [Apollo 15 Remastered (50th Anniversary) [4K]]
• [Apollo 15 - In The Mountains Of The Moon (1971)]
• [Apollo 15 in 60fps: Rover Traverse To Station 4]

1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.

1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
• [Wikipedia: Morris worm]

1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
• [Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990]
• [The Americans with Disabilities Act, Signing Ceremony, July 26, 1990]

1993 – Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.

1999 – Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.

2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
• [Scott Bakula for NASA's Return to Flight (2005)] (Several PSA's by Scott Bakula)
• [STS-114 Return to Flight, launch & landing (7-26-05)]
• [Space Shuttle Flight 114 (STS-114) Post Flight Presentation]

2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.

2008 – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.

2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.

2011 – A Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes near Guelmim Airport in Guelmim, Morocco. All 80 people on board are killed.

2016 – The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
• [Sagamihara stabbings]
• [Japan knife attack: 19 killed at care centre in Sagamihara - BBC News]

2016 – Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
• [2016 Democratic National Convention]
• [Watch Hillary Clinton's full speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Hillary Clinton]

2016 – Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.
• [Solar Impulse 2 (HB-SIB)]
• [LIVE: Solar Impulse Airplane - Landing in Nagoya]
• [Solar Impulse - It's a place in aviation history]

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