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OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will continue to spread over the area today. So quiet weather will be in store for the region through the early part of the week. More active weather with rain and possible snow at higher elevations, may return late in the week.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [October 21, 2021]
• Today (Monday, Novmber 1st, 2021), Macon Middle School will be having a Virtual Instruction Day.
• Franklin Town Council 2021 Candidate Forum Videos [Macon Media]
• COVID-19 Boosters Are Available at Macon County Public Health Department [Macon Media]
Monoclonal Antibodies Treatment Presentation by Dr Dewhurst
• Construction Has Begun on the South Macon Backbone! [Little T BroadbandE]
Monica Collier receives national recognition through the NYC Big Book Award®! Franklin, NC -- The NYC Big Book Award recognized PINK: A Christmas Romance, released October 5, 2021, in the category of Christian Fiction as the winner. The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters. Selected award Winners and Distinguished Favorites are based on overall excellence. Read the full press release at [Macon Media/a>]
You can find the book at your favorite local bookstore or on [Amazon]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Wednesday Night
Franklin area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the north around 5 mph early becoming calm bu midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning invreasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.
Otto area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the north.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Nantahala area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Light winds out of the north.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
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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 Mon Nov 1 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Subtropical Storm Wanda, located about 960 miles west of the Azores.
1. A broad area of low pressure located several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is producing disorganized shower activity. This system is moving into an area of less conducive upper-level winds, and the chances of tropical cyclone development are decreasing.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
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Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the middle range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (2.3 out of 12) today with Ragweed and Chenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.21 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for November 1st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 81°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2016
Lowest Temperature 15°F in Highlands in 1917
Greatest Rainfall 2.70 inches in Nantahala in 1951
Greatest Snowfall 2.2 inches in Highlands in 2014
Record Weather Events for November (1872-2017)
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Nov 4, 2003
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands on Nov 25, 1950
Greatest Rainfall 4.69 inches in Highlands on Nov 29, 1914
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands on Nov 28, 1922
Record Weather Events for November 1st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Maysville, Onslow County in 2009
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1913
Greatest Rainfall 5.08 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1969
Greatest Snowfall 13.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
Record Weather Events for November in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Goldsboro, Wayne County on 11-09-1900
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-25-1950
Greatest Rainfall 8.15 inches in Idlewild, Ashe County on 11-06-1977
Greatest Snowfall 18.00 in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-04-1930
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Otto Fire & Rescue Drive Thru BBQ
Begins Saturday, November 6th at noon at the firestation at 60 Fire House Road in Otto.
Otto Fire & Rescue is having its annual BBQ. This year were doing it a little different. We are having a Drive Thru BBQ; meaning you pull up in your vehicle and let us know what you want and we fix your plate and hand it off to you.
We will be serving:
BBQ PLATES with sides and desert- $10
CHICKEN PLATES with sides and desert- $10
We are not doing any Hamburger Plates this year.
So come on down and grab some fantastic food.
FROG FAIR
November 6, 2021
Friends of the Greenway Fall Fundraising Event. FROG FAIR will be held November 6 from 9-3 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main at the Town bridge. Vendor spaces are available--check our website for registration forms or stop by FROG Quarters. Make sure to mark your calendar--arts & crafts, food, & music will make it a special day. For more information, email frog28734@gmail.com.
Mitchell Mozeley Memorial March
We have planned a Mitchell Mozeley Memorial March for Saturday, November 6th at 7pm in Franklin, NC, starting at the Macon County Courthouse, proceeding to the Old Jail where Mr. Mozeley was momentarily detained, only to be taken by a mob. From there we will retrace Mozeley’s fateful route, down the “town hill” and to the town bridge which traverses the Little Tennessee River where Mr. Mozeley was executed by the mob, rope around his neck while on horseback, with the horse then removed.
We are working on contextualizing the Mozeley lynching into the broader picture of what was happening in NC in 1898. The short version is the "fusion" government of Republican and Populist parties which was nominally progressive on matters relating to race took power in 1896. The successful 1898 election was brilliantly and cruelly engineered by the Democratic Party to reverse that fortune. The murderous coup in Wilmington after the election was almost a celebratory coda to the 1898 campaign. And then in 1900, the nominally progressive governor was ousted and North Carolina became the second state, following Louisiana, to pass a voter suppression amendment (literacy tests with grandfather clauses) to its constitution.
In short, there was a full-on voter suppression campaign in North Carolina in 1898. That campaign was successful and was punctuated by acts of terror carried out by the Ku Klux Klan and the even more militant “Red Shirts.” We believe, though cannot prove, that Mozeley’s execution was an act of voter suppression, an act of political terrorism, coming a mere 48 hours before the ballots were to be cast in North Carolina.
For more information on the lynching, see [ttps://ncgenweb.us/macon/strange-fruit/]
Encastic Painting Classes
The Macon County Art Association (a not for profit member organization) is offering classes in encastic 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 and World News Roundup
Astros vs. Braves World Series Game 5 Highlights (10/31/21) | MLB Highlights
• At Climate Talks, Biden Will Try to Sell American Leadership to Skeptics [New York Times]
• India, UK to launch global solar grid project at COP26 [ABC News]
• Japanese man dressed as Joker injures 17 on Tokyo train [BBC News ]
• American Airlines cancels hundreds of weekend flights [Courthouse News Service]
• With coronavirus untamed, Russia suffers deadliest September since World War II [South China Morning Post]
• Police warn woman not to wear Halloween costume as protest [AP News]
• Super Mario Bros. 2 video game sells for $88,550 [CNN]
• Mexican city of Puebla rocked by explosions, believed to be caused by illegal tap on pipeline [ABC (ABC News (Austrailia)]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - October 31st, 2021
PBS NewsHour Weekend Full Episode October 31, 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.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [October 21, 2021]
• COVID-19 vaccine gives 5 times the protection of 'natural immunity,' data show [Center for Infectious Disease and Research Policy]
• White House press secretary Jen Psaki says she has COVID-19 [CBS News]
• COVID’s endgame: Scientists have a clue about where SARS-CoV-2 is headed [WBEZ-FM]
• COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status, and a Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL 25(OH)D3: Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [US National Library of Medicine] [PDF]
• Vaccine-induced humoral and cellular immunity against SARS-CoV-2 at 6 months post BNT162b2 vaccination [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• Anti-spike antibody response to natural SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general population [Nature]
• The Association between Vitamin D and Zinc Status and the Progression of Clinical Symptoms among Outpatients Infected with SARS-CoV-2 and Potentially Non-Infected Participants: A Cross-Sectional Study [US National Public Library of Medicine]
TWiV 823: COVID-19 clinical update #86 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #86, Dr. Griffin discusses virologic features of infection in children, antibody tests should not be used to asses level of protection, test-to-stay programs in schools, FDA authorizes Moderna boosters, results of TOGETHER trial for fluvoxamine, statins and 28 day mortality, and cognitive function in patients. Show notes at [Microbe TV]
TWiV 824: Immunogoblins in the nose and lungs
TWiV explores the properties of the spike glycoproteins of an influenza B virus discovered in the Wuhan spiny eel, and protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection one year after mRNA-1273 vaccination of nonhuman primates. Show notes at [Microbe TV]
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On This Day
November 1st is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 60 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)
365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
1009 – Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the battle of Alcolea.
1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of 'King of England'.
1179 – Philip II is crowned as 'King of France'.
1214 – The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
1503 – Pope Julius II is elected.
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1570 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1612 – During the Time of Troubles, Polish troops are expelled from Moscow's Kitay-gorod by Russian troops under the command of Dmitry Pozharsky (22 October O.S.).
1683 – The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1688 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
1755 – In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.
1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1861 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1893 – The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1894 – Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
1911 – World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
1914 – World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
1914 – World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
1916 – In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
1918 – Western Ukraine separates from Austria-Hungary.
1922 – Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1942 – World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
1943 – World War II: The 3rd Marine Division, United States Marines, landing on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, secures a beachhead, leading that night to a naval clash at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren.
1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is enthroned.
1949 – All 55 people on board Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 are killed when the Douglas DC-4 operating the flight collides in mid-air with a Bolivian Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft over Alexandria, Virginia. 1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
1950 – Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
1951 – Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
1952 – Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955 – The establishment of a Military Assistance Advisory Group in South Vietnam marks the beginning of American involvement in the conflict.
1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
1956 – Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy announces Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.
1956 – The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1963 – The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins.
1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1973 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
1979 – In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.
1979 – Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1984 – After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupt.
1987 – British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors.
1993 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
2000 – Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
2000 – The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
2012 – A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135.
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Published at 3:20am on Monday, November 01, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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