**5:30pm** Several readers have reported a lot of smoke in the southern and eastern portions of the Cowee all the way into the Cowee Community. Above is a satellite loop showing the source of the smoke in Macon County this afternoon. It is froma controlled burn of 545 acres northwest of Walhalla, South Carolina. The South Carolina Forestry Commission App reports a pasture was burned this afternoon.
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OUTLOOK
High pressure will shift offshore today and allow temperatures to warm back to normal levels. A moist low pressure system will track south of the area and increase rain chances Tuesday night into Wednesday with dry weather returning on Thursday. A weak cold front is expected to cross the area Friday into Saturday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with a high near 60. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 34. South southeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming south southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers, mainly between 7pm and 9pm, then a chance of rain after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Light southeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday
Rain likely before 1pm, then showers likely after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Calm wind becoming east around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely before 1am, then a chance of rain, mainly between 1am and 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 51. Light and variable wind becoming south southeast 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 37. South southeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Tuesday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 54. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Rain likely, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. East northeast wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Wednesday
Rain likely before 10am, then showers likely after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51. East wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers before 1am, then a chance of rain, mainly between 1am and 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 59. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 36. South southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Tuesday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Calm wind becoming south southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Rain likely, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. Light east wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday
Rain likely before 11am, then showers likely after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. East wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers before midnight, then a chance of rain, mainly between midnight and 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with a high near 58. Calm wind becoming south southeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 34. South southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Tuesday
A slight chance of rain between 3pm and 4pm, then a slight chance of showers after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 59. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night
A slight chance of showers before 7pm, then a chance of rain after 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday
Rain likely, mainly between 9am and 11am, then showers likely after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Calm wind becoming east southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers before midnight, then a chance of rain, mainly between midnight and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Black ice may be possible early this morning. Otherwise, no hazardous weather conditions are expected today.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the upper 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
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the ;pw range (8.4 out of 12) today with Elm, Maple, and Juniper being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (8.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 14th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 85°F in Franklin in 1967
Lowest Temperature 4°F in Highlands in 1926
Greatest Rainfall 5.38 inches in Highlands in 1913
Greatest Snowfall 6.5 inches in Highlands in 1993
Record weather events for March in Macon County
Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 15, 1967
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on March 7, 1899
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.43 inches in Highlands on March 29, 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 13, 1993
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
• Macon County Board of Commissioners - March 2022 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• Franklin Town Council - March 2022 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• Companies abusing NC COVID immunity law in nursing home deaths, lawyers and families say [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• North Carolina woman's efforts to keep 'FART' license plate losing steam [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)] [Plateholder Post on Reddit]
• Visiting Our Past: Book evokes colorful phraseology of Western North Carolina [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• How NC-based military forces are helping to defend against Russian aggression [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Zelensky a "Thug?" Ukrainian Government "Incredibly Evil?" That's Not How NC's Two Senators See It [Indy Week]
• Filing Closes for 2022 Primary, Candidate List [Macon Media]
• Otto Fire department establishes a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Cheif Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
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Special Section: Russia Invades Ukraine (Day 18)
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(additional long form videos are in the Science and Technology podcast section)
Day Eighteen
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 13 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
• The battle for Kyiv intensifies as Russian forces advance on city outskirts [Courthouse News Service]
Why financial sanctions might be the strongest weapon in the fight against the Russian regime
• Russian 'dark money' stretches around the globe [Yahoo! NewsE]
• Russia seeks military equipment and aid from China, U.S. officials say [Microsoft News]
• Cut off from food, Ukrainians recall Stalin's famine, which killed 4 million of them [The Telegraph]
• Brent Renaud, Crusading Filmmaker, Is Killed at 50 [New York Times via the Wayback Machine]
• How do anti-tank missiles work – and how helpful might they be for Ukraine’s soldiers? (March 8th)[The Conversation]
Deep Dive: The Truth About the Biolabs
Russia Uses Thermobaric Weapons on Ukraine: How Vacuum Bombs Work
"Vacuum Bomb" Thermobaric Weapons Assessment
• A 'Crushing' Victory: Fuel-Air Explosives and Grozny 2000 (FMSO) | [Downloads PDF]
Additional News Sources
• Russia Launches invasion of Ukraine [BBC Liveblog]
https://www.kyivpost.com/
https://ukranews.com/en/news
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cx1m7zg0gzdt/ukraine
https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/
https://www.ukrinform.net/
https://www.cgtn.com/europe
NΞMICO NΞTWORK
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNFS1bhD94Qc5vSARGOo6w
EarthCam Live: Kyiv, Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cyQPN5xQtU
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine | LIVE | Situation Room | INDB | Russian Military Advancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8iFW7BRNA
Al Jazeera English | Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-upyPouRrB8
DW News livestream | Headline news from around the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KZGs1MtP4
LIVE MULTI-CAM: EXPLOSIONS NEAR KIEV - UKRAINE/RUSSIA/DONETSK/LUHANSK + TWITTER FEEDS/NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfpk4OFkXE
Putin announces 'special operation' in Donbass | SPECIAL COVERAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0I5eglJMRI
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National and World News Roundup
• Security for Pompeo costing $2 million per month amid threats from Iran: report [The Hill]
• Oil prices fall, continuing downward trend from last week [Reuters via Wayback Machine]
• IRGC fired missiles at Iraq in response to Israeli drone strike - report [Jerusalem Post]
• Check for $2.9 million sent by California Judicial Council to Courthouse News [Courthouse News Service]
• Shootings targeting homeless men in New York and Washington, DC are linked, police say [CNN]
• Tom Brady coming back to play for Tampa Bay, weeks after retirement announcement [Fox News (beware autoplaying video with loud sound)]
• British businessman victim of execution-style hit in Mexican tourist zone [Yahoo! News]
• Ashli Babbitt’s brother accused of assaulting, hurling slurs at Latino road worker [NBC News]
• Trump floats expanded presidential powers during rally speech, saying he would make every executive branch employee 'fireable' by POTUS [Business Insider]
Former President Donald Trump holds rally in Florence, South Carolina
• Conflicts to Watch in 2022 [Council on Foreign Relations]
Japan claims sovereignty over Russia controlled Kuril Islands | DW News
Global National: March 11, 2022 | Russia escalates bombardment, widens assault on western Ukraine
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 11th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 12th, 2022
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Here is a section on COVID-19. It will include local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 18, 2021]
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
Globally, as of 5:49am CET, 12 March 2022, there have been 452,201,564 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,029,852 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 6 March 2022, a total of 10,704,043,684 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:49am CET, 12 March 2022, there have been 78,739,443 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 958,659 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 February 2022, a total of 537,567,013 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21 [The Lancet]
How Do Vaccines Work? | SciShow Compilation
• Safety of mRNA vaccines administered during the initial 6 months of the US COVID-19 vaccination programme: an observational study of reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and v-safe [SOURCE]
• Pfizer CEO: Fourth shot of COVID vaccine "necessary" [AXIOS]
• Blood group O and post-COVID-19 syndrome [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron co-infections and recombination [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• Monitoring COVID-19
• COVID-19 Resource Centre [The Lancet]
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part I [Reddit]
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part II [Reddit]
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
[Outbreak.info]
• CDC Releases Emergency Guidance for Healthcare Facilities to Prepare for Potential Omicron Surge [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
• COVID-19 case rates by county in 2021 [AXIOS]
• Variant: 21L (Omicron) also known as BA.2[CoVariants]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Google forces YouTube Vanced to shut down ‘due to legal reasons’ [The Verge]
• Facebook Has a Child Predation Problem [WIRED]
• World's richest man Elon Musk chooses to live 'below the poverty line' according to ex [NZ Herald]
• Foxconn halts production as Shenzhen goes into lockdown [The Verge]
• Following The Murder Of George Floyd, The Minneapolis PD Built A Large-Scale Surveillance Program [Tech Dirt]
• VPN provider bans BitTorrent after getting sued by film studios [Bleeping Computer]
• Congress Provides Record Funding for Fusion Energy and Initiates New Public Private Partnership [Fusion Industry Association]
• How Silicon Valley’s Russia crackdown proves its power – and its threat [The Guardian]
• Space geoengineering: Can we control the weather? [Space.com]
• The new silent majority: People who don't tweet [AXIOS]
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Lamplight TV]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
New Booster Aft Section Flipped | SpaceX Boca Chica
How SpaceX and NASA Will Build The First Moon Base!
Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
How Airships Could Overcome a Century of Failure
Starlink Gets Special 'Warzone' Enhancements & Crossed Wires Kill Rocket - Deep Space Updates
Amazon Amp is Clubhouse Done Right
The Rise and Sudden Fall of a Korean President
Evergrande: the end of China's property boom | FT Film
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
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On This Day
March 14th is the 72nd 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 292 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)
1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1663 – According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book De Vacuo.
1674 – The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.
1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
1901 – Utah governor Heber Manning Wells has vetoed a bill that would have eased restriction on polygamy.
1903 – Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
1920 – In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
1926 – The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the RÃo Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1942 – Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
1943 – The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
1945 – The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.
1951 – Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
1961 – A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1972 – Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people.
1978 – The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
1979 – Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.
1980 – LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1982 – The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.
1988 – In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
2006 РThe 2006 Chadian coup d'̩tat attempt ends in failure.
2007 – The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people.
2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
2017 – A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance.
2019 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1000 deaths.
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, March 14, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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