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OUTLOOK
A weak cold front will slowly cross the area today and move off the coast by early Sunday. Northwest flow moisture will develop across the southern Appalachians tonight, with drying elsewhere. Dry high pressure will spread over the region on Sunday and linger through early next week. Another cold front will approach the area by the middle of next week.
• Otto Fire Department has established a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Chief Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Areas of drizzle with a chance of showers before 8am, then areas of drizzle between 8am and 9am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 62. South wind 6 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. Northwest wind around 9 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 62. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Sunday Night
Clear, with a low around 34. North northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 67.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Areas of drizzle with a chance of showers before 8am, then areas of drizzle between 8am and 9am. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 55. Southwest wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Breezy, with a northwest wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 54. Breezy, with a northwest wind 11 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.
Sunday Night
Clear, with a low around 35. North northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 58.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Areas of drizzle with a chance of showers before 8am, then areas of drizzle between 8am and 9am. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 55. Southwest wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Breezy, with a northwest wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 54. Breezy, with a northwest wind 11 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.
Sunday Night
Clear, with a low around 35. North northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 58.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 57. Southwest wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. West northwest wind 8 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 56. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Sunday Night
Clear, with a low around 35. North northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 65.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the extreme upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the extreme upper range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (9.3 out of 12) today with Maple, Juniper, and Oak being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 19th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 82°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2011
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Highlands in 1893
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.20 inches in Highlands in 1881
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 4.0 inches in Highlands in 1947
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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Local and State News
• GOP appeal seeks to curb state court power over US House map [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Meadows' voting, Daylight Saving and medical marijuana (video article) [WRAl-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Neighbors voice concerns over plans for 60-unit apartment complex in Waynesville [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Connecting some rural areas of Western NC to high-speed internet getting boost from ARPA [Carolina Public Press]
• Otto Fire Department has established a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Cheif Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
Day Twenty Three
Ukraine Invasion Continues Day 23 (FNN Live)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Number 17 (ISW will dial back their reports to twice a week) [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for the 15th]
Who are the Pro-Russian Separatists of Ukraine? (Donetsk and Luhansk)
• Putin holds rally in Moscow, praises Russian troops as Ukraine fights back invasion [CBC]
• Mounting Russian casualties in Ukraine lead to more questions about its military readiness [CNN]
• Ukraine's Air Defenses Are Keeping Russian Jets at Bay (March 16th) [The National Interest]
• Ukraine to receive Strela-3 MANPADS, 9K33 Osa, and S-300 SAMs [Bulgarian MilitaryE]
• Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare [WIRED]
• American gunmakers help Ukrainians fight back against Putin [ABC News]
• Marjorie Taylor Greene says Ukraine should give up (video in article) [Salon]
• Russian foreign minister praises Fox News coverage of war in Ukraine [The Guardian]
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National and World News Roundup
• Xi says improper handling of Taiwan issues will hit China-U.S. ties [Reuters]
• Lake Powell hits historic low, raising hydropower concerns [AP News]
• UN accuses Myanmar army of war crimes, torture, killings [Al Jazeera]
• Mark Meadows' voter registration under investigation by state officials in North Carolina [CNN]
• Ex-Virginia police officer and West Virginia lawmaker plead guilty in Capitol riot [CBS News]
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Global National: March 18, 2022 | Russian army strikes Lviv airport, spikes fear in western Ukraine
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 18th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 18th, 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 4:14pm CET, 17 March 2022, there have been 462,758,117 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,056,725 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 15 March 2022, a total of 10,783,650,787 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 4:14pm CET, 17 March 2022, there have been 78,891,488 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 960,194 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 February 2022, a total of 537,567,013 vaccine doses have been administered.
• What do we mean by ‘COVID-19 changes your brain’? [Science News]
• Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date [Wall Street Journal]
• [Hong Kong] Lam to Review Travel Ban When Fifth Wave Eases, HK01 Says[Bloomberg]
• WHO may reject Canadian-made Medicago COVID-19 vaccine because of ties to big tobacco[the Globe and Mail]
• How the US could create a test-to-treat location in every home [Quartz]
• ‘Stealth' COVID Variant Spreading Faster in NY Than US, CDC Says: What to Know About BA.2 [WNBC-TV (New York, NY]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• How the U.S. fell behind in lithium, the ‘white gold’ of electric vehicles [CNBC]
• This Week in Security: More Protestware, Another Linux Vuln, and TLStorm[Hackaday]
• Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare [WIRED]
• What made the last century’s great innovations possible? [Science News]
• Tesla announces a new ‘Gigabeer’ with Cybertruck-inspired bottle, because why not? (video in article) [electrek]
• Open-source Farming Robot Now Includes Simulations [Hackaday]
• Bitcoin millionaires are moving to Puerto Rico for lower taxes and island living [CNBC]
• Half of Americans accept all cookies despite the security risk [Tech Radar]
• Intel commits $36 billion to making chips in Europe [CNBC]
• Now That is a Big Rocket. Space Launch System Rolls out to the Launch pad for a Series of Tests [Universe Today]
• 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
SpaceX Falcon 9 B1051 Starlink 4-12 Night Launch From Cocoa Beach in 4k
Starlink Mission #41 Group 4-12
World's most powerful!' Artemis moon rocket praised by NASA Chief
Parenting Social Media - DTNS 4235
NEWS: $BABA & $TCEHY layoffs, Google's AR purchase, $APE coin; OK Boomer: Smirk | E1412
PS2 on Android and Raspberry Pi, Switch Emulator running Mario Kart Online and more
Top 5 Best FREE ANTIVIRUS Software in 2022
The Coming Soviet Crash: Russia's Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets (C-SPAN 1989)
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On This Day
March 19th is the 78th day of the year (79th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 287 days remain until the end of the year.
Sometimes the March equinox falls on this date (mostly in Western Hemisphere countries), marking the vernal point in the Northern Hemisphere and the autumnal point in the Southern Hemisphere.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.
1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.
1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1452 – Frederick III of Habsburg is the last Holy Roman Emperor crowned by medieval tradition in Rome by Pope Nicholas V
1563 – The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1808 – Charles IV, king of Spain, abdicates after riots and a popular revolt at the winter palace Aranjuez. His son, Ferdinand VII, takes the throne.
1812 – The Cortes of Cádiz promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
1831 – First documented bank heist on U.S. history, when burglars stole $245,000 (1831 values) from the City Bank (now Citibank) on Wall Street. Most of the money was recovered.
1853 – The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
1861 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
1885 – Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
1900 – The British archeologist Sir Arthur John Evans begins excavating Knossos Palace, the center of Cretan civilization.
1918 – The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1921 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1931 – Governor Fred B. Balzar signs a bill legalizing gambling in Nevada.
1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1944 – World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
1958 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
1962 – The Algerian War of Independence ends.
1964 – Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of João Goulart and against communism.
1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1969 – The 385-metre-tall (1,263 ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
1989 – The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979.
1990 – The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
1998 – An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.
2001 – German trade union Ver.di was formed
2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2004 – Catalina affair: A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work.
2004 – March 19 Shooting Incident: The Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
2011 – Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
2013 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
2016 – Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
2016 – An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
2018 – The last male northern white rhinoceros, Sudan, dies, ensuring a chance of extinction for the species.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, March 19, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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