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OUTLOOK
Warm, dry, and breezy conditions today will give way to cooler weather Friday as a dry cold front passes by the region. Additional disturbances will pass over the area this weekend, reinforcing the unseasonably cool air and bringing a chance of light snow showers to the higher ridges of the North Carolina mountains. A warming trend begins on Monday with unseasonably warm temperatures expected for the rest of the work 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 Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the northwest in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Light winds out of the west.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Lightwinds out of the west early increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Windy conditions.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Windy conditions.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs near 60.Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the west early in the morning increasing to5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the nNorthwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the southwest.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the west 3 to 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the lower 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
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (11.19 out of 12) today with Maple, Juniper, and Oak being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (9.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 24th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 84°F in Highlands in 1929
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Highlands in 1915
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.35 inches in Highlands in 1917
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.0 inches in Highlands in 1983
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
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Local and State News
• Debra Meadows appears to have filed three false voter forms [Washington Post]
• Ornaments needed for 2022 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree; All are invited to create, donate ornaments to decorate the People’s Tree [Macon Media]
• Plugged in: Cherokee receives state’s first electric school bus [Smoky Mountain News]
• NC audit: Virus business relief program lacks monitoring [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Coronavirus omicron updates: Here’s what to know in North Carolina on March 23 [Raleigh News and Observer]
• High rate of deaths at Buncombe County Detention Center results in more tools for safety [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
WNC Broadband Meeting
Kevin Corbin (NC Senate 50th District) and Karl Gillespie (NC House 120th District) hosted an event (MOnday, March 21st) at Holly Springs Baptist Church to discuss expanding access to broadband in western North Carolina. Among those represented, were the Division of Broadband and Digital Equity, members of the NC House (Karl Gillespie (120th), Mike Clampitt (NC-119th), and Mark Pless (118th) that serve the counties in the NC Senate 50th District represented by Senator Corbin. Local elected officials and staff members from the counties and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee and the Town of Franklin and Highlands were also present, as well as Southwestern Community College, Morris Broadband, Frontier Communications, Balsam West, and other regional internet providers. There were also members of the public and regional news media outlets present. This is the video of the full event.
• Otto Fire Department has established a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Cheif Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
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Special Section: Russo-Ukrainian War Updates (March 24th)
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(additional long form videos are in the Science and Technology podcast section)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 23 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for the 20th]
• Ukraine captured Russian LEO satellite destroyer Krasukha EW [BulgarianMilitary.com]
Under Fire, Out of Fuel, No Air Support: What Intercepted Russian Radio Chatter Reveals [Alternate Link]
• Up to 40,000 Russian soldiers killed, wounded, captured or MIA in Ukraine, NATO estimates [CNBC]
• Analysis: Russia falls back on urban siege warfare in Ukraine [Al Jazeera]
• Top Kremlin adviser becomes first high-ranking Russian official to quit post since invasion of Ukraine [iNews]
• Biden heads to Europe as war rages in Ukraine [Courthouse News Service]
• Ukraine's Zelenskyy calls for global protests one month since Russia's invasion — live updates [DW]
• Finnish Customs has detained 21 yachts possibly owned by oligarchs [Helsinki Times]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets
• Kaliningrad for Kiev: Territorial adjustments in Eastern Europe vis-à-vis the Ukraine crisis [Pravda ]
• Russia expels American diplomats [Russia Today]
• Su-34 bombers destroy weapons depots and military equipment of Ukrainian army [TASS Russian News Agency]
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National and World News Roundup
Confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Day 3)
Confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Day 3)
• Jackson’s judicial record gives GOP little room for target practice [Courthouse News Service]
• Jackson says she’ll recuse herself from case challenging affirmative action at Harvard [SCOTUSblog]
• Grocery stores are struggling to supply Totino's and Pillsbury [CNN]
• Dearborn council approves resolution requiring Arabic-language election materials [Detiot Free Press]
• Trump aide Manafort removed from plane for revoked passport [AP News]
• Alex Jones skips deposition in Sandy Hook settlement, defying court order [News Times (Danbury, CT)]
Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) - March 20
Global National: March 23, 2022 | Ukraine says Russia has agreed to 9 humanitarian corridors
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 23rd, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 23rd, 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 5:51pm CET, 23 March 2022, there have been 472,816,657 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,099,380 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 18 March 2022, a total of 10,925,055,390 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:51pm CET, 23 March 2022, there have been 79,064,472 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 966,780 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 11 March 2022, a total of 541,754,260 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Moderna Announces its COVID-19 Vaccine Phase 2/3 Study in Children 6 Months to Under 6 Years Has Successfully Met Its Primary Endpoint [Moderna Press Release]
• Omicron BA.2 subvariant will soon dominate in U.S., but Fauci doesn’t expect another surge [CNBC]
• Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden [Nature]
• Struggling to sleep following a COVID-19 infection? You’re not alone, experts say [ABC (Austrialia)]
• America Is About to Test How Long ‘Normal’ Can Hold [The Atlentic]
• Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates [New York Times]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
· • Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: ‘Of all Big Tech, Facebook is No. 1 that I don’t like’ [CNBC]
• Sierra founders got 'bored' in lockdown so they're making their first new game in more than 20 years [PC Gamer]
• Ukraine war: Fortnite owner Epic Games raises £37m for humanitarian efforts [BBC News]
BLack Rabbit World, a subgroup of Anonymous reports that they hacked the data of the Central Bank of Russia. Tweet below.
• A Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine [WIRED]🔴MESSAGE FROM #ANONYMOUS RABBIT:
— The Black Rabbit World (@Thblckrbbtworld) March 23, 2022
No passage to injustice
No passage to kill innocents
No passage to Putin and oligarchs
Central Bank of Russian Federation has been hacked❗️
More than 35.000 files will be released within 48 hours with secret agreements.
Expect us#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/qy1TheVKNp
• The RIAA is trying to kill youtube-dl [Android Police]
• China plans to open its Tiangong space station for tourism within a decade [Space.com]
• How a Wikipedia editor became one of the loudest Web3 skeptics [Fast Company]
• Powell: Digital currencies will require new regulations [AP News]
• 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
Closest Black Hole Ever Found Turned Out To Be a Vampire Star
Driverless Taxis Are Everywhere
SLS Rolls Out, Starship Builds Up And JWST Shows First Real Image - Deep Space Updates March 20th
Where Is The Center of The Universe?
Booster 4 Prepared for Launch Mount Removal | SpaceX Boca Chica
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Special Section: Russo-Ukraine Videos
--> Drones in Ukraine - lessons for other countries
Using Drones to Break Russian Sieges in Ukraine
All Bling, no Basics - Why Ukraine has embarrassed the Russian Military (March 5th)
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On This Day
March 24th is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 282 days remain until the end of the year.
March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
1387 – English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.
1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 – James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.
1720 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February.
1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
1765 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1794 – In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
1829 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
1854 – President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.
1860 – Sakuradamon Incident: Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke is assassinated by rōnin samurai outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.
1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1900 – Carnegie Steel Company is formed in New Jersey; its capitalization of $160 mil. is the largest to date.
1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad began in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women's sports event.
1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
1934 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1944 – German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
1946 – A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
1961 – The Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
1977 – Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
1980 – El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1989 – In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.
1993 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 is discovered by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker, and David Levy at the Palomar Observatory in California.
1998 – Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
1998 – Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
1999 – Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1999 – A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 38 people.
2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
2018 – Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.
2018 – Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
2019 – Jakarta MRT, a rapid transit system in Jakarta, began operation.
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, March 24, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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