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OUTLOOK
Breezy conditions Wednesday leading up to a cold front Wednesday night into Thursday, with widespread rain. Dry weather returns Thursday night into the first part of the weekend, before a low pressure system may bring light showers to the area late Saturday.
• 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 Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Showers, mainly after 3am. The rain could be heavy at times. Patchy fog after 5am. Lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and 2pm, then a chance of showers after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog before 8am. Higs in the lower 70s. WInds out of the south 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Patchy drizzle between 8am and 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Rain likely before 4am, then showers, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 5am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog after 4am. Lows around 50. Winds out of the south 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Showers, mainly after 3am. The rain could be heavy at times. Patchy fog after 5am. Low in the mid 50s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and 3pm, then a chance of showers after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs near 70. Winds out of the south 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. Light winds out of the southeast in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
A slight chance of rain before 2am, then showers, mainly after 2am. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the south 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 2pm, then a chance of showers after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog between 7am and 8am. Highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the south 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
A Wind Advisory will be in effect from 3pm today until 11am tomorrow. A copy is posted below.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM WEDNESDAY TO 11 AM EDT THURSDAY...
* WHAT...South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 55 mph expected.
* WHERE...Portions of northeast Georgia and western North Carolina, with the higher gusts above 50 mph at elevations above 3500 feet.
* WHEN...From 3 PM Wednesday to 11 AM EDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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Almanac
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
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.6 out of 12) today with Juniper, Oak, and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (3.5 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 30th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 83°F in Franklin in 1985
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Highlands in 1894
Greatest Rainfall 5.41 inches in Nantahala in 1975
Greatest Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands in 1915
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
• At the worst time, North Carolina nursing home residents lost key protections [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Dry, windy weather across Western North Carolina prompts warning from fire official [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Vietnamese carmaker to build electric vehicles in N Carolina [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Franklin Girl Scout Troop goes global with Ukrainian Sunflower project [Macon County News and Shopping Guide]
• Photos and video of the 2022 Vietnam Veterans Day Observance in Franklin, NC [Macon Media]
Macon County Commissioners - March 2022 Special Meeting
The Macon County Board of Commissioners held a special called meeting on March 24th, 2022, to provide match funding to be used by local Internet providers in NC GREAT broadband grant submittals. Commissioners voted 5-0 to each application $50,000 in matching funds from their pot of money ($6.9 million) from the American Rescue Plan Act. Frontier Communications and Balsam West each will receive $50,000 for their applications and $100,000 for the two applications being submitted by Altice USA (known locally as Morris Broadband/Optimum). If the providers are not awarded GREAT funding, the funds will revert back to Macon County.
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]
• Interactive map: average date of last spring freeze across the United States [Climate.gov]
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Special Section: Russo-Ukrainian War Updates
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(Longer videos are in the Russo-Ukraine Videos section)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 29 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for the 29th]
Ukraine Takes Irpin, Russia Stalls in the North; Day 34 (FNN Live)
1/ Ukrainian Theater of War, Day 34: Todays update briefly focuses on the Chernihiv & Sumy Oblasts. Ukrainian forces have made important gains in Sumy; however, Russia is preparing a long-term defense in the Chernihiv Oblast. #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine #RussianUkrainianWar pic.twitter.com/4M9CChpn1C
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) March 30, 2022
Day 34: Debunking Russian Fakes
• Ukraine-Russia ceasefire talks yield glimmers of hope [Courthouse News Service]
• Ukraine appears to strike back for first time with missile hit on Russian military camp [New York Post]
• Powerful cyber attack on Russia’s Civil Aviation Authority servers: no more data nor back-up [Aviation24]
• Ukraine's ambassador tells U.N. the 'demilitarization of Russia is well under way' [Yahoo! News]
• Ukrainian girl recovers from critical wounds after Russian soldiers kill her entire family [itv News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets
• Highlights from Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Turkey [Russia Today]
• Russian special forces capture Ukrainian torturers [Pravda ]
• West’s unilateral anti-Russian sanctions leading to crisis of historic scale — diplomat [TASS Russian News Agency]
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National and World News Roundup
• Manchin shoots down Biden's new billionaire tax plan [The Hill]
• FTC sues Intuit to stop ‘bait-and-switch’ TurboTax ads [AP News]
• Positive Drug Tests Among U.S. Workers Hit Two-Decade High [Wall Street Journal]
• Call Logs Underscore Trump’s Efforts to Sway Lawmakers on Jan. 6 [New York Times]
• Sandy Hook families reject Alex Jones settlement offer [AP News]
Biden stands by his comment on Putin, releases 2023 budget proposal
Global National: March 29, 2022 | US doubts Russia's promise to scale back operations near Kyiv
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 29th, 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 6:10pm CEST, 29 March 2022, there have been 481,756,671 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,127,981 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 March 2022, a total of 11,054,362,790 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:10pm CEST, 29 March 2022, there have been 79,227,083 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 969,917 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 March 2022, a total of 544,622,140 vaccine doses have been administered.
• The more contagious BA.2 version of omicron is now the most common in the U.S. [NPR]
• COVID-19 Vaccination Protects Adults on Dialysis, Study Results Show [Pharmacy Times]
• No perfect therapy for the imperfect COVID-19 cytokine storm [The Lancet]
• COVID-19 can lead to lingering nerve damage [UPI]
• Still coughing after COVID? Here’s why it happens and what to do about it [The Conversation]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Tesla Gets a Big Win That May Cost Legacy Carmakers Millions [The Street]
• Researchers find region covered with ice volcanoes on Pluto[Courthouse News Service]
• Sun erupts with 17 flares from single sunspot, sending solar storms toward Earth [Space.com]
• How China’s TikTok, Facebook influencers push propaganda [AP News]
• YouTube added 1,500 free movies, but good luck finding them [Mashable]
• 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
Level1 News March 30 2022: The Sweet Nestle Leaks
UN Country, You Get A Flag - DTNS 4242
Ship 24's Nosecone Nearly Ready for Stacking | SpaceX Boca Chica
Space Pizza & Dead Spacecraft - Deep Space Questions Episode 16
Cordkillers 401 - Ultimate Butt Groove
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> How military drones became a decisive factor in the Russia-Ukraine war | DW News
The Ukrainian Fighters Defending Kyiv | Russia–Ukraine W
Putin's greater Russia: What is driving the invasion of Ukraine?
Pentagon holds briefing as Russia-Ukraine talks continue | full video
Very special "Russian operation": Ukraine has more tanks today than had before the war
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On This Day
March 30 this the 89th day of the year (90th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 276 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)
240 BC – 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
804 - Ludger becomes 1st Bishop of Münster in the Holy Roman Empire
988 - Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 – The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 – Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
0603 - Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1699 – Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1815 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
1818 – Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1841 – The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1861 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
1863 – Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
1870 – Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
1885 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires.
1899 – German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
1912 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1918 – Outburst of bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
1939 – The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).
1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
1944 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
1944 – Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
1949 – Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1976 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.
1979 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
2002 – The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.
2009 – Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
2017 – SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
2020 - International Olympic Committee announces postponed 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be held July 23-August 8 in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic
2020 - Three out of four Americans now ordered to stay home due to COVID-19 as states of Virginia, Maryland, Arizona and Florida issue lockdowns
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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