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An active weather pattern begins this weekend with a series of frontal systems crossing the area from Sunday into much of next week. Expect above normal temperatures and a chance of afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms most days.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after noon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 68. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after noon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the morning.
Monday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain is 20%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after noon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 8 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 3am, then a slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain is 20%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Chance of precipitation is 20%.southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms. Highs near 70. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 3am, then a slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
Below is the High Resolution Rapid Refresh from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction for our area. It runs from 3am EDT today to 4pm EDT this afternoon.
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 middle range of yellow .
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (8.4 out of 12) today with Oak, Beech, and Birch being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (6.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for April 30th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 88°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1970
Lowest Temperature 27°F in Highlands in 1992
Greatest Rainfall 3.40 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1963
Greatest Snowfall (No measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Record weather events for March in Macon County
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of April Data available from 1873 to 2018 Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 04-26-1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands on 04-01-1987
Greatest Rainfall 7.00 inches in Highlands on 04-07-1895
Greatest Snowfall 9.5 inches in Franklin on 04-04-1987
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
• Princeton finds 'no credible allegations' of data manipulation from researcher who helped in NC redistricting [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC continues to clear its rape kit backlog but challenges remain [WTVD-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Blue Ridge Parkway reopened as firefighters battle 200-acre wildfire, now 30% contained [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• New ethics Complaint Filed Against Madison Cawthorn (NSFW) [Daily Mail]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners - April 2022 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• 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, April 29 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
• ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ war hero dies in battle after shooting down 40 Russian aircraft [India Today]
Russia Advances in East Ukraine, Combat Footage (FNN Live) | Funker530
Ukraine admits heavy losses in Russian onslaught | DW News
Artillery Positions in School | Operator Starsky
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (April 29th)
1/ Ukrainian TVD, Day 58-64. The past week has seen Russian forces initiate an integrated offensive along the Siverskyi Donets Line & Severodonetsk Salient. Assaults resume against the Azovstal Metallurgical Zone; UKR forces execute several spoiling attacks. #WarinUkriane pic.twitter.com/w7dkxMRUZ2
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) April 29, 2022
• Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky Says Russian Troops Came Close To Capturing Him And His Family [NDTV]
• Putin Accepts Invitation to Attend G20 Summit, Setting Up Biden Showdown [Newsweek]
• Russia pounds eastern Ukraine, strikes Kyiv with missiles [Courthouse News ServiceE]
• Putin’s ‘middle finger’ to the UN sends clear message to the West [Al Jazeera]
• Russian-appointed “governor” of Kherson region charged with treason by the Ukrainian authorities [Ukrinform]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Crisis in Ukraine result of US desire to build unipolar world – Russia [Russia Today]
• Poland wants to snatch a piece of its pie from collapsing Ukraine [Pravda ]
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• USS George Washington sailors detail difficult working conditions after string of suicides [Yahoo! News]
• A key inflation gauge jumped 6.6% in March, most since 1982 [ABC News]
• Premier of British Virgin Islands arrested in Miami on drug trafficking charges [NBC News]
• Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid [The Atlantic]
• QAnon-Affiliated Ron Watkins Bombs at GOP Debate, Forced to Take Back Wild Claim About Biden and Ukraine: ‘I Made a Mistake’ [MEDIAITE]
Global National: April 29, 2022 | Appeals for Russia to allow safe evacuation of Mariupol plant
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 29th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode April 29th, 2022
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes 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 5:47pm CEST, 29 April 2022, there have been 510,270,667 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,233,526 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 April 2022, a total of 11,477,767,378 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:47pm CEST, 29 April 2022, there have been 80,420,406 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 985,482 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 22 April 2022, a total of 556,437,068 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal [Nature]
• Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows [Washington Post]
• Masks back by popular demand on San Francisco BART trains [AP News]
• REPORT: COVID Leading Cause Of Work-Related Deaths In Washington State [WXL-FM (Portland, OR)]
• South Africa braces for fifth COVID surge, another major Chinese city tracks outbreak [CIDRAP]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• FBI Searched Data of Millions of Americans Without Warrants [Bloomberg]
• Amazon Stock Erases $184 Billion In Value After Inflation Triggers Unexpected Loss And 'Ugly' Selloff [Forbes]
• Apple to developers: if we deleted your old app, it deserved it [The Verge]
• Ocean life projected to die off in mass extinction if emissions remain high [NBC News]
• Chevron’s profit quadruples in the first quarter as higher oil and gas prices boost operations [CNBC]
• MIT Engineers Created a Portable Device that Zaps Seawater to Make Drinking Water [Yahoo! News]
• Intel CEO now expects chip shortage to last into 2024 [CNBC]
• Singaporean wins $100k prize in challenge to build AI models that detect deepfakes [The Straights Times]
• 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
It's Like an Onion Stuffed with Peanut Butter - ASRock AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Review | Level 1 Techs
Beam Me a Recharge, Scotty - DTNS 4264 | Daily TechNews Show
Schelling Points for Alien Contact | Cool Worlds
Raptor Vacuum Thrust Simulators Assembled for Starship Testing | SpaceX Boca Chica
Deep Space Update 04-29-2022 | Scott Manley
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Real Reason Russia Gave Crimea to Ukraine | Infographics
Russia-Ukraine War: Russia Admits Striking Ukraine's Kyiv During UN Chief's Visit
Why the Russian Army T-72 Tank is Worse Than You Think | Task and Purpose
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On This Day
April 30 is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 245 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. He is named admiral of the ocean sea, viceroy and governor of any territory he discovers.
1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
1598 – Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.
1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
1636 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
1871 – The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
1885 – Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
1897 – J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.[2]
1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1905 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.
1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
1937 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
1939 – The 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens.
1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
1943 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
1945 – World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.
1947 – In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
1956 – Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
1957 – Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
1973 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
1980 – Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
1980 – The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
1982 – The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.
1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
1994 – Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.
1999 – Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub, killing three people and injuring 79 others.[3]
2000 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers committing war crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
2009 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2009 – Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
2012 – An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
2013 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
2014 – A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.
2021 – Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
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Published at 5:15am on Saturday, April 30, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to the following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center. Back to Top
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