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OUTLOOK
Dry weather returns today, and continues through the first half of the weekend. A fast-moving, and mostly dry cold front will cross the area late Saturday, then mild high pressure returns for early next week. A wet storm system is expected to arrive Tuesday, with unsettled weather continuing through the middle of the 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
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 60s.
Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the early evening becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Light and variable winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 67.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 60.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows near freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 7 mph.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming light and variable before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows in the upper 30s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the northwest by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 60.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows in the upper 30s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
There are no hazardous weather conditions anticipated for today or tonight.
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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 upper range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (11.0 out of 12) today with Maple, Oak, and Elm being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (9.6 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for April 1st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 88°F Franklin in 1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands in 1987
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.63 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1999
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 2.5 inches in Franklin in 1881
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
• GSMNP: Wildfire on North Carolina side of Smoky Mountains 80% contained, most firefighters to demobilize Friday [WBIR-TV (Knoxville, TN)]
• Voting rights in limbo for people on felony probation, parole, in North Carolina [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Republicans turn on Rep. Cawthorn as top NC GOP officials back his primary challenger [Raleigh News and Observer]
• 'It's definitely a crisis right now': A third of US teens struggling with mental health [WTVD-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Sevier County wildfire grows to 3,700 acres, 30% contained [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• 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 31 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for the 30th]
Russia Consolidates/Redeploys Combat Power in Ukraine; Day 36 (FNN Live)
• The Risks of a Russian Ceasefire Offer [Institute for the Study of War]
1/ Ukrainian Theater of War, Day 35-36: Todays update briefly focuses on the Kharkiv-Donbas Strategic Front. Ukrainian forces have made important around Kharkiv, threatening to significantly disrupt Russian attempts to reinforce success in the Donbas. #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/xLqpCC8ARA
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) April 1, 2022
Day 36: Russia captured Ukrainian refugees! | Operator Starsky
“The Bear Trap” – The War in Ukraine Explained: 1 Month into the Russian Invasion
• Russian Troops Suffer ‘Acute Radiation Sickness’ After Digging Chernobyl Trenches [Yahoo! News]
• Ukrainian Troops Push Forward as Russian Forces Regroup and Give Back Control of Chernobyl [Wall Street Journal]
Fighting rages near Kyiv as Russian forces regroup
• Russia moves to seize eastern Ukraine, Europe faces gas shortages [Courthouse News Service]
Russian forces leaving Chernobyl after radiation exposure | ABC7
• Russian forces regrouping for attack - NATO[BBC News]
Jablonski: A 'certainty' that Putin would like to attack Poland | Talk to Al Jazeera
• Ukraine war: 'Just 21 seconds without an attack' - inside Irpin, the bombarded town that resisted a Russian onslaught [Sky News]
Russia Ukraine conflict: Heavy shelling in Kyiv despite Moscow’s claim of ‘de-escalation’
• Ukraine: Putin realizes 'there can be no military solution,' Khodorkovsky says [DW]
• France, Germany reject Putin demands for gas payments in roubles as 'blackmail' [France 24]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets
• Russia makes new allegations about US-funded biolabs in Ukraine [Russia Today]
• Chechnya's Kadyrov: Russia will never compromise for Ukraine See more at https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/150919-kadyrov_medinsky/ [Pravda ]
• S&P removes Russian and Belarusian bonds from its 11 indices [TASS Russian News Agency]
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National and World News Roundup
• Biden to release 180M oil barrels to lower gas prices [Courthouse News Service]
• Explainer: How the US’s strategic petroleum reserve works [Al Jazeera]
• Curfew in Sri Lanka as protesters try to storm president’s house [Al Jazeera]
• Election skeptics roil GOP contests for secretary of state [AP News]
• Will Smith Did a Bad, Bad Thing [Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]
• Will Smith shares lengthy apology to Chris Rock ‘I was wrong’ [Fansided]
Biden stands by his comment on Putin, releases 2023 budget proposal
Global National: March 31, 2022 | First Nations leaders optimistic after meeting Pope Francis
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 31st, 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 5:19pm CEST, 31 March 2022, there have been 485,243,022 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,137,553 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 5:19pm CEST, 31 March 2022, there have been 79,292,582 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 971,569 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 March 2022, a total of 544,622,140 vaccine doses have been administered.
• U.S. Covid hospitalizations hit new low, falling 32 percent in the last two weeks [NBC NewsE]
• First human challenge study of Covid-19 yields valuable insights about how we get sick[CNN]
• New Mutant “XE” Omicron Variant May Be The Most Transmissible Version Of Covid Yet, According To WHO [Deadline]
• Covid vaccines give extra protection to previously infected, studies show [The Guardian]
• Column: Did Sweden beat the pandemic by refusing to lock down? No, its record is disastrous [Los Angeles Times]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• E3 2022 is canceled [The Verge]
• Scientists publish the first complete human genome[Reuters]
• The complete sequence of a human genome [Science.org]
• Ubiquiti seeks $425K in damages against industry blogger Brian Krebs [SC Media]
• How to Install Multiple Bootable Operating Systems on a USB Stick [Make Use Of]
• A Facebook bug promoted posts containing nudity, violence, and misinformation over the past 6 months, new report says [Business Insider]
• Solving the challenges of robotic pizza-making [Tech Xplore]
• Post Office Cops Used Social Media Surveillance Program Illegally [Vice 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
https://youtu.be/vtHZ09p9QFo?t=8 Full Replay: New Shepard Mission NS-20 Webcast | Blue Origin
Level1 News April 1 2022: A Chippy Off The Old Block
A Word to the Wyze - DTNS 4244
LIVE REPLAY: SpaceX Rolls Out Super Heavy Booster 7 | NASASpaceflight
Intel Arc GPUs, KDE gestures, and Fedora 36 beta - Linux and open source News
Linux Action News 234 | Jupiter Broadcasting
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> “The Bear Trap” – The War in Ukraine Explained: 1 Month into the Russian Invasion
The weapons Ukraine uses against Russia
Ukrainian Mortar Teams Use Drones To Spot Their Targets
The brutality of war on Ukraine’s front lines
Hundreds of shells fall on Kyiv suburb as Ukrainians blow up bridge to halt Russian tanks | ITV News
Russian soldiers run for their lives as Ukraine forces destroy base
Fighting rages near Kyiv as Russian forces regroup
Russian tanks destroyed outside Kyiv
Russia Ukraine conflict: Heavy shelling in Kyiv despite Moscow’s claim of ‘de-escalation’
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On This Day
April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 274 days remain until the end of the year.
It is the first day of the second quarter of the year, and the midway point of the first half of the year. In leap years, the second quarter of the year begins at noon on this day.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.
527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1545 – Potosí, Bolivia, is founded after the discovery of huge silver deposits in the area.
1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1625 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.[citation needed]
1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin.
1865 – American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
1867 – Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
1873 – The White Star steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
1900 – Prince George becomes absolute monarch of Crete.
1908 – The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1933 – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
1935 – India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
1937 – Aden becomes a British crown colony.
1937 – The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
1941 – Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
1941 – A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
1944 – Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
1945 – World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
1946 – The 8.6 Mw Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
1946 – The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
1947 – The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
1948 – Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
1948 – Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
1949 – The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
1954 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1955 – The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
1964 – The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
1970 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
1973 – Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
1974 – The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
1977 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
1979 – Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
1984 – Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California.
1986 – Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
1989 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
1999 – Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
2001 – An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Chinese pilot ejected but is subsequently lost. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
2001 – Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
2001 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
2004 – Google launches its Email service Gmail.
2006 – Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Government of the United Kingdom is enforced, but later merged into National Crime Agency on 7 October 2013.
2011 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.[
2016 – The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact.
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Published at 4:00am on Friday, April 01, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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