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OUTLOOK
Mild high pressure is expected to dominate the weather pattern for today. Expect more chances for showers and storms over the weekend, as a front stalls over the region. Cooler high pressure returns early next week.
It is Finished
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. John 19:30 (NKJV)
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A slight chance of rain after 3am, then showers likely after 4am. Increasing clouds, with lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday
Showers, mainly before noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs near 70. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 70.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast in the afternoon.
Tonight
A chance of rain after 2am, then showers likely after 5am. Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday
Showers, mainly before 1pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 60.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds in the early morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
A slight chance of rain after 3am, then showers likely after 4am. Increasing clouds, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday
Showers, mainly before noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs near 70. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the west in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 70.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Showers likely, mainly after 5am. Increasing clouds, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday
Showers, mainly before noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the light and variable by noon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the north.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Chance of rain is 60%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight in Macon County.
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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 (11.1 out of 12) today with Oak, Sweetgum, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.6 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for April 15th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2006
Lowest Temperature 20°F in Highlands in 1943
Greatest Rainfall 2.98 inches in Highlands in 1987
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (there has been no recorded snowfall on this date)
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
• Candidates for US Senate debate on WRAL [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Biden makes economic pitch to North Carolina amid rising inflation, low approval numbers [Raleigh News and Observer]
• 'Shocked, horrified': Mission nurse speaks to Federal Trade Commission about HCA merger [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• 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 14 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
The Price of War - Can Russia afford a long conflict?
Russian Warship; Ukraine Footage (FNN Live) | Funker530
Russian warship sinks after Ukraine claims it struck ship with missiles | ABC News
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (April 10th)
1/ Surmising Ukraine’s Strategic Options. Earlier this week I speculated on what a revised Russian OPLAN may look like. Today I will surmise on likely strategic options Ukraine may pursue to defeat Russia…and win. Another long thread. #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/CeURcWGinr
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) April 15, 2022
"Unboxing" of Russian "Orlan" | Operator Starsky
• Hiding in Plain Sight, a Soviet-Era Air Defense System Arrives in Ukraine [Yahoo! News]
• DOJ charges 3 Russians with running ‘foreign influence and disinformation network’ in U.S. [CNBC]
• Russian warship 'Moskva' has sunk — What do we know? [DW News]
• Amateur images show Russian military convoys heading to Donbas [France 24 | The Observers]
• U.S. Support for Ukraine Moves Further Into Offensive Assistance [Wall Street JournalL]
• C.I.A. Director Airs Concern That Putin Might Turn to Nuclear Weapons [New York Times]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Russian flagship sinks – military [Russia Today]
• Moskva missile cruiser sinks during storm - Defence Ministry [Pravda ]
• Russia to take defense measures if Sweden, Finland join NATO, senior diplomat warns [TASS Russian News Agency]
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• Supply Chain Hurdles Will Outlast Pandemic, White House Says [New York Times]
• Second Circuit shreds Nunes defamation claims against CNN [Courthouse News Service]
• For the first time, wind power eclipsed both coal and nuclear in the U.S. [NPR]
• 2 dead, more than 200 homes charred in New Mexico wildfire [AP News]
• DOJ charges 3 Russians with running ‘foreign influence and disinformation network’ in U.S. [CNBC]
• Expanding drought leaves western US scrambling for water [AP News]
Brooklyn subway shooting suspect arrested in New York City | full coverage | CBS News
Global National: April 14, 2022 | How Canada's mission to Poland to help Ukraine refugees will work
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 14th, 2022 [Youtube Link (Age restricted video)]
PBS NewsHour Full Episode April 14 th, 2022 [Youtube Link (Age restricted video)]
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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 8:36pm CEST, 14 April 2022, there have been 500,186,525 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,190,349 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 14 April 2022, a total of 11,294,502,059 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 8:36pm CEST, 14 April 2022, there have been 79,716,960 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 979,321 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 8 April 2022, a total of 549,330,665 vaccine doses have been administered.
Is the world moving on from COVID too quickly? | The Stream
• Anti-Vax Crew Had Plot to Spark Civil War Over COVID Restrictions, Prosecutors Say [Daily Beast]
• New COVID-19 nasal spray outperforms current antibody treatments in mice [Northwestern University]
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 Diagnostic Test Using Breath Samples (Test provides results in less than three minutes) [US Food and Drug Administration]
• Boston COVID test positivity rate passes ‘threshold of concern’ [ABC News]
• Supply Chain Hurdles Will Outlast Pandemic, White House Says [New York Times]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Musk says U.S. SEC 'bastards' forced settlement over Tesla tweets [Reuters]
• In ‘game changer,’ Israeli laser-based air defense shoots down drones [The Times of Israel]
• Astronomers observe nova explosions with ‘MAGIC’ telescope [Courthouse News Service]
• Only On 2: Local gamer saved by headset when stray bullet flies through bedroom window [KCBS-TV (Los Angeles, CA)]
• Netflix, Hulu argue they aren’t ‘video service providers’ before Ohio Supreme Court in case brought by Maple Heights [The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)]
• This Startup Wants to Get in Your Ears and Watch Your Brain [Wired]
• Elon Musk Is No Longer Twitter’s Largest Shareholder [Wall Street Journal]
• More Efficient Transistor Poses Threat to Silicon's Reign, Say Engineers [Gizmodo]
• Apple's big motive for fighting a new antitrust law [Yahoo! Finance]
• 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 April 15 2022: Post Office Penguin Wrangler
Buy The Bird - DTNS 4254
Weekly Space Hangout: 13-APR-2022 - Sailing Away Using Diffractive Solar Sails, with Amber Dubill
Booster 7 Proof Tested on the Structural Test Stand | SpaceX Boca Chica
Camping In Emergency Survival Bivvy Sack | Steve Wallis
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? | Michael Saylor and Lex Fridman
Linux Action News 236 | Jupiter Broadcasting
Kim Apple Says Good Morning - Elon Musk's Twitter stake, Unreal Engine 5, WWDC predictions | This Week in Tech
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> The Price of War - Can Russia afford a long conflict?
Russian Warship; Ukraine Footage (FNN Live) | Funker530
Ukraine War: Russia's Black Sea fleet flagship Moskva sinks
Russian warship sinks after Ukraine claims it struck ship with missiles | ABC News
Courageous rail workers keep Ukraine running amid war | DW News
Will the war in Ukraine worsen global food shortages? | Inside Story
Russian oil is being paid for with blood money, says Zelensky - BBC News
Ukraine War: Schools crumble under missiles
Wave of setbacks: Russia regroups as Ukraine braces for more bombing
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On This Day
April 15 is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 260 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)
769 – The Lateran Council condemns the Council of Hieria and anathematizes its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
1395 – Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Battle of the Terek River. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the throne.
1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.
1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1736 – Foundation of the Kingdom of Corsica.
1738 – Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, receives its premiere performance in London, England.
1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
1942 – The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.
1945 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1952 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans.
1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
1994 – Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
2002 – Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.
2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
2013 – A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.
2014 – In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.
2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, April 15, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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