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OUTLOOK
Cool and dry high pressure will move in from the west today and will cross the region tonight, resulting in temperatures well below normal. After the high moves off the coast late Wednesday, a warming trend is expected for the rest of the week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Areas of frost after 3am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, 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.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph decreasing and shifting to become light winds out of the northeast after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds in the early morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph by midmorning.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast wind around 5 mph.
Thursday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tonight
Areas of frost after 4am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the evening becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Areas of frost before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the early morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday
Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday
Partly sunny, with highs near 70.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
A Freeze Warning is in effect until 10am this morning. Areas of frost, if not another freeze, will be again be possible tonight across much of the mountains. A copy of the warning is posted below for your convenience.
Freeze Warning
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
319 AM EDT Tue Apr 19 2022
...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING...
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM EDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28. For the Frost Advisory, temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost formation.
* WHERE...Swain, Haywood, Graham, Northern Jackson, Macon, Southern Jackson and Transylvania Counties.
* WHEN...For the Freeze Warning, until 10 AM EDT this morning. For the Frost Advisory, from 2 AM to 9 AM EDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions may kill crops and other sensitive vegetation.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
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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 yellow .
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (11.2 out of 12) today with Oak, Sweetgum, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (9.7 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for April 19th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 88°F in Franklin in 1976
Lowest Temperature 17°F in Highlands in 1983
Greatest Rainfall 4.46 inches in Highlands in 1901
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inches in Highlands in 1983
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
• RDU Airport will drop masks after judge voids mandate for planes, other travel [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Haywood County commissioners in a 'pickle' over allocating $6 million in federal funding [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Candidate Profiles: Macon County Commissioners District I [The Southern Scoop News]
• Democratic group rescinds support for Triangle congressional candidate over contributions from pro-Israel group [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Complaint filed against Cawthorn by fired staffer [Smoky Mountain News]
• 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 18 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
Let's talk about Eastern Ukraine.... | Beau of the Fifth Column
Battle Of Donbas Begins: Zelenskyy Says Russia Started A New Offensive | MSNBC
This shows the ‘aggressiveness’ and ‘imagination’ of the Ukrainians: Gen. Jack Keane | Fox News Channel
• War in Ukraine: Regional authorities say at least 7 killed in Russian strikes on Lviv [DW News]
• Russia steps up bombardment of cities across Ukraine [Al Jazeera]
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (April 16th)
1/ Ukrainian Theater of War, Day 52-54: The past 72 hrs. have seen Russian forces reduce Ukrainian defenses in Mariupol to the Azovstal area. Ukrainian forces around Kharkiv launch several successful counterattacks while Russia builds forces near Izium. #Ukraine #UkraineInvasion pic.twitter.com/Oy7ClGza3l
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) April 19, 2022
Let’s talk: QandA, News, Recent Updates (04-18-2022) | Operator Starsky
• Ukraine war: Germany's conundrum over its ties with Russia [BBC News]
• Russia Begins New Military Offensive in Ukraine’s East, Ukrainian President Says [Wall Street Journal]
• Ukraine War Divides Orthodox Faithful [New York Times]
• Russia dropping 'bunker-buster' bombs on Mariupol steel plant, claims Ukraine as defenders prepare for final stand in the city [Sky News]
• Power and myth of the Kremlin [DW News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Battle for Donbass has started — Ukraine [Russia Today]
• Chechnya's Kadyrov: Russia proceeds to 'concrete' special operation in Ukraine [Pravda ]
• Situation in Russian economy, ruble’s exchange rate stabilizing, says Putin [TASS Russian News Agency]
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• US judge throws out Biden's mask mandate for public transport, airplanes [DW News]
• U.S. calls for an end to destructive satellite tests in space [Washington Post]
• Stagg High student dies after intruder enters campus, stabs her ‘multiple times’: ‘It’s a tragedy’ [The Stockton Record via Yahoo! News]
• The Jan. 6 panel faces a big decision on Trump’s alleged crimes [Yahoo! NewsRCE]
• Millions in the hole over conspiracy theories, Alex Jones enters businesses into bankruptcy [Courthouse News Service]
Poisoned: America's Fentanyl Crisis | ABCNL
Global National: April 18, 2022 | Deadly attack strikes Lviv as Russia escalates assault on Ukraine
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 18th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode April 18th, 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 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.
• Vaccine refuseniks in NYC, military get no Supreme Court sympathy [Courthouse News Service]
• CDC mask mandate for travelers no longer in effect following judge's ruling, official says [CNN]
• China’s Top Steeltown Returns to Partial Lockdown, Mass Testing [Bloomberg]
• Global data reveal half may have long COVID 4 months on [CIDRAP]
• Why China shows no sign of backing away from its ‘zero-Covid’ strategy [CNBC]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms[TechCrunch]
• Broadcasting Earth’s location could provoke alien invasion, Oxford scientist warns [The Telegraph]
• Musk’s bid will change Twitter even if it fails [Financial Times]
• Today I learned that the FBI has an 83-page guide to internet speak [The Verge]
• A former senior TikTok employee publicly opened up about quitting his $220,000 job after a year, saying he experienced a '996' culture of overwork and secrecy [Business Insider]
• Tesla's Shanghai Factory Will Reportedly Force Employees to Sleep at Work [Gizmodo]
• 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
Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022
Level1 News April 19 2022: The Twit Hits the Fan
Algorithmic Classroom Management - DTNS 4256 | Daily Tech News Show
BI 130 Eve Marder: Modulation of Networks | Brain Inspired
Booster 7 Rolled Back to the Production Site | SpaceX Boca Chica
UPDATE! NASA Briefs Media on Scrub of Artemis 1 WDR (Audio)
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Meet the Russian Siloviki - Putin's inner circle | Caspian Report
Ukrainians continue to fight as Russian forces close in on Mariupol I ABCNL
Ukraine: Russia begins new eastern offensive | DW News
Ukraine War: First civilians killed in Lviv as Russia extends attacks westwards | Sky News
Conflicting accounts over sinking of Russia's flagship Moskva | Al Jazeera
UN agency says more than 100,000 civilians in Mariupol on verge of famine | FRANCE 24 English
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On This Day
April 19th is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 256 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)
AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
607 - Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs (8.35 million miles) of Earth
531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
797 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself basileus.
1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London
1451 - Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
1506 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are being slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
1524 - Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly
1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
1539 – The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.
1591 - Chartres surrenders to King Henry IV in France
1608 – In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.
1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa was not born until 1717.
1770 – Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott are captured by British troops riding from Lexington to Concord, Prescott escapes to warn Concord
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782 – John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1933 - FDR announces US will leave gold standard
1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1943 – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
1975 – India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
1975 – South Vietnamese forces withdrew from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
2000 – Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
2018 - Miguel Diaz-Canel is elected Cuba's new president after former president Raúl Castro steps down
2018 - Senator Tammy Duckworth (Illinois) is the first parent to bring a baby into the US Senate, a day after the Senate votes to allow babies on the chamber's floor
2018 - King Mswati III of Swaziland changes the name of Swaziland to eSwatini, or “land of the Swati”
2020 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.
2020 - Together At Home concert for COVID-19 aid curated by Lady Gaga and streamed worldwide
2020 - UK COVID-19 death toll reaches 16,060 (hospitals only), as "The Sunday Times" criticizes Boris Johnson's government's response, saying they "sleepwalked into disaster"
2020 - Turkey passes Iran to become the Middle Eastern country with the most COVID-19 cases with 86,306 infections, Iran continues to have the most deaths
2021 - NASA successfully flies its drone helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, first powered aircraft to fly on another world
2021 - Cuba's Communist party announces Miguel Díaz-Canel will replace Raúl Castro as party leader, after the latter steps down
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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