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Dry high pressure will persist across the region today, with temperatures steadily recovering. After a dry period on Friday, rain chances will pick up again overnight and on Saturday, with active weather and thunder chances each afternoon, persisting well into the new workweek.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Areas of fog between 8am and 9am. Areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Light and variable wind.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Friday
Partly sunny, with a high near 73. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Saturday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Calm wind becoming south southwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with a high near 66. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. South wind 3 to 5 mph.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. South southeast wind around 6 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 66. South southwest wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy frost between 7am and 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 47. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. Light south southeast wind.
Saturday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 73. Calm wind becoming south southwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy frost between 7am and 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 69. Light and variable wind.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 47. Light and variable wind.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Calm wind becoming south southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 52. Calm wind.
Saturday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 71. Calm wind becoming south southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57.
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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 24 hour High Resolution Rapid Refresh from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction for our area. It runs from 2am EDT today to EDT tomorrow.
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 (9.3 out of 12) today with Oak, Beech, and Birch being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (8.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for April 28th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 88°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1986
Lowest Temperature 23°F in Highlands in 1928
Greatest Rainfall 2.96 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1958
Greatest Snowfall 0.1 inches in Highlands in 1928
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
Macon County Board of Education | April 2022
• The pandemic erased a decade of public preschool gains [BPR News]
• Cawthorn faces misdemeanor for loaded gun at Charlotte airport: police; had gun at AVL [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Fraternal Order of Police Host Forum for 2022 Sheriff Candidates [Macon Media]
• McCrory, Walker attend last NC Senate debate; Budd absent [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Firefly lottery opens soon [Smoky Mountain News]
• Polarizing “urban infill” defines West Asheville’s boom [Mountain Xpress]
• 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 27 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
• Ukraine Invasion Update #24, (04-22-2022) [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
Transnistria; Ukraine Combat Footage (FNN Live) | !merch !discord !website | Funker530
Ukraine: Putin warns of fast response to intervention | DW News
Interview from Hell: Rubizhne, Donbas | Operator Starsky
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (April 22nd)
@Paragondvp
1/ Ukrainian Theater of War, Day 55-57: The past 72 hrs. have seen the Kremlin declare “victory” in Mariupol, with Ukrainian resistance continuing in the Azovstal area. Russia keeps up pressure in the Severodonetsk Salient with only marginal gains. #UkraineRussiaWar #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/H5HE87lgms
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) April 23, 2022
• Mariupol’s Last Stand? Humanitarian Corridor Talks Break Down [The National Interest]
• Russia's Gazprom halts gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria [DW News]
• Ukraine war: Putin warns against foreign intervention [BBC News]
• Will Vladimir Putin succeed in seizing southwestern Ukraine? [Al Jazeera]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• EU country receives gas threat from Africa [Russia Today]
• Poland and Bulgaria kill themselves as they say 'No' to Gazprom [Pravda ]
• Russian embassy blasts US for ignoring global commitments to continue work on bioweapons [TASS Russian News Agency]
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
4.27.22 Funeral for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
• The Madeleine Albright Few Knew [Politico]
• Requirement for federal judges to disclose big stock trades sent to Biden’s desk [Courthouse News Service]
• Trevor Reed's parents describe prisoner swap after former Marine released by Russia [Yahoo! News]
• Disney Strategy Is to Stay Silent to Soften Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Blow [Wall Street Journal]
2022 National and State Teachers of the Year Celebration | White House
Second Chance Month Roundtable | White House
Global National: April 27, 2022 | Russia cuts off gas supply to Poland, Bulgaria over ruble refusal
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 27th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode April 27th, 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 5:22pm CEST, 25 April 2022, there have been 507,501,771 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,220,390 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 18 April 2022, a total of 11,324,805,837 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:22pm CEST, 25 April 2022, there have been 80,174,978 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 983,872 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 15 April 2022, a total of 552,480,933 vaccine doses have been administered.
Q and A with A and V Livestream 4/27/22 8:00 PM | Vincent Racaniello
• Fauci backs out of White House correspondents' dinner over Covid risk [NBC News]
• Global data reveal half may have long COVID 4 months on [CIDRAP]
• The benefits of large scale covid-19 vaccination [The British Medical Journal]
• Dr. Fauci on why the U.S. is ‘out of the pandemic phase’ [PBS Newshour]
• WHO hails lowest weekly Covid death toll since March 2020 [Africa News]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Self-driving lane on I-94 gets $130M from Ford and others [M Live]
• 7 Reasons Why Linux Isn't Dominating the Desktop OS Market [Make Use Of]
• Elon Musk wins shareholder lawsuit over Tesla’s $2.6 billion SolarCity acquisition [SOURCE]
• NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter [Wall Street Journal]
• Twitch Reportedly Considering Cutting Streamer Pay to Boost Its Own Profits [Gizmodo]
• Facebook parent Meta reports weakest revenue growth for a decade as ad sales suffer [Sky News]
• 30,000 New Users Signed Up for Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter [Vice News]
• Tesla shares sink, wipe out over $125 billion in value, as Musk scores Twitter deal [National Public Radio]
• Ordinary copper telephone wire could carry gigabit broadband speeds [New Scientist]
• 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
Live Level1News - Come chat and hang out 5:00 pm eastern
iFixit It With Spot - DTNS 4263 | Daily TechNews Show
How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass | PBS SpaceTime
Creon Levit | Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth
Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #280
Crew-4 Mission | Approach and Docking
The Semiconductor Security War
The Ultimate Guide to Nuclear Weapons | HypoHystericalHistory
How would have WW2 went if the US had not used nuclear bombs on Japan? | Binkov's Battlegrounds
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Putin threatens west over Ukraine 'interference' | DW News
This Map Helps Explain Why the Russia-Ukraine War Hasn’t Ended
How the Czech Republic is supporting Ukraine's fight against Russia
Putin can't resist interfering in the military planning' | James Heappey
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On This Day
April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 247 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)
224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols with the reigning title Oljeitu.
1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1625 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
1758 – The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.
1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
1794 – Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
1920 – The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.
1923 – Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
1930 – The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
1941 – The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
1945 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.
1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1967 – Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
1975 – General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory.
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1978 – The President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
2004 – CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
2018 - World's largest child sacrifice, 140 remains uncovered by archaeologists near Trujillo, Peru, dating back 550 years to Chimú civilization
2019 - TV series "Game of Thrones: The Long Night" episode debuts with the longest battle ever screened (nearly 80 mins), surpassing "Lord of the Rings" Battle of Helm's Deep (44 mins)
2020 - US confirmed cases of COVID-19 pass 1 million, while death toll of 58,365 surpasses that of US soldiers killed in Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins)
2021 - NASA's Parker Solar Probe becomes the first spacecraft to cross the Alfvén critical boundary, the outer atmosphere of the Sun
2021 - US President Joe Biden makes a major speech to a joint session of Congress calling for a new era of government spending
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Published at 4:00am on Thursday, April 28, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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