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OUTLOOK
Warm high pressure will persist over our region through most of the week. A cold front will approach the southern Appalachians from the northwest on Thursday and cross southeast of our area on Friday. High pressure will return over the weekend, with cooler temperatures. Resurgent high pressure will bring warmer temperatures to the area again early next week.
Public Hearing and Election Board Meeting
The Macon County Elections Board has moved their meeting during which they will have a [public hearing on the Election Protest filed by Mr. Robert Cook concerning the tabulation of the Primary 2022 Election votes in Macon County. After the protest is nahdled, the board will then finalize the canvass in the 2022 primary that was started Friday. A video of that meeting is posted below. The board will also conduct a recount in the Sheriffs race beginning at 9am on Thursday, June 2nd in the gymnasium of the Robert C Carpenter Building (2888 Georgia Road). This is expected to take several hours to complete, with the results perhaps being available sometime in the early-to-mid afternoon. Macon Media will stream both events live, provided there is enough bandwidth available.
Election Canvass (05-27-2022) | Macon Media
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain is 40%.
Thursday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a chance of showers between 8pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Chance of rain is 30%.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 40%.
Thursday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain is 40%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Tue May 31 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Near the Yucatan Peninsula and Southeastern Gulf of Mexico:
A large and complex area of low pressure is expected to develop near the Yucatan Peninsula and the northwestern Caribbean Sea in a couple of days, partially related to the remnants of Tropical Storm Agatha from the eastern Pacific. Despite strong upper-level winds over the area, this system could become a tropical depression while it moves northeastward over the northwestern Caribbean Sea and southeastern Gulf of Mexico late this week. Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall is likely across portions of southeastern Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, and Belize during the next few days, spreading across western Cuba, southern Florida, and the Florida Keys by the end of the week.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
No smoke fields will be crossing Macon County today, no map was produced.
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 middle range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range 6.8 out of 12) today with Grasses, Mulberry, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (6.8 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for May 31st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 90°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2011
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Franklin in 1984
Greatest Rainfall 2.94 inches in Highlands in 2018
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Record weather events for May in Macon County
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of May Data available from 1873 to 2018 Highest Temperature 92°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-20-1996
Lowest Temperature 23°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-02-1963
Greatest Rainfall 5.97 inches in Highlands on 05-30-2018
Greatest Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands on 05-07-1992
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
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Public Hearing and Election Board Meeting
The Macon County Elections Board has moved their meeting to the Commissioners Boardroom at 3pm today during which they will have a public hearing on the Election Protest filed by Mr. Robert Cook concerning the tabulation of the Primary 2022 Election votes in Macon County. After the protest is handled, the board will then finalize the canvass in the 2022 primary that was started Friday. A video of that meeting is posted below. The board will also conduct a recount in the Sheriffs race beginning at 9am on Thursday, June 2nd in the gymnasium of the Robert C Carpenter Building (2888 Georgia Road). This is expected to take several hours to complete, with the results perhaps being available sometime in the early-to-mid afternoon. Macon Media will stream both events live, provided there is enough bandwidth available.
Election Canvass (05-27-2022) | Macon Media
Sunday, June 5th
Friends of the Macon County Public Library 50th Anniversary Open House
Share your memories...see the "time capsule"...tour the visual history...enjoy refreshments...dance to live music...and see the mock-up of stained glass windows that the Friends of the Library will be gifting to the MCPL.
Friday, June 11th
2022 WNC Jeepfeste
The 3rd Annual WNC JeepFest will be held June 10 and 11, 2022 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds in Maggie Valley, NC!
Here’s your chance to check out the amazing features that only Haywood County can provide! We have unique trails that are only found in Western North Carolina.
Our event will feature both automotive and food vendors, along with other enticing attractions. We’re also offering guided rides on 6/10, 6/11 and 6/12 to different areas of the surrounding countryside. All of these rides are stock friendly!
Like helping cats and dogs too? Awesome; so do we! All of the proceeds from WNC JeepFest go to Sarge’s Animal Rescue, right here in Haywood County!
We can’t forget our host Jeep club, WNC Jeepers! Without them, this event would still be a dream!
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Local and State News
2022 Memorial Day Ceremony in Franklin, NC | Macon Media
• Hundreds of Asheville Memorial Day Weekend tubing reservations canceled due to water level [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• NC law suspends drivers' licenses for speeding more than 15 mph [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• North Carolina man who won $10M lottery prize sentenced to life in prison [WSOC-TV (Charlotte, NC)]
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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, May 30 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF]
How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine | Perun
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (May 24th)
1/ Ukrainian TVD, Day 80-88. The past 9 days has seen one of the most fluid periods to date in the Russo-Ukrainian War. The most significant developments have been the surrender of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol & the Russian breakthrough around Popasna. #UkraineRussiaWar #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/QWI1lEQdWn
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) May 24, 2022
• Could Lithuania’s proposed naval coalition break blockade on Ukraine grain? [Lithuanian Radio and Television]
• New York, Ukraine: A town's dreams fade [DW News]
• Putin ready to facilitate export of grains from Ukraine: Kremlin [A l Jazeera]
• EU agrees ban on 'more than two thirds' of Russian oil imports [France 24]
• Bombed Bridges, Closed Ports Keep Ukrainian Grain From a World That Needs It [Wall Street Journal]
• Security Service of Ukraine: Russians ready to kill their generals that force soldiers to fight [Yahoo! News]
• Putin is increasingly angry in public but top US intel and military experts warn there's no 'credible' evidence that he's ill [Business Insider]
• NATO looks to 'historic' Madrid summit, with Sweden, Finland [ABC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Russia may halt gas supplies to the Netherlands [Russia Today]
• How deeply has Western propaganda affected you? [Pravda ]
• Yumashev quits as Putin’s unsalaried adviser — Yeltsin Center deputy director [TASS Russian News Agency]
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• NATO is no longer bound by commitments to Russia and will beef up Eastern Europe presence, says deputy secretary general [Lithuanian National Radio and Television]
• title [SOURCE]
• Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass shooting, police say [NBC News]
• Pelosi's husband charged with DUI [CNN]
• Gun makers lose challenge to New York law allowing lawsuits against industry [CNBC]
• Armed female bystander kills man firing at party in West Virginia [BBC News]
• Organic strawberries likely cause of hepatitis A outbreak in U.S., Canada [Washington Post]
• In these locations, a gallon of gas costs more than the federal minimum wage [CBS News]
Roe v Wade Opinion Leak (Read the Draft Opinion for Yourself)
Read the leaked your at Google Drive or below:
President Biden honors veterans during Memorial Day ceremony | ABC News
Global National: May 30, 2022 | Canada's military needs overhaul, new sexual misconduct report says
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - May 30th, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode May 30th, 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 5:16pm CEST, 30 May 2022, there have been 526,182,662 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,286,057 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 24 May 2022, a total of 11,811,627,599 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:16pm CEST, 30 May 2022, there have been 82,853,070 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 996,108 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 20 May 2022, a total of 575,410,180 vaccine doses have been administered.
• TWiV 903: COVID-19 clinical update #116 with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TVE]
• TWiV 904: 50 years of reverse transcriptase [Microbe TV]
• You Are Going to Get COVID Again … And Again … And Again [The Atlantic]
• How nasal COVID-19 vaccines can help prepare for infection where it starts [PBS Newshour]
• Fever, body aches, loss of smell: New COVID study charts evolution of symptoms [San Fransisco Chronicle]
• COVID lessons from Japan: the right messaging empowers citizens [Nature]
• Wastewater surveillance provides crucial COVID data, but also carries privacy concerns: scientists [CBC Radio]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• How a cheap component could help kill off combustion cars [Reuters]
• Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work [The Atlantic]
• France bans English gaming tech jargon in push to preserve language purity [The Guardian]
• Infectious Disease Puscast #3 [Microbe TV]
• Low-Cost Gel Harvests Drinking Water From Dry Desert Air [SciTechDaily]
• No driver: Fully autonomous cars now navigate some roads in Austin, Texas [USA Today]
• Stanford-led research finds small modular reactors will exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste [Stanford News]
• US retakes first place from Japan on Top500 supercomputer ranking [Engadget]
• A surveillance AI firm with hidden ties to China is seeking US infrastructure contracts [Protocol]
• New Solar Panel Design Uses Wasted Energy to Make Water From Air [CNET]
• 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 May 31 2022: Farewell, Mr.Dorsey
Infectious Disease Puscast #3
How SpaceX's Starship Will Survive Reentry | NASA Spaceflight
Late May 2022 Central Plains Tech Test - Live Field Coverage (Part 1) | HurricaneTrack
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Sinking of the Cruiser Moskva: History, Importance, Consequences | Kings and Generals
How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine | Perun
Fierce fighting underway in Sievierodonetsk, situation 'indescribably difficult' | DW News
The Punisher Drone: The Ukrainian Drone that Russia Hates | Megaprojects
EU leaders agree to Russian oil ban after compromise with Hungary | Al Jazeera
French journalist killed in east Ukraine while reporting on evacuating civilians | FRANCE 24
Battle continues for eastern Ukraine, French journalist killed
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On This Day
May 31 is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 214 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)
1279BC - Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great becomes Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt (19th Dynasty)
AD70 - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
1293 – Mongol invasion of Java was a punitive expedition against King Kertanegara of Singhasari, who had refused to pay tribute to the Yuan and maimed one of its ministers. However, it ended with failure for the Mongols. Regarded as establish City of Surabaya
1495 – Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League
1531 – "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted
1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England, to Frobisher Bay, Canada. Eventually mines fools gold, famously used to pave the streets of London.
1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
1621 - Sir Francis Bacon imprisoned in the Tower of London for 1 night
1669 – Citing poor eyesight as a reason, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
1790 – Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1795 – French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
1805 – French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock, Martinique.
1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
1862 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
1879 – Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1884 – The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1902 – Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
1910 – The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
1911 – The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1911 – The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet engages the High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1921 – The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
1935 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
1941 – Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
1947 – Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government. [8]
1951 – The Uniform Code of Military Justice takes effect as the legal system of the United States Armed Forces.[9]
1955 – The U.S. Supreme Court expands on its Brown v. Board of Education decision by ordering district courts and school districts to enforce educational desegregation "at all deliberate speed."
1961 – The South African Constitution of 1961 becomes effective, thus creating the Republic of South Africa, which remains outside the Commonwealth of Nations until 1 June 1994, when South Africa is returned to Commonwealth membership.
1961 – In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1970 – The 7.9 Mw Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794 and 70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
1985 – United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1991 – Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II peacekeeping mission.
2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat".
2008 – Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7 m/s) 9.72 seconds
2010 – Israeli Shayetet 13 commandos boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla while still in international waters trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip; nine Turkish citizens on the flotilla were killed in the ensuing violent affray.
2013 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
2013 – A record breaking 2.6 mile wide tornado strikes El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, causing eight fatalities and over 150 injuries.
2016 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launch the Manbij offensive, in order to capture the city of Manbij from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
2017 - Comedienne Kathy Griffin fired from CNN after photo of her holding bloody head resembling Donald Trump by Tyler Shields posted
2017 – A car bomb explodes in a crowded intersection in Kabul near the German embassy during rush hour, killing over 90 and injuring 463.
2018 - Kim Kardashian West meets US President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform
2019 – Disgruntled employee shoots and kills 12 people at a US municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia
2021 - China's ruling Communist Party announces it will allow married couples to have three children, in effort to boost falling birthrates
2021 - Peru says its COVID-19 death toll is three times higher than its official count (180,764 vs 68,000), making it one of the hardest hit countries per capita
2021 - Tulsa, Oklahoma, marks 100 year anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of black residents by a white mob in the Greenwood neighborhood
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Published at 3:45am on Thursday, May 31, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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