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Monday, May 30, 2022

News and Weather Briefing for Monday, May 30, 2022



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Russo-UKrainian War Updates
National News Roundup
COVID-19 News and Updates
Science and Technology
Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
On This Day
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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.

American Legion Post 108 will host the annual Memorial Day Ceremony to honor members of the US Military who lost their lives while in service will begin at 11am at the Veterans Memorial located beside the Rovert C Carpenter Building at 1288 Georgia Road. Arrive early in you want seating. Macon Media will attempt to livestream the event on [xxx]

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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Wednesday Night





Franklin Area

Memorial Day

A slight chance of showers before 8am, then a chance of showers after 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the southwest in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.

Tuesday

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 60.


Highlands Plateau

Memorial Day

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 8 mph.

Tonight

A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am, then a slight chance of showers between 1am and 3am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.

Tuesday

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s. Light and variable winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 80.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 60.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Memorial Day

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the southeast.

Tuesday

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s.


Nantahala Area

Memorial Day

Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the southeast.

Tuesday

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 80.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s.







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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Hazardous weather is not expected today. Air quality will be reduced as a diffuse smoke field from fires in the southwest cross the region today and tonight.



TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK




Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon May 30 2022

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

1. Near the Yucatan Peninsula:
A large and complex area of low pressure is expected to develop across Central America, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the southwest Gulf of Mexico in a few days, partially related to the remnants of Hurricane Agatha from the eastern Pacific. Some gradual development is possible within this system in the far southwest Gulf of Mexico by mid-week or in the northwest Caribbean by the latter part of this week as it drifts eastward or northeastward. Regardless of development, locally heavy rains will be possible across southern Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, and Belize through the week.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent.



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Almanac

24 Hour Smoke Forecast

A very diffuse smoke field will be crossing Macon County today, no map was produced.











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 lower range of yellow.

Fire and Smoke Map




Local Air Monitor



Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range 6.9 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 30th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 90°F in Franklin in 1953
Lowest Temperature 34°F in Highlands in 1984
Greatest Rainfall 5.97 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)


Monday, May 30th Annual Memorial Day Ceremony The American Legion Post 108 cordially invites you to a Memorial Day Ceremony of Remembrance and Hope. Please join us in honoring the brave men and women who gave their life so we may live free. Monday, May 30th at 11:00am. Veterans Memorial beside the Carpenter Community Center.





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Local and State News

• Word from the Smokies: Asheville renovator breathes new life into Cataloochee structures [Asheville Citizen-Times]

• Memorial Day services taking place across the mountains [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• First poll in NC-11 predicts tight race between Beach-Ferrara, Edwards [Smoky Mountain News]

• Edwards will campaign on experience in quest for 11th [The Sylva Herald]

• Beach-Ferrara to take her campaign to the people [The Sylva Heraldx]

• Deputies asking for help identifying duo accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at Cumberland County churches [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, 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 29 [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)





• Ukrainian Presidential Office: Russians hysterical after US shipment of MLRS systems to Ukraine [Yahoo! News]

• ‘It destroys bunkers’: Russia systematically uses thermobaric warheads in Ukraine. [New York Times Post]

• Ukraine: Zelenskyy rules out 'military means' to regain all lost territory — as it happened [DW News]

• Ukraine war: Eurovision trophy sold to buy drones for Ukraine [BBC News]

• Zelensky visits Ukraine's east as Russia makes push for Donbas [France 24]

• Ukraine Renews Calls for Weapons as Zelensky Visits Troops in Northeast [Wall Street Journal]

• Ukraine suffers in Donbas, Kyiv pleads for more help [Courthouse News Service]

• Russia puts ‘all its resources’ into capture of key Ukraine city [Al Jazeera]

• Two civilians killed as Russian troops enter Sievierodonetsk - governor [Jerusalem Post]


News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective

• EU unity on Russia sanctions ‘crumbling’ – Germany [Russia Today]

• Viktor Yanukovych: Ukraine on the verge of total annihilation [Pravda ]

• Lavrov rejects rumors of Putin’s worsening health [TASS Russian News Agency]

The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective




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National and World News Roundup

• 7 States Where Unemployment Is at Record Lows [Wall Street Journal]

• More signs that a major shift in the economic narrative could be underway [Yahoo! News]

• In Colombia, a Leftist and a Right-Wing Populist Head for June Runoff [New York Timesx]

Biden in Uvdale | KENS-TV (San Antonio, TX)



• Uvalde tells Biden to ‘do something’; he pledges ‘we will’ [AP News]

Texas Elementary School Shooting: US President Joe Biden visits Uvalde, promises to 'do something' | WION-TV (India)



• New timeline of Texas school shooting includes student 911 calls as officers wait outside[Fort Worth Star-Telegram via MSN]

• O’Rourke headlines gun control rally outside NRA convention in Houston [Courthouse News Service]

Roe v Wade Opinion Leak (Read the Draft Opinion for Yourself)

Read the leaked your at Google Drive or below:



Global National: May 29, 2022 | Biden visits Texas amid calls to action on gun control



NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - May 29th, 2022


PBS NewsHour Full Episode May 29th, 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 5:52pm CEST, 27 May 2022, there have been 525,467,084 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,285,171 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 5:52pm CEST, 27 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.

• Vaccines lower risk of long COVID 15%, death by 34%, data show [CIDRAP]

• 7 Reasons Why Even COVID Skeptics Should Be Concerned [Health Central]

• Inside the race to master supersonic air travel [Washington Post via MSN]

• Asteroid-mining startup books its first mission, launching with SpaceX [Tweak Town]

• SARS-CoV-2 infection: Initial viral load (iVL) predicts severity of illness/outcome, and declining trend of iVL in hospitalized patients corresponds with slowing of the pandemic [National Library of Medicine]

• Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to animals and potential host adaptation [Nature]

• Quantitative and Qualitative Difference in Antibody Response against Omicron and Ancestral SARS-CoV-2 after Third and Fourth Vaccination [MDPI]

• Viruses that were on hiatus during Covid are back — and behaving in unexpected ways [STAT]

• Passenger who broke flight attendant's teeth in mask fight sentenced to 15 months [NBC News]




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Science and Technology News Roundup

• Monkeypox cases are rising—here’s what we know so far [National Geographic]

• How a cheap component could help kill off combustion cars [Reuters]

• Compile GNOME Shell and Apps From Source [Beginner’s Guide] [Debug Point]

• A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate [New York Times]

• AI-engineered enzyme eats entire plastic containers [Chemistry World]

• A surveillance AI firm with hidden ties to China is seeking US infrastructure contracts [Protocol]

• The first act of the streaming wars saga is over — Netflix’s fall from grace has ushered in the pivotal second act [CNBC]

• In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Chinese-Australian battle for control of a massive untapped lithium lode[South China Morning Post]

• Goodbye datacenters, hello cloud: Fidelity’s asset management arm goes all in on AWS [Waters Technology]

• 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

SpaceX Orbital Starship Mystery Pop and Tile Fall, NASA Humans to Mars Plan, Transporter 5, and more | Marcus House



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How TSMC Keeps Getting Better | Asianometry



I CAUGHT SOME NEW QUEEN ANTS (1 of them is SUPER RARE) | Ants Canada



Ship 24 Loses TPS Tiles During Proof Testing | Starship Boca Chica



Go up SpaceX's Starship-catching robotic launch tower with Elon Musk! | Everyday Astronaut



Why Most Planes Don't Need RADAR Tracking Any More | Scott Manley



TWiP 206: Bacteria protect mosquitoes from parasites



Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure | Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur



Prince Rupert's Drop EXPLODING in Epoxy Resin at 456,522 fps - Smarter Every Day 273 | Smarter Every Day



Why California Failed High-Speed Rail






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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



Russia makes advances in Donbas region, Putin 'ready to talk' about lifting grain blockade | DW News



Russia says it won’t use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine | BBC News



NATO’s unity in the war in Ukraine: Real or an illusion? | The Bottom Line



Battle for Donbas: Russian forces close in on strategic city of Severodonetsk | FRANCE 24 English



Russia presses attack in eastern Ukraine | CBS News



Russian forces pound Ukrainian troops in the east







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On This Day

May 30 is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 215 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)





70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
1381 – Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
1416 – The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1431 – Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Roman Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
1434 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by DiviÅ¡ BoÅ™ek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
1510 – During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1574 – Henry III becomes King of France.
1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1631 – Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
1635 – Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are retroactively annulled by Parliament.
1806 – Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
1814 – The First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1792 extent, and restoring the House of Bourbon to power.
1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
1834 – Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
1845 – The Fatel Razack coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first Indians to the country.
1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the U.S. territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
1866 – Bedrich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague.
1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time after a proclamation by John A. Logan, head of the Grand Army of the Republic (a veterans group).
1876 – Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
1883 – In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1913 – The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War; Albania becomes an independent nation.
1914 – The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
1922 – The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1925 – May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
1937 – Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.
1942 – World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1958 – Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
1961 – The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1965 - Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1968 – Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
1972 – In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1974 – The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
1979 – Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
1975 – European Space Agency is established.
1982 – Cold War: Spain joins NATO.
1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1990 – Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
1998 – The 6.5 Mw  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
2003 – Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi flees the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
2008 – Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
2008 – TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport, killing five people.
2012 – Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2013 – Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
2020 – The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011.
2021 - Tens of thousands of people march in Brazilian cities against President Jair Bolsonaro and his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic





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Published at 4:30am on Monday, May 30, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins


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