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Sunday, July 17, 2022

News and Weather Briefing for Sunday, July 17, 2022






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GENERAL OUTLOOK

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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Tuesday Night





Franklin Area

Today

A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday

A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday Night

A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.

Tuesday

A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain is 40%.

Tuesday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.


Highlands Plateau

Today

A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and 1am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.

Monday

A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. WInds out of the southwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday Night

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 60%.

Tuesday

A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain is 50%.

Tuesday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows around 63.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 86. Calm winds becoming south southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light south wind. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday

A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday Night

A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.

Tuesday

A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain is 40%.

Tuesday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.


Nantahala Area

Today

30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the south. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday Night

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 60%.

Tuesday

A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 8am. Partly sunny, with highs near 80.

Tuesday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s.







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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 Sun Jul 17 2022

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

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.

What's Up in the Tropics with Mark Sudduth - July 16, 2022





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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 theupper 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 low range 2.5 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Cenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (2.0 out of 12).



Record Weather Events for July 17th

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

Highest Temperature 98°F in Franklin in 1980
Lowest Temperature 41°F in Highlands in 1904
Greatest Rainfall 2.04 inches in Highlands in 1963
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)


Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of July
Data available from 1873 to 2022

Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on 07-29-1952
Lowest Temperature 34°F in Highlands on 07-27-1911
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on 07-29-1879
Greatest Snowfall no measurable snowfall has been recorded since records started being kept in 1873

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)


No events submitted



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Local and State News


• UNC reaches settlement with Hannah-Jones over tenure saga [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• Monkeypox case reported in county near Charlotte, the 13th in NC [Raleigh News and Observer]

• UNC Health Care System set to pay $125K in damages for violating federal disability rights law [WSOC-TV (Charlotte, NC)]

• Cawthorn introduces bill to prohibit federal funding of travel expenses for abortions [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• Word from the Smokies: Partners help meet needs of Great Smoky Mountains park, visitors [Asheville Citizen-Times]


State Budget Details

• NC Budget Table of Contents [Google Drive (PDF)]

• NC House Bill 103: 2022 Appropriations Act [Google Drive (PDF)]

• Joint Conference Committee Report on the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2022 [Google Drive (PDF)]

• House Bill 103 Information and Voting History [NC General Assembly Website]

• Raises for state employees, preparations for recession, in proposed state budget [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, July 16 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for July 15th]

• ISW Special Report: Russian Volunteer Units and Battalions [Institute for the Study of War]

• Ukraine's harvest becomes the new battlefield, as fires blacken its arable heartlands [CNN]

Vinnytsia, Ukraine Struck by Kalibr - Combat Footage Live Review | Funker530



World at War | Episode 11: Space War between China & United States for dominance of the Moon | WION






JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (Day 98-107)



Jomini of the West has bewen hit hard by COVID, but will be posting a new thread soon --editor



• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 143 [Al Jazeera]

• Russia accused of shelling from Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine [France 24]

• EU prepares for Russia to cut off gas supply over sanctions [DW News]

• Ukraine War: The Donbas body collector who has lost count [BBC News]

• Ukraine Leans on Elon Musk’s Starlink in Fight Against Russia [Wall Street Journal]


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

• Dominance of West is coming to an end, former UK PM says [Russia Today]

• Ukraine wants 300-km range HIMARS missiles from USA [Pravda ]

• Germany lacking gas to get through winter, regulator chief warns [TASS Russian News Agency]

The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer



The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective




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National and World News Roundup

What has Biden gained from his trip to Saudi Arabia? | Inside Story



• The Dollar Is Extremely Strong, Pushing Down the World [New York Times]

• Prosecutors seek 15-year sentence for armed Capitol rioter [AP News]

• Bank of America is fined $225 million for botching pandemic benefits [CBS News]

• Exclusive: Air Force scraps B-21 drone wingman concept [Breaking Defense]

• Mexico detains drug lord wanted by US as 14 killed in Black Hawk helicopter crash [CNN]

• Wildfires rage in France and Spain as heatwaves sear Europe [Reuters]

India to overtake China as world's most populous country | BBC News



• Parroting Trump, GOP primary losers cast doubt on elections [Yahoo! News]

• January 6 committee's investigation stirs up fresh revelations ahead of last planned hearing [CNN]

Global National: July 16, 2022 | Canadian summer temperatures climb up with heat waves, forest fires



Nightly News Full Broadcast - July 16


PBS NewsHour Full Episode July 16th, 2022



• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]



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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:






• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]

Globally, as of 5:16pm CEST, 13 July 2022, there have been 555,446,890 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,353,692 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 12 July 2022, a total of 12,130,881,147 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:16pm CEST, 13 July 2022, there have been 87,673,034 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,011,363 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 8 July 2022, a total of 589,664,214 vaccine doses have been administered.

• Effectiveness of a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine against all-cause mortality in long-term care facility residents and in the oldest old: A nationwide, retrospective cohort study in Sweden [The Lancet]

• Ending transmission of SARS-CoV-2: sterilizing immunity using an intranasal subunit vaccine [BioRxiv (PDF)]

How omicron subvariants are causing a surge in COVID infections | PBS Newshour



• A meta-analysis result: Uneven influences of season, geo-spatial scale and latitude on relationship between meteorological factors and the COVID-19 transmission [Science Direct]

• Peter Hotez: Even fully vaccinated people are at risk from extremely contagious BA.5 variant [Houston Chronicle]

• How the FDA and CDC Are Failing Us on BA.5, the Worst Covid Variant Yet [Rolling Stone]

• Is It Easier to Get COVID-19 Outdoors with BA.5? [Time Magazine]




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Science and Technology News Roundup

• Technical Report: Characterization of JWST science performance from commissioning [Space Telescope Science InstituteE]

• A boarding school in the Berkshires is banning smartphones for students and teachers [Boston Globa]

• 71 Cities and Towns Are Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. It’s Working. [Wall Street Journal]

• When it comes to data on your phone, deleting a text isn't the end of the story [National Public Radio]

• ESPN+ is raising the price of a monthly plan by $3 to $10 [Engadget]

• High gas prices are leading the charge for Americans to go electric when purchasing new vehicles [Northern Kentucky Tribune]

• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Lamplight TV]


Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics

Secret James Webb Image We Weren't Shown + A New Surprise Discovery | Antov Petrov



TWiV 919: Motivated by volatiles | Microbe TV



206: New Red Hat CEO, Linux Mint 21, Lubuntu, Rocky Linux, System76 and more Linux news! | This Week in Linux



World at War | Episode 11: Space War between China & United States for dominance of the Moon | WION



What's Next After James Webb? NASA's Next Big Space Telescope | NASA Spaceflight



Why there is no Arab superstate | Caspian Report



Booster 7 Rolled Back for Repairs | SpaceX Boca Chica | NASA Spaceflight



All Right, We've Gotta Talk About These JWST Images | Random Thursday



Neil and NASA Explain James Webb's First Images | StarTalk






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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)

--> Ukraine says Russia is storing weapons at Europe's biggest nuclear plant | DW News



Ukraine doctors see spike in brain injuries and PTSD | Al Jazeera



Russia-Ukraine war to complete 5 months: Moscow strikes the Ukrainian city of Dnipro | WION



Ukraine War Report | Russian Missiles Hit Dnipro | Day 142 | NEMICO NETWORK



After capturing large parts of Donbas: will Putin have an appetite for more? | To the Point



Power shift on Ukraine’s frontlines? | Binkov's Battlegrounds







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On This Day

July 17th is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 167 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)


180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

1048 – Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.

1203 – The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
• [Wikipedia: Fourth Crusade]
• [Siege of Constantinople (1203)]
• [Fragmentation of the Byzantine Empire by 1203]
• [The Crusade That Ruined Everything]

1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.

1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc.

1453 – Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Castillon]
• [Battle of Castillon 1453 AD - Hundred Years' War]
• [Wikipedia: Hundred Years' War]

1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.

1762 – Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.

1771 – Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.

1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.

1794 РThe 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compi̬gne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.

1821 – The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the United States.

1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.

1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.

1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.

1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• [Wikipedia: Execution of the Romanov family]
• [Brutal Execution of the Romanovs | History]

1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.

1919 – The form of government in the Republic of Finland was officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the Day of Democracy (Kansanvallan päivä) in Finland.

1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
• [Wikipedia: Altona Bloody Sunday]
• [GERMANY: Bloody Sunday]

1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.

1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.

1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
• [Wikipedia: Port Chicago disaster]
• [Aerial Views Of Damage Caused By Port Chicago Disaster, 7/1944 (full) ]
• [The 1944 Port Chicago Disaster]
• [Remembering Port Chicago]
• [Once There Was a Town: The Port Chicago Story]

1944 – World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.

1945 – World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
• [Wikipedia: Potsdam Conference]
• [The Potsdam Conference - When the Cold War began]
• [Potsdam: Agreement to Settle Allied Victory in WWII] (History Roundtable)
• [President Truman Discusses the Potsdam Conference]
• [The Cold War: The Potsdam Conference 1945 - Truman, Attlee and Stalin]
• [Potsdam 1945 - War is Over]

1953 – The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.

1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• [Ronald Reagan at the Opening of Disneyland Park]

1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
• [Little Feller (nuclear tests)]
• [M388 Davy Crockett Operational Test]
• [The Davy Crockett: America's Tactical Nuclear Weapon]

1968 – Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.

1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan.

1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

1976 – East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.

1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.

1979 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.

1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.

1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.

1985 РFounding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states Fran̤ois Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).

1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.

1989 – Holy See–Poland relations are restored.

1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

1998 – The 7.0 Mw  Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.

1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

2000 – During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.

2001 – Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.

2006 – The 7.7 Mw  Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.

2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.

2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.

2014 – A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.

2015 – At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.

2018 – Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter.



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Published at 6:00am on Sunrday, July 17, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins


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