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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Cool high pressure will dominate the local weather pattern to start the week and a slow warming trend will last through midweek. A moist cold front arrives from the northwest on Thursday into Friday.
FOG FAIR SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, NOV 5th FROM 10AM TO 4PM
Friends of the Greenway announce their Fall arts and crafts fundraising event. FROG FAIR will be held Nov 5, 2022 from 10-4 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main at the Town bridge in Franklin. Vendor spaces are available (only registration fee goes to FROG)--check our website (littletennessee.org) for registration forms or stop by FROG Quarters. Make sure to mark your calendar--arts and crafts, food, and music will make it a special day. For more information, email frog28734@gmail.com.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy frost and lows this morning in the mid 30s. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Columbus Day
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Lows this morning in the upper 30s. Mostly sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 5 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s. Light and variable winds.
Columbus Day
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm by midmorning.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Lows this morning in the upper 30s. Patchy frost between 7am and 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 68. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Columbus Day
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Lows this morning in the mid 30s. Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the northwest.
Columbus Day
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Record Weather Events for October 9th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 86°F in Highlands in 1939
Lowest Temperature 26°F in Highlands in 1978
Greatest Rainfall 5.10 inches in Highlands in 2017
(The rainfall was due to the remnants of Tropical Storm Five of the 1879 Hurricane Season. This was before storms were named).
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of October Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 10-05-1954
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Franklin on 10-30-1910
Greatest Rainfall 9.91 inches in Highlands on 10-04-1964
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inches in Highlands on 10-20-1913
Record Weather Events for October 9th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 96°F in Dobbins Heights, Richmond County in 2007
Lowest Temperature 18°F on Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2000
Greatest Rainfall 12.20 inches in Red Springs, Robeson County in 2016
Greatest Snowfall (there was no snow recorded in this date in the state)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of October Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 103°F in Wadesboro, Anson County on 10-03-2019
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 10-21-1952
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 12.53 inches in Lumberton, Robeson County on 10-08-2016
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 11.0 inches on Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 10-25-1990
Climate Normals Accumulated Rainfall for the Year to October 1st
Franklin 42.38 inches
Coweeta Experimental Station 53.91 inches
Highlands 65.66 inches
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sun Oct 9 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Julia, located near the coast of Nicaragua in the southwestern Caribbean Sea.
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
What's Up in the Tropics with Mark Sudduth - October 8, 2022
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
A smoke fieldmap was not provided for today. -->
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 low-medium range 4.1 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (4.4 out of 12).
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
FROG FAIR SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, NOV 5th from 10AM TO 4PM
Friends of the Greenway announce their Fall arts and crafts fundraising event. FROG FAIR will be held Nov 5, 2022 from 10-4 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main at the Town bridge in Franklin. Vendor spaces are available (only registration fee goes to FROG)--check our website (littletennessee.org) for registration forms or stop by FROG Quarters. Make sure to mark your calendar--arts and crafts, food, and music will make it a special day. For more information, email frog28734@gmail.com.
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Local and State News
• Man with Down syndrome fired from Wendy's (in Gaston County) after 20 years [KTRK-TV (Houston, TX)]
• Texas Pete hot sauce facing lawsuit because it’s made in North Carolina, not Texas [WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)]
• North Carolina governor pushes to legalize marijuana possession following Biden's pardon [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Dogwood Health Trust approved $74 million in grants in 2022 [BPR]
• Roll Call: Here's how WNC's members of Congress voted the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6 [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• How to judge a judge: A guide for North Carolina voters [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners - September 2022 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• Franklin Town Council - September 2022 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• Franklin Town Council - Special Called Meeting for August 30, 2022 [Macon Media]
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, October 08 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for October 8th]
Ukrainian mobilisation & force generation - Featuring General Ben Hodges (Ret.) | Perun
Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 9. Polish Power and Cossack Revolution
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 227 [Al Jazeera]
Biden delivers chilling remarks about how close world is to nuclear war | Global National
JOMINI OF THE WEST MAP (UTVD Operational Update: ZSU Counter Offensive in Kharkiv, 10-12 Sep 22.)
1/ UTW – Operational Update: ZSU Counter Offensive in the Donbas, 04-10 Sep. The ZSU is engaged in what may likely become the most stunningly successful counteroffensive since the IDFs OPERATION GAZELLE during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. #ukrainecounteroffensive #UkraineWillWin pic.twitter.com/nrC8cg02ia
— Jomini of the West (@JominiW) September 10, 2022
• A look at history helps to understand the war in Ukraine [Courthouse News Service]
• Putin’s bridge of dreams explodes in flames [Washington Post]
• ‘Shrinking operation’: Russia names new Ukraine war commander [SOURCE]
• Russia-Ukraine updates: Putin increases security after Crimea bridge blast [DW News]
• Crimean bridge: Excitement and fear in Ukraine after bridge blast [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Crimean Bridge explosion: What we know so far [Russia Today]
• Crimea Bridge explosion: Two road sections partially collapse [Pravda ]
• Russia ready to contribute to solution of global food problems — Putin [TASS Russian News Agency]
Would Ukraine joining NATO start World War III? | Fox News
Sep 7, 2022 | Eastern Economic Forum plenary session | kremlin
Putin speaks at concert to celebrate 'annexation' of Ukrainian regions | CNBC Television
The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective
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National and World News Roundup
• Iran Crisis Update, October 08 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for October 8th]
• Fed’s Inflation Fight Has Some Economists Fearing an Unnecessarily Deep Downturn [Wall Street Journal]
• Another supply chain crisis: Barge traffic halted on Mississippi River by lowest water levels in a decade [CNN]
• North Korea launches two more ballistic missiles [Yahoo! News]
• Exxon illegally fired two scientists suspected of leaking information to WSJ, Labor Department says [CNN]
• Planes With Dozens of Unaccompanied Teen Migrants Land in NY, With Little Notice Given [WNBC-TV (New York City, NY)]
• ‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions [New York Times]
• Trump holds rally in Nevada [The Hill (video)]
• Agent saw Oath Keepers leader with 90s-era badge to access US Capitol ‘unescorted’ [Courthouse News Service]
• Sheriff Villanueva bans inspector general from department facilities [Los Angeles Times]
• New Florida records raise more questions about DeSantis’s migrant flights [Washington Post]
Strategic Competitors: The Future of the US and China Relationship | Asia Society
Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear threat, Iran protests, UK's Liz Truss | FRANCE 24 English
Wall Street Week - Full Show 10/07/2022 | Bloomberg Markets and Finance
Global National: Oct. 8, 2022 | Crimea explosion could lead to escalation in Russia-Ukraine war
Nightly News Full Broadcast (October 08)
PBS NewsHour full episode, October 08, 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 6:28pm CEST, 7 October 2022, there have been 617,597,680 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,532,705 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 4 October 2022, a total of 12,723,216,322 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:28pm CEST, 7 October 2022, there have been 95,260,865 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,050,195 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 16 September 2022, a total of 604,511,670 vaccine doses have been administered.
• A wave of anti-vaccine legislation is sweeping the United States [Vox]
• Boosting with updated COVID-19 mRNA vaccines [Nature Medicine]
• How Many Times Will You Get Covid? [The New Yorker]
• Nearly 4 million Americans received updated COVID boosters last week [Reuters]
• CDC ends daily reporting of COVID case and death data, in shift to weekly updates [CBS News]
• TWiV 943: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• PayPal Pulls Back, Says It Won’t Fine Customers $2,500 for ‘Misinformation’ after Backlash [Yahoo! News]
• Rocket Lab launches NOAA-funded satellite for wildlife tracking [Spaceflight Now]
• DNA offers a new look at how Polynesia was settled [ScienceNews]
• Elon Musk dreams of dying on Mars—now he might be one of the pioneering colonists [Yahoo! News]
• Lufthansa "bans AirTags in luggage" after passengers publicly shame it with location of lost bags [Boing Boing]
• Report: Even Facebook Isn't Using Its Own Metaverse, Begs Employees To Spend Time In It [Kotaku]
• $1.5 million floating home prototype sinks into the water at unveiling [Unilad]
• Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths, according to new lawsuit [ARS TECHNICA]
• Signal is secure, as proven by hackers [Kaspersky]
• The GIF Is on Its Deathbed [The Atlantic]
• 25 tips to help you prepare for the 2024 total solar eclipse [Astronomy Magazine]
• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
Artificial Gravity is Critical for Mars Exploration and Beyond - SpaceX Starship can make this happen! | Marcus House
Cold Fusion is Back (there's just one problem) | Science without the Gobbledygook
Colonizing Planetary Rings | Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur
TEN Episode 405 - F150 Price Hikes, Tesla Semi Coming, Beating Ian | Transport Evolved
Long March-2D launches ASO-S (Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory) | SciNews
Life Extension... for Stars | Cool Worlds
My DREAM ANT COLONY Constructed a Monster Floating Nest | AntsCanada
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Ukrainian mobilisation and force generation - Featuring General Ben Hodges (Ret.) | Perun
Russia Assaults to the Rear in Kherson | Funker 530
GoPro Footage From Ukraine Captures the The Reality of War! | Combat Veteran Reacts
Ukraine holds back Russian advance in Bakhmut, Donetsk | Al Jazeera
Is Belarus Going to Invade Ukraine? | History with Hilbert
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On This Day
October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 83 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)
768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1594 – Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
1604 – Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1740 – Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
1790 – A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
1799 – HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 – Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1825 – Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of the Kingdom of Greece, is assassinated.
1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
1847 – Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sevastopol begins.
1861 – American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens at the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.
1864 – American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.
1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1874 – The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
1900 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
1911 – An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
1913 – The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1914 – World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
1918 – The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland.
1919 – The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
1934 – An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
1936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
1937 – Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 – Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
1950 – The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1963 – In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
1966 – Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.
1967 – A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 – In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1980 – Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
1981 – President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
1983 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
1984 – The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.
1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
1986 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the "fourth" US television network.
1992 – The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2007-2008 financial crises.
2009 – First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
2012 – Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
2016 – The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
2019 – Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.
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Published at 2:30am on Sunday, October 09, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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