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GENERAL OUTLOOK
The warming trend is expected to continue this weekend with a return to more seasonal mid-fall temperatures. Warm and dry conditions continue into the first half of the week before a weak frontal system brings a small chance of rain by mid-week. Warm and dry conditions return behind the front through the end of the week.
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 Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Light and variable winds.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Tuesday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Tuesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s.
Tuesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Light and variable winds.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Tuesday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Tuesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Light and variable winds.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Tuesday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.
Tuesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight. While relative humidity levels will not be as low as they have been, please use caution when burning outdoors.
Record Weather Events for October 23rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 82°F in Franklin in 1978
Lowest Temperature 20°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1952
Greatest Rainfall 2.64 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1945
Greatest Snowfall (snowfall has not been observed on this date since record-keeping began)
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
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Hilda)
Record Weather Events for October 23rd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 94°F in Shelby Cleveland County in 1941
Lowest Temperature 10°F in Marshall, Madison County in 1919
Greatest Rainfall 6.63 inches in Marion, McDowell County in 1900
Greatest Snowfall 4.0 inches in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1923
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 23 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Central Subtropical Atlantic:
A trough of low pressure located well to the east of Bermuda is producing limited shower activity. Although environmental conditions appear only marginally conducive for development during the next few days, the disturbance could still acquire some subtropical or tropical characteristics early this week while it moves generally west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph across the subtropical Atlantic. By the middle part of this week, further development appears unlikely as the system turns northward over the cooler waters of the northwestern Atlantic and encounters stronger upper-level winds.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
Smoke fields from fires across the southeast will be crossing the county today.
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 lower range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range 2.9 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.6 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.
RECEPTION FOR RETIRING POLICE CHIEF BILL HARRELL
A reception for the retiring Franklin Police Chief will be held at the Franklin Town Hall (lower level) on Monday, November 7th from 2pm to 5pm.
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Local and State News
• NC Board of Election issues warning of misinformation on mailers [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Suspended NC sheriff had a pattern of corruption, vindictiveness, new court filing says [Raleigh News and Observer]
• NC Center for Missing Persons launches new website [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Youths rescued from Tuckaseigee [The Sylva Herald]
• New high school focus of joint meeting [Macon County News and Shopping Guide]
Joint Meeting Between the Macon County Board of Commissioners and the Macon County Board of Education | Macon Media
• 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 22 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for October 22nd]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 241 [Al Jazeera]
The Three Reasons the Russia-Ukraine War Hasn't Ended | William Spaniel
Russian troops begin Belarus deployment | DW News
Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 12. Habsburg Curiosity | Yale Courses
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
--> • Ukraine fights to recapture Kherson from Russia [DW News]
• Russian authorities urge residents to leave Kherson ‘immediately’ [Al Jazeera]
• Zelensky says Russia launched 36 rockets in 'massive attack' on Ukraine [France 24]
• Ukraine’s Home Heating Network Threatened by Russian Attacks [Wall Street Journal]
• Ukraine war: Massive Russian strikes target energy grid - Zelensky [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• US could directly intervene in Ukraine – ex-CIA chief [Russia Today]
• White House concerned about Elon Musk's recent remarks on Ukraine [Pravda ]
• Soyuz-2.1b launches Gonets-M satellites, first Sfera module from Vostochny spaceport [TASS Russian News Agency]
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 22 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for October 22nd]
• Iran Shifts Tactics to Use Covert Police, Tech to Crack Down on Protests [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSj (article archive)]
• Iran schoolgirl dies after being beaten by security forces, teachers' union says [France 24]
Xi in control at China's Communist Congress as ex-president removed | FRANCE 24 English
• China reaffirms Xi’s dominance, removes No. 2 Li Keqiang [AP News]
• China’s Xi Jinping Moves to Extend Rule as Top Communist Party Rivals Retire [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ (article archive)]
• EXPLAINER: Why the British public is not choosing its leader [AP News]
• Man says he secretly lowered his town’s water fluoride for over a decade [ARS TECHNICA]
• Federal appeals court temporarily blocks student loan forgiveness plan [WNYW-TV (New York City, NY)]
• RNC sues Google claiming campaign emails being sent to spam folders [CNN]
• Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American And Oscars Protest Icon, Was An ‘Ethnic Fraud’ – Report [Deadline]
• Trump Could Harness Unresolved Legal Issues to Resist Jan. 6 Panel’s Subpoena [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ (article archive)]
C-SPAN's In The Classroom Podcast: C-SPAN’s 2023 StudentCam Documentary Competition | C-SPAN Podcast
American Terror: The Military’s Problem With Extremism In the Ranks | Vice News
Global National: Oct. 22, 2022 | Boris Johnson reportedly eyeing comeback after Truss’ resignation
Nightly News Full Broadcast (October 22nd)
PBS NewsHour full episode, October 22, 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 6:24pm CEST, 21 October 2022, there have been 623,893,894 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,553,936 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 19 October 2022, a total of 12,814,704,622 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:24pm CEST, 21 October 2022, there have been 95,726,462 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,054,617 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 14 October 2022, a total of 620,131,694 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Long covid: Hair loss and sexual dysfunction are among wider symptoms, study finds [The Bristish Medical Journal]
• COVID-19 pandemic fatigue and its sociodemographic and psycho-behavioral correlates: a population-based cross-sectional study in Hong Kong [Nature" Scientific Reports]
• Newer coronavirus subvariants ticking up in California amid concerns of winter wave [Los Angeles Times]
• Why hospitals won't keep universal masking around forever [Becker's Hospital Review]
• Is it cold, COVID or the flu? Experts say its ‘very difficult’ to differentiate [Global News]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Apple Watch heart rate notifications helped 12-year-old girl discover and treat cancer [9to5 Mac]
• Alan McLachlan, an engineer key to the invention of the PDF, dies at 58 [Protocol]
• Why US tech controls on China could end up hurting American semiconductors [Yahoo! Finance]
• India launches 36 internet satellites delayed by Ukraine war [AP News]
• SpaceX launches 64th batch of Starlink internet satellites on Falcon 9 rocket [Florida Today]
• Meta threatens to block news content in Canada over media revenue-sharing legislation [Engadget]
• Amazon is quietly shutting down Fabric.com, one of the largest online fabric stores [The Verge]
• New AI tool colorizes black-and-white photos automatically [Updated] [ARS TECHNICA]
• New chip transmits a record breaking 1.84 petabits of data per second [Interesting Engineering]
• Fall of Civilizations #16. Bagan - City of Temples [SOURCE]
• 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
Soyuz-2.1b launches Skif-D and three Gonets-M satellites | SciNews
OneWeb 14 launch (OneWeb India-1 mission) | SciNews
How SpaceX is Returning Falcon Heavy to Flight | NASA Spaceflight
Giant Prehistoric Predatory Worms | Ben G Thomas
Strange Ripple Structures Found at the Edge of the Solar System | Antov Patrov
SpaceX's Double Starship Action, Starlink Airplane Support, JWST Pillars of Creation and more! | Marcus House
Foods That Warm Your Body in Winter | RoseRed Homestead -- That "Woman with a Gadget"
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X: Cost to Manufacture? | TechTechPotato
How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara | Real Life Lore
SpaceX Starbase, Tx Flyover October 20, 2022 | RGV Aerial Photography
AI The Final Countdown | Janson Media
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> The War With Ukraine is Coming Home to Russians | Vice News
Al Jazeera visits a Ukrainian military post near Russian border | Al Jazeera
Ukraine sees fresh blackouts after Russia targets energy facilities | DW News
Russian strikes target Ukraine energy infrastructure | FRANCE 24 English
What If Ukraine Joined NATO Today | Infographics
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On This Day
October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 69 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)
4004 BC – James Ussher's proposed creation date of the world according to the Bible.
42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six.
502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1086 – Spanish Reconquista: At the Battle of Sagrajas, the Almoravids defeats the Castilians, but are unable to take advantage of their victory.
1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the Danish Civil War.
1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
1641 – Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, so as to force concessions.
1642 – The Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the English Civil War.
1707 – The First Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain convenes.
1812 – General Claude François de Malet begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon, claiming that the Emperor died in the Russian campaign.
1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Westport is the last significant engagement west of the Mississippi River.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe.
1911 – The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1927 – The Imatra Cinema was destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people died in the fire and almost 30 were injured.
1940 – Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War.
1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a U.S. Army Air Force bomber near Palm Springs, California.
1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
1955 – Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.
1955 – The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite with West Germany instead of France.
1956 – Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the Hungarian Revolution.
1958 – Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued.
1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me.
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
1982 – A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured.
1983 – Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French Army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1989 – The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.
1989 – An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314.
1991 – Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena.
1998 – Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum.
2001 – Apple Computer releases the iPod.
2002 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2007 – A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform.
2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2011 – The Libyan National Transitional Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
2015 – The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.
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Published at 2:30am on Sunday, October 23, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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