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GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure over the area will bring cooler daytime temperatures into the weekend. Expect rain chances to increase this weekend and into early next week as a low pressure system approaches from the Gulf states. Drier weather and mild temperatures return Tuesday into mid next 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 Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 70. Light winds out of the northeast.
Tonight
Patchy drizzle after 4am. Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Saturday
Patchy drizzle and fog before 8am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Showers likely, mainly after 11am. Cloudy, with highs near 60. Chance of rain is 70%.
Sunday Night
Showers, mainly before 1am. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 80%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph.
Tonight
Patchy drizzle after 4am. Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northeast 3 to 5 mph.
Saturday
Patchy drizzle before 8am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Showers likely, mainly after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 50. Chance of rain is 70%.
Sunday Night
Showers, mainly before 3am. Lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light winds out of the northeast.
Tonight
Patchy drizzle and fog after 5am. Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Saturday
Patchy drizzle and fog before 8am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Light winds out of the east.
Sunday
Showers likely, mainly after 11am. Cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Sunday Night
Showers, mainly before 2am. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 80%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Patchy drizzle after 5am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Sunday
Showers likely, mainly after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Sunday Night
Showers, mainly before 1am. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 80%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Record Weather Events for October 28th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2014
Lowest Temperature 15°F in Highlands in 1903
Greatest Rainfall 3.30 inches in Highlands in 1918
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 28th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 91°F in Salisbury, Rowan County in 1919
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1976
Greatest Rainfall 4.15 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1981
Greatest Snowfall 2.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2008
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 Fri Oct 28 2022 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: 1. Southwestern Atlantic: A trough of low pressure over the southwestern Atlantic Ocean continues to produce a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. A surface low pressure system is forecast to emerge along the northern portion of the trough axis later tonight or on Friday, and some subsequent development could occur through Saturday. By late Saturday, upper-level winds are forecast to become less conducive for development, and the low is expected to begin interacting with an approaching frontal system. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent. 2. Eastern Caribbean: An area of low pressure is expected to form over the eastern Caribbean Sea this weekend, possibly related to the southern portion of an existing trough of low pressure over the area. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression could form early next week while the disturbance moves generally westward or west-northwestward over the central Caribbean Sea. * 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
Smoke fields from fires across the southeast will be crossing the county today.
Air quality is in the opper 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 2.8 out of 12) today with Ragweed and Chenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.2 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
Macon County Commissioner candidate forum
• The US government wants to argue against NC lawmakers at the Supreme Court [Raleigh News and Observer]
• WCU, officials celebrate opening of new $33 million steam plant with ribbon cutting [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• WNC mourns Lambert Wilson [Smoky Mountain News]
• Highlands volleyball incident makes national news [The Macon County News and Shopping Guide]
Joint Meeting Between the Macon County Board of Commissioners and the Macon County Board of Education | 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 27 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for October 27th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 246 [Al Jazeera]
• Russia threatens a retaliatory strike against US commercial satellites [ARS TECHNICA]
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
--> • Russia-Ukraine War: Putin Rails Against ‘Western Elites’ in Speech Aimed at U.S. Conservatives [New York Times]
• Germany hands over five MARS II MLRS, 14 Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers to Ukraine [Interfax-Ukraine]
• Russia’s Putin says he won’t use nuclear weapons in Ukraine [AP News]
• Russia's 'Iranian drones' tear at Ukrainian infrastructure [DW News]
• In eastern Ukraine, Russian forces continued to bombard the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region [France 24]
• General Sergei Surovikin: Who is Putin's hard-line new commander in Ukraine? [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• ‘No one can sit out the coming storm’: Putin’s milestone Valdai speech [Russia Today]
• Putin: The world is changing, and most difficult decade since WWII is coming [Pravda ]
• Most important decade since end of World War II: Putin’s speech at Valdai club [TASS Russian News Agency]
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National and World News Roundup
• Iran Crisis Update, October 27 [Understanding War] [PDF for October 27th]
• Memorials for 2 Young Women Killed in Iran Galvanize Protests [New York Times]
• Iran’s Secret Manual for Tracking and Controlling Protesters’ Mobile Phones [The Intercept]
• Iran’s Security Forces Open Fire On Mourners In Cemetery [Iran International]
America’s billionaire-owned politics | The Bottom Line
• Schumer caught on hot mic telling Biden that Georgia's Senate race is 'going downhill' for Dems [Yahoo! News]
• U.S. GDP accelerated at 2.6% pace in Q3, better than expected as growth turns positive [CNBC]
• When Will Puerto Rico Have Power? [The Verge]
Jan. 6 rioter sentenced to over 7 years in prison | ABC News
• Facebook's parent is fined nearly $25M for violating a campaign finance disclosure law [National Public Radio]
• ‘I Was Wrong’: Jim Cramer Overcome With Emotion as He Apologizes For Being Wrong About Meta [MEDIAITE]
• Meta needs more control and progress, says Metaverse ETF founder Matt Ball [CNBC]
• This woman was arrested for feeding homeless people. But she says she won't stop [CBC]
• Georgia prosecutor asks high court to force Graham to testify in election probe [Courthouse News Service]
• Trump Schedules Massive Rallies in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio [Election Central]
• Federal judge holds tight-lipped chiefs of election denial group in contempt [Courthouse News Service]
Food security - A growing dilemma | DW Documentary
Washington Today (10-27-22): Closer look crime/policing issues in election campaigns | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Oct. 27, 2022 | Canada's food banks struggle with unprecedented demand
Nightly News Full Broadcast (October 27th)
PBS NewsHour full episode, October 27, 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 5:38pm CEST, 24 October 2022, there have been 624,235,272 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,555,270 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 5:38pm CEST, 24 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.
• Prevalence and Correlates of Long COVID Symptoms Among US Adults [JAMA Network]
• The association between vitamin D status and COVID-19 in England: A cohort study using UK Biobank [PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science)]
• Covid, Flu, RSV: Hospitalizations Rise as Wave of Viruses Hits New York [New York Times]
• China locks down part of Wuhan, nearly three years after first Covid case emerged [The Guardian]
• World’s slow recognition of airborne transmission of COVID was ‘most egregious public health error in modern history’ [UNA: United Nurses of Alberta]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Iran’s Secret Manual for Tracking and Controlling Protesters’ Mobile Phones [The Intercept]
• Elon Musk Twitter Deal Completed, CEO and CFO Immediately Fired [WSJ (video and audio)] [https://archive.ph/mMarY (article archive)]
• Elon Musk now in charge of Twitter, CEO and CFO have left, sources say [CNBC]
• Meta's value has plunged by $700 billion. Wall Street calls it a "train wreck." [CBS News]
Facebook's worth less than Home Depot
Facebook's worth less than Home Depot pic.twitter.com/3nfsalJ05u
— James Crombie (@jtcrombie) October 27, 2022
• Meteorite that smashed into Mars shook planet, NASA says [The Straits Times]
• Father, son convicted in assault spurred by Pokemon Go [AP News]
• Former Philadelphia sheriff's deputy accused of selling guns used in Roxborough H.S. shooting [FOX-29 Philadelphis]
• Terrifying video shows Chinese robot attack dog with machine gun dropped by drone [New York Post]
• YouTube seeks partnerships with “certain categories of healthcare professionals” to improve its medical advice [tubefilter]
• More kids to ride in ‘clean’ school buses, mostly electric [AP News]
• 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
The Level1 Show October 28 2022: Flying Blind | Level1 Techs
You Tweet It Best When You Tweet Nothing At All - DTNS 4383 | Daily Tech News Show
America’s New Tank Needs to Chill Out | Task and Purpose
Hunting Vietcong: The Rise & Immediate Fall of a Counter-Insurgency Aircraft in Vietnam | Military Aviation History
NASA's InSight and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Team Up to Make Science Discovery (Media Briefing)
Next generation Abrams tank presented | Binkov's Battlegrounds
Why Does The Universe Look Like This? | History of the Universe
Never Before Seen Type of Nova Explosion Found In the Milky Way | Antov Petrov
Starlink 4-31 Launch | SpaceX
The Day Technology Went Away | Event Horizon
Falcon Heavy Static Fire Ahead of USSF-44 Mission | NASA Spaceflight
How to Take Over the Universe (in Three Easy Steps) | Rational Animations
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> What We Know About How a Russian Nuclear Strike Could Play Out | WSJ
Ukrainians stick to life underground in war-damaged Bakhmut | Al Jazeera
Why Russia Can't Stop US Weapons | The Infographics Show
War in Ukraine: Putin lashes out against West | DW News
Russian nuclear threats put global security at risk | World News | TVP World
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On This Day
October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 64 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)
97 – Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
312 – Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
969 – The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.
1344 – The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders in response to Aydınid piracy.
1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
1449 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
1453 – Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
1492 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
1516 – Second Ottoman–Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis Khan.
1520 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.
1531 – Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.
1538 – The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.
1628 – French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months.
1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.
1726 – The novel Gulliver's Travels is published.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
1834 – The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
1835 – The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
1864 – American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital of Richmond is repulsed.
1886 – US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1891 – The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.
1893 – Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
1918 – World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
1918 – World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
1922 – Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
1928 – Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
1942 – The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
1948 – Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
1949 – An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.
1956 – Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.
1958 – John XXIII is elected Pope.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
1965 – Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
1971 – Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
1982 – The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
1990 – Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.
1995 – The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
2006 – A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
2009 – US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
2013 – Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.
2014 – A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.
2018 – Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.
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Published at 3:30am on Friday, October 28, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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