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GENERAL OUTLOOK
A weak cold front will bring mostly light rain to the region today, with high pressure and drier conditions returning New Year`s Day into Monday. A stronger cold front and associated moisture will approach from the west next Tuesday and slowly cross the region through Wednesday, bringing widespread rain and perhaps some thunderstorms. Cool and dry high pressure is expected to return by the end of next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Showers, mainly before 4pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 3pm. High near 59. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
New Year's Eve
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 40. Calm wind. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
New Year's Day
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Calm wind.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 41. Calm wind.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 70.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers, mainly before 3pm. Widespread fog, mainly between 9am and 10am. High near 54. South wind 6 to 8 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
New Year's Eve
A 20 percent chance of showers before 10pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 39. Northwest wind around 8 mph.
New Year's Day
Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. North northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 39. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 61.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Showers, mainly before 3pm. Patchy fog before 3pm. High near 59. South southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
New Year's Eve
A 20 percent chance of showers before 10pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 41. Calm wind.
New Year's Day
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Light and variable wind.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 42. Calm wind.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 69.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49.
Nantahala Area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 2pm, then showers likely. Patchy fog after 8am. High near 57. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
New Year's Eve
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 42. Light west southwest wind. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
New Year's Day
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 60. Calm wind.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 42. Calm wind.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 65.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
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• Damaging 2022 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
• Atlantic hurricane season ends with 14 named storms [AP News]
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
700 PM EST Wed Nov 30 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
This is the last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on May 15, 2023. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
No known appreciable smoke field will be crossing Macon County today or tonight.
PM2.5 AQI is 50 (GOOD) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 50 (GOOD)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (0.3 out of 12) today with Juniper being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (2.1 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for December 31st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 78°F in Franklin in 1951
Lowest Temperature 2°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1983
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 4.34 inches in Highlands in 2012
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 3.0 inches in Franklin in 1963
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of December Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 78°F in Franklin on 12-31-1951
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Highlands on 12-30-1917
Greatest Rainfall 6.25 inches in Highlands on 12-28-2018
Greatest Snowfall 12.0 inches in Franklin on 12-21-1876
Record Weather Events for December 31st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 82°F in Wilmington, New Hanover County in 2015
Lowest Temperature -5°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1935
Greatest Rainfall 6.12 inches at the Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 2015
Greatest Snowfall 15.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1997
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of December Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 87°F in Edenton, Chowan County on 12-03-1922
Lowest Temperature -21°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 12-30-1917
Greatest Rainfall 7.80 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 12-29-2018
Greatest Snowfall 25.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 12-09-2017
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Macon Calendar
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Local and State News
• Waterline Break in Franklin Repaired, Boil Water Advisory Could End Today [Macon Media]
• Rep. G.K. Butterfield of NC resigns just days before term ends [Raleigh News and Observer] • No voter fraud charges for Mark Meadows [NC DOJ (PDF)] • AG: Meadows won't face voter fraud charges in North Carolina [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)] • Asheville leaders fall short of water restoration goal as outage nears 1-week mark [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)] • Canton water service will be restored soon [Smoky Mountain NewsE]
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 30 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for December 30th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 310 [Al Jazeera]
• LIVEBLOG: Day 311 of Russian aggression against Ukraine [TVP World]
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 310: Russia launches tenth massive missile attack against Ukraine [Euromaiden Press]
M2 Bradleys to Ukraine? - China Intercepts American Plane | FUNKER530 - Veteran Community & Combat Footage
My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Full Episode | Netflix
2022 in review: A year of conflict in Ukraine | Al Jazeera
Timothy Snyder: Making of Modern Ukraine (23 Lectures) | Yale Courses
• Class Syllabus ["The Making of Modern Ukraine," Fall 2022]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Ukraine is ‘first multipolar’ conflict – Dugin [Russia Today]
• Putin is ringing the death knell for NATO [Pravda]
• Putin allows to collect gas supplies debts in unfriendly countries’ currency [TASS]
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National and World News Roundup
• Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93 [ABC News (article and video)]
• Barbara Walters, Pioneering TV Journalist, Dies at Age 93 [Wall Street Journal]
Judy Woodruff's goodbye message to viewers as she departs NewsHour anchor desk | PBS NewsHour
And these are the co-anchors who will be succeeding Judy: WATCH: 7 questions with Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett | PBS NewsHour
• Market Outlook: What Investors Can Expect in 2023 [WSJ (audio podcast and transcript)]
• Iran Crisis Update, December 29 Understanding War] [PDF for December 29th]
• Biden announces year-end pardons [CBS News]
• Drugmakers to raise prices on at least 350 drugs in U.S. in January [Reuters]
• House committee releases Trump’s tax returns [Courthouse News Service]
• Trump Taxes Report [US House Joint Committee on Taxation (PDF)]
• US Supreme Court justice's wife disavows her texts [BBC News]
• Where George Santos' many scandals stand [Politico]
• North Korea fires 3 ballistic missiles just days after flying drones into South, Seoul says [CBS News]
Washington Today (12-30-22): Six years of Donald Trump's tax returns made public | C-SPAN Radio
“We are in a debt trap” - Nouriel Roubini on 10 ‘megathreats’ to our world and how to stop them | Channel 4 News
WATCH: PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff reflects on her career | PBS NewsHour
Global National: Dec. 30, 2022 | Hundreds of Canadians still stuck abroad amid Sunwing struggles
Nightly News Full Broadcast (December 30th)
PBS NewsHour full episode, December 30, 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:
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 4:54pm CET, 23 December 2022, there have been 99,027,628 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,080,010 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 December 2022, a total of 647,345,101 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 4:54pm CET, 23 December 2022, there have been 651,918,402 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,656,601 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 13 December 2022, a total of 13,008,560,983 vaccine doses have been administered.
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• TWiV 970: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• Highly immune evasive omicron XBB.1.5 variant is quickly becoming dominant in U.S. as it doubles weekly [CNBC]
• Australia to ring in 2023 with no COVID restrictions [Reuters]
• What If COVID Reinfections Wear Down Our Immunity? [The Tyee]
• Flu and RSV on the Decline But COVID Hospitalizations Rise [WNBC-TV (New York City, NY)]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations (repeated due to following links) [Bleeping Computer]
• Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer [Schneier on Security]
• EarSpy: Spying Caller Speech and Identity through Tiny Vibrations of Smartphone Ear Speakers [Arxiv (PDF)]
• Tesla told employees not to complain to managers about pay, labor director alleges [Morning Star]
• The U.S. Will Need Thousands of Wind Farms. Will Small Towns Go Along? [New York Times]
• China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions [The Telegraph]
• Fidelity slashes the value of its Twitter stake by over half [TechCeunch]
• Report: Nearly 50% of phishing attacks in 2021 aimed at government employees were attempted credential theft [VentureBeat]
Semi-permanent links
WATCH: Judy Woodruff on journalism ethics in a time of crisis | UVA’s Jim Lehrer Lecture
• Fall of Civilizations #16. Bagan - City of Temples [Fall of Civilizations Podcast]
• 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]
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
Biggest Space Events of 2022 | Universe Today
Tech Predictions for 2023 – DTNS 4426 | Daily Tech News Show
8 Fascinating Discoveries of the James Webb Telescope | ColdFusion
TWiV 970: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Full Episode | Netflix
F-22 Cancellation is Worse than You Think | Task and Purpose |
Incredible Space Discoveries Of 2022 That Blew Our Minds | Anton Petrov
Transhumanism and Humanity’s Future | Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Economic Warfare–How to Quietly Devastate a Country | Warographics
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Full Episode | Netflix
Interview with Noam Chomsky; Ukraine, Nord Stream, NATO and the coming war with China. | SaltCubeAnalytics
M2 Bradleys to Ukraine? - China Intercepts American Plane | FUNKER530 - Veteran Community & Combat Footage
Ammunition shortages in Ukraine - production, supply, & are Russia or the West running dry? | Perun
Why Doesn't Russia Just Move Their Bombers? | Covert Cabal
The Battle for Bakhmut | VICE News
Why Putin spends hundreds of millions on knocking out Kyiv’s grid for eight hours | DW News
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On This Day
December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Years Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day. It is the last day of the year; the following day is January 1, the first day of the following year. It is also the last day of the fourth and final quarter 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)
406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
535 – Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
870 – Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia); many Danes are killed.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Englefield]
1105 – Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV is forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Henry V, in Ingelheim.
1225 – The Lý dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoà ng, starting the Trần dynasty.
1229 – James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon, enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain), thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca.
1501 – The First Battle of Cannanore commences, seeing the first use of the naval line of battle.
1600 – The British East India Company is chartered.
1660 – James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
1670 – The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay, having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.
1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
1757 – Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.
1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
• [Wikipedia: Guinness]
• [Arthur Guinness signed a 9000-year lease for an abandoned brewery in Dublin: Guinness is still brewed at St. James Gate]
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
1796 – The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.
1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1853 – A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.
1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada.
1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, files for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879.
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey. 1901–present
1906 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
1907 – The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.
1942 – USS Essex, first aircraft carrier of a 24-ship class, is commissioned.
1944 – World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front, begins.
1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
1951 – Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.
1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
1956 – The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.
1961 – RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
1963 – The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
1965 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begin a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
1968 – The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
1968 – MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 crashes near Port Hedland, Western Australia, killing all 26 people on board.
1981 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
1983 – The AT and T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
1983 – Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.
1983 – In Nigeria, a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
1992 – Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
1994 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
1994 – The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny.
1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
1999 – The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
• [Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Boris_Yeltsin]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Vladmir Putin]
• [Russia under Vladimir Putin]
• [From spy to president: The rise of Vladimir Putin]
• [Inside Putin's Russia -- Watch the full documentary]
1999 – The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.
2000 – The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.
2004 – The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).
2009 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.
2010 – Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.
2011 – Samoa and Tokelau skip the day of December 30, 2011 as they jump to the other side of the International Date Line, changing their time zones.
2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
2014 – A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
2015 – A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates, located near the Burj Khalifa, two hours before the fireworks display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.
2018 – Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.
2019 – The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• [Nature: A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin]
• [COVID-19 - China]
2020 – The World Health Organization's issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.
• [World Health Organization]
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Published at 65:00am on Saturday, December 31, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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