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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will persist over the region today. Moisture will return Sunday through Sunday night ahead of a cold front approaching from the northwest. The front will stall in the vicinity of the area on Tuesday, with another brief round of precipitation expected. Deeper moisture will likely return ahead of a low pressure system crossing the Deep South Wednesday through Thursday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
Rain, mainly after noon. Highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the south 3 to 6 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfaill amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
Rain likely, mainly before 2am. Cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. Chance of rain is 70%.
Monday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows around 30. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Rain likely, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
Rain, mainly before 3am. Lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight. Chance of rain is 80%.
Monday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 50s.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Rain likely, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
Rain, mainly before 2am. Lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. Chance of rain is 80%.
Monday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Rain, mainly after 10am. Highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the south 3 to 8 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
Rain, mainly before 2am. Lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of rain is 80%.
Monday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 50s.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not anticipated today or tonight.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather Goodbye Big Flares, Hello Green Comet | Space Weather News: 26 January 2023
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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 51 (MODERATE) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 51 (MODERATE)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (2.2 out of 12) today with Juniper and Elm being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.1 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for January 28th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 78°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1999
Lowest Temperature -10°F in Highlands in 1897
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.60 inches in Highlands 1918
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 9.5 inches in Highlands in 1904
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of January Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 78°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-28-1999
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on 01-21-1985
Greatest Rainfall 5.10 inches in Highlands on 01-12-2018
Greatest Snowfall 10.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-08-1988
Record Weather Events for January 28th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 83°F in Tryon, Polk County in 1944 /> Lowest Temperature -24°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1986
Greatest Rainfall 3.40 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1994
Greatest Snowfall 28.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1998
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of January Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 86°F in Marion, Mcdowell County on 01-24-1927
Lowest Temperature -34°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 01-21-1985
Greatest Rainfall 9.18 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 01-13-2018
Greatest Snowfall 28.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 01-28-1998
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
No events have been submitted for Macon Calendar.
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Local and State News
• Angel Medical Center President's Column for January 2023 [Macon Media]
• Shelling out too much on eggs? Surging prices could lead to increase in backyard coops [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• NC takes away auditor Beth Wood's state-owned car, damages total $7,700 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• From Jim Crow to anti-gay laws, North Carolina has chosen to keep unconstitutional rules [Raleigh News and Observer]
• As Sylva Attempts To Move Forward With Grant Application, Some Question Value Of Public Art... [Smoky Mountain News]
State of the State Address | South Carolina ETV
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 27 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for January 27th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 338 [Al Jazeera]
• LIVEBLOG: Day 338 of Russian aggression against Ukraine [TVP World]
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 338: Russian massive drones and missile attack kill 11 Ukrainians [Euromaiden Press]
• Total of 321 heavy tanks promised to Ukraine - Ukraine ambassador to France [Reuters]
• FRANCE 24's Ukraine correspondent reports back, nearly a year into the war [France 24]
• Ukraine war: Zelensky's government launches anti-corruption drive [BBC News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Kremlin responds to Nuland’s sanctions offer [Russia Today]
• Russian forces encircle Bakhmut [Pravda]
• NATO ‘simulates’ cyberattacks on Kaliningrad, Moscow facilities — Russian Foreign Ministry [TASS]
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National and World News Roundup
• Paul Pelosi Attack Video: Watch the Disturbing Newly Released Footage [San Fransisco Standard]
• Memphis PD Release Shocking Bodycam Footage of Five Cops Beating Tyre Nichols [MEDIAITE]
• Video shows police kicking, pepper spraying, beating Tyre Nichols after traffic stop [Memphis Commerical Appeal]
Video of Tyre Nichols' violent arrest released by Memphis officials | CNS News full coverage
Poll camera video shows beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police | WTVF-TV (Nashville, IN)
• Poland commemorates Auschwitz victims [TVP World]
• Three indicted in murder-for-hire plot targeting journalist [Courthouse News Service]
• Jerusalem synagogue killing spree leaves seven dead, three injured [Jerusalem Post]
• ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Florida teachers strip classroom shelves of books in response to DeSantis ban [The UK Independent]
• Consumer Spending Fell 0.2% in December as Inflation Cooled [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ (article archive)]
************************ • Why India Is Using Emergency Laws to Ban a Documentary About Prime Minister Modi [Time Magazine]
• Elon Musk Caves to Pressure From India to Remove BBC Doc Critical of Modi [The Intercept]
• JNU cuts electricity to prevent screening of BBC series on PM Modi, students turn to phones [India Today]
Here are ways you can watch the documentary: • Narendra Modi BBC Documentary 'India: The Modi Question' | Season: 1 Episode: 1 [Odysee]
• Narendra Modi BBC Documentary 'India: The Modi Question' | Season: 1 Episode: 2 [Odysee]
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Putin and the Presidents (full documentary) | FRONTLINE PBS
Global National: Jan. 27, 2023 | Video released of Tyre Nichols’ fatal encounter with police
Nightly News Full Broadcast (January 27th)
PBS NewsHour full episode, January 27, 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: (the Macon County Health Department did not release numbers for the weeknd ending January 20th)
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 4:57pm CET, 25 January 2023, there have been 100,651,473 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,093,540 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 20 January 2023, a total of 660,066,195 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 4:57pm CET, 25 January 2023, there have been 664,873,023 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,724,248 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 24 January 2023, a total of 13,156,047,747 vaccine doses have been administered.
• ‘Microclots’ could help solve the long COVID puzzle [National Geographic]
• Long COVID: What Do the Latest Data Show? [Kaiser Family Foundation]
• Should COVID vaccines be given yearly? Proposal divides US scientists [Nature]
• TWiV 977: Ageing is infectious [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 976: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150 [Yahoo! Finance]
• Report: Truth Social ads dominated by fake merchandise, misleading users [ARS TECHNICA]
• The first AI-written speech delivered by congressman is as flavorless as you’d expect [The Verge]
• NASA Announces Successful Test of New Propulsion Technology for Treks to Deep Space [Gizmodo]
• Smartphone shipments plunge to a low not seen since 2013 — their largest ever decline [CNBC]
Evergreen Links
• Red Dead Online player bids farewell to Google Stadia save by releasing horse they named after their departed daughter [Games Radar]
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 69 - Twilight of the Æsir
• 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]
How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain
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 January 27 2023: Let Them Eat Conference Room Cake | Level1Techs
Water Marking Words - DTNS 4445 | Daily Tech News Show
The ASML of DNA Sequencing | Asianometry
This Amazing View Of Saturn Is Impossible | Scott Manley
Jeremi Suri: American Civil War | Lex Fridman Podcast #354
Linux Action News 277 | Jupiter Broadcasting
But Where Is Everybody? Fermi Paradox Explored: Problems With The Zoo Hypothesis | Antov Petrov
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Bakhmut evacuates as Russia claims to be closing in | DW News
Ukraine crack down on corruption as US sanction Russian supporting Wagner group | BBC News
How is war in Ukraine different from other Russian invasions? - Stefan Korshak| TVP World
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On This Day
January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 337 days remain until the end of the year (338 in leap years).
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession of his son Louis the Pious as ruler of the Frankish Empire.
1069 – Robert de Comines, appointed Earl of Northumbria by William the Conqueror, rides into Durham, England, where he is defeated and killed by rebels. This incident leads to the Harrying of the North.
1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is lifted after he humbles himself before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Italy.
1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 – Edward VI, the nine-year-old son of Henry VIII, becomes King of England on his father's death.
1568 – The Edict of Torda prohibits the persecution of individuals on religious grounds in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1591 – Execution of Agnes Sampson, accused of witchcraft in Edinburgh.
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
1671 – Original city of Panama (founded in 1519) is destroyed by a fire when privateer Henry Morgan sacks and sets fire to it. The site of the previously devastated city is still in ruins (see Panama Viejo).
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg, Russia, by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1754 – Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba, with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War.
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1916 – The Canadian province of Manitoba grants women the right to vote and run for office in provincial elections (although still excluding women of Indigenous or Asian heritage), marking the first time women in Canada are granted voting rights.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1919 – The Order of the White Rose of Finland is established by Baron Gustaf Mannerheim, the regent of the Kingdom of Finland.
1920 – Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
1922 – Knickerbocker Storm: Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes a disaster when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses, killing over 100 people.
1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1941 – Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1960 – The National Football League announces expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 NFL season.
1964 – An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which dumps 3 metres (10 ft) of snow in one day in Upstate New York. Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States, helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
1988 – In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.
2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94.
2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
2021 – A nitrogen leak at a poultry food processing facility in Gainesville, Georgia kills six and injures at least ten.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, January 28, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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