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GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure and dry conditions will continue through early today then an upper level disturbance is expected to bring another round of light showers mainly this afternoon and evening. Dry high pressure will then build into the region Wednesday into Thursday night before a cold front brings rain chances back late Friday into Saturday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph early in the morning decreasing to be light and variable by midmorning.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the southwest by midmorning.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the north 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the north 5 to 15 mph decreasing to be light and variable by noon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 60.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 20 percent chance of rain after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph decreasing to be light and variable by noon.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of rain after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Light winds out of the north.
Wednesday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 30s. West northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather A Dark Coronal Hole and Stealthy Solar Storm Combo-Pack: Space Weather News 23 March 2023
Back to Top El Nino is Coming - A Look at What That Means and What to Watch for Over the Coming Months | hurricantrack
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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 35 (GOOD) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 35 (GOOD)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.6 out of 12) today with Jumiper, Oak, and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.2 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 28th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 85°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2020
Lowest Temperature 14°F in Franklin in 1982
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.64 inches in Highlands in 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 2.3 inches in Highlands in 1893
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of March Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 87°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-29-2020
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on 03-07-1899
Greatest Rainfall 6.61 inches in Highlands on 03-26-2021
Greatest Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-13-1993
Record Weather Events for March 28th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 94°F in Tarboro, Edgecombe County in 1907
Lowest Temperature 7°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1982
Greatest Rainfall 4.52 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2005
Greatest Snowfall 11.0 inches in Jefferson, Ashe County in 1947
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of March Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 98°F in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 03-27-1921
Lowest Temperature -11°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 03-03-1980
Greatest Rainfall 10.10 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 03-04-1979
Greatest Snowfall 36.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 03-13-1993
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Friends of the Macon County Public Library Sets Used Bookstore Half-price Sale March 31 and April 1
WHAT: Friends of the Macon County Public Library (FOL) Used Bookstore Half-Price Sale
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, 2023
WHERE: Friends of the Macon County Public Library Used Bookstore, 115 Highlands Rd., Franklin
WHY: Raise money to support programs and events at the library
SUNDAY, APRIL 30th
Youth Mental Health-Help Rally From 2pm to 4pm at the Town Gazebo LINK: https://fb.me/e/RrdJAWHS
Come join us on our first Youth Mental Health and Bullying Rally to raise more awareness about this urgent need for us children. This inaugural event is the first youth led event for Youth Mental Health as far a we know in Franklin NC.
Our event will close with our March from Macon County Court House to Franklin Town Hall.
Local speakers include NC State Senator Kevin Corbin, Franklin Chief of Police Holland, and others
Youth provider organizations will be on site to share resources and education
For more information send email to whyuskids0@gmail.com
SATURDAY, MAY 6th
Friends of the Greenway Spring Arts and Crafts Event (FROG FAIR) From 10am to 4pm
Friends of the Greenway announce their Spring arts and crafts event. FROG FAIR will be held May 6, 2023 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. Volunteers needed too. 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.
No events have been submitted for Macon Calendar.
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Local and State News
• Canton Paper Mill: Heartbeat of an Appalachian Mountain Town [Altamont Property Group]
• Troubled Silicon Valley Bank acquired by NC-based First Citizens [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Groups rally against legalizing mobile sports gambling in NC [WRAl-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Gov. Roy Cooper signs NC Medicaid expansion into law. But it comes with an asterisk. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Journalists are watchdogs in the fight for open records [BPR]
Proposed State Budget for 2023-2025 [Download PDF]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners March 2023 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
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National and World News Roundup
Shooting at Nashville elementary school kills three children and three adults | NBC News
• 'Truly horrific': Nashville mourns after mass shooting at elementary school [The Tennessean]
• After Tornado’s Destruction, Mississippi Towns Look to Future While Coping With Grief [Wall Street Journal]
Why the Chips Act Signals A Return to ‘Industrial Policy’ | WSJ
• A Tale of Two Housing Markets: Prices Fall in the West While the East Booms [Wall Street Journal]
• Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC [BBC News]
• GOP Prepared to Get 'Wiped Out' in 2024 to Rid Themselves of Trump—Attorney [Newsweek]
New poll highlights sharp divide between Trump’s base and other voters | PBS NewsHour
• China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu [BNO News]
• Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion [Open Access Government]
• Covering collapse of SVB could cost $20 billion, FDIC chairman to tell Congress [CBS News]
• Honduras breaks diplomatic ties with Taiwan [DW News]
• US will not back off Syria mission despite deadly attacks -White House [Reuters]
• The military’s blame game over the Chinese spy balloon spills into the open [Politico]
Washington Today (3/27/2023): POTUS Biden: Nashville school shooting ‘a family’s worst nightmare’ | C-SPAN RADIO
Global National: March 27, 2023 | Netanyahu pauses judicial overhaul after mass protests in Israel
Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 27
PBS NewsHour full episode, (March 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:
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:06pm CET, 21 March 2023, there have been 102,544,598 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,114,970 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 10 March 2023, a total of 664,718,300 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 6:06pm CET, 21 March 2023, there have been 761,071,826 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,879,677 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 21 March 2023, a total of 13,260,401,200 vaccine doses have been administered.
• 1,800 Covid Infections In India In 24 Hours, Active Cases Surpass 10,000-Mark [ TownFlex ]
• Getting COVID-19 Could Weaken Your Immune System [ Time Magazine ]
• Detection of viable SARS-CoV-2 in retrospective analysis of aerosol samples collected from hospital rooms of patients with COVID-19 [ Clinical Microbiology and Infection ]
Dr Tony Fauci | American Masters (Season 37, Episode 02)
• TWiV 995: Viral origin stories [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 994: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• New Study: How Long Do Electric Car Batteries Last? [Recurrent]
• Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC [BBC News]
• Wearable Brain Devices Will Challenge Our Mental Privacy [Scientific American]
Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023
The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle.
Voting in polls will require verification for same reason.
• There's a 90% chance TikTok will be banned in the US unless it goes through with an IPO or gets bought out by mega-cap tech, Wedbush says [Markets Insider]
• The FBI Has Been Buying Bulk Internet Data from This Florida Company [Gizmodo]
• Linguistic analysis of 177,296 Reddit comments sheds light on negative attitudes toward science [PsyPost]
• Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it? We ran the numbers. [ARS TECHNICA]
• Z-Library returns, aims to avoid seizures by giving each user a secret URL [ARS TECHNICA]
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
Hardcore History: AddendumEP24 Manifesting the Muse with Rick | Dan Carlin
• 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
Why Moore’s Law Matters | Asianometry
• The Importance of (Exponentially More) Computing Power [PDF of paper mentioned at end of the above video]
The Level1 Show March 28 2023: A-Crop-Alypse Now | Level1 Techs
Blair Brings The Bats - DTNS 4485 | Daily Tech News
Do we finally have an answer to the question ‘what is Oumuamua’? | Cornell University
• Acceleration of 1I/‘Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice [ArXiv (PDF)]
The Entire History of Ancient Japan | Voices of the Past
Tardigrades: The Surprisingly Sexy Ambassadors Of The Microcosmos | Journey to the Microcosmos
Searching for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri with the TOLIMAN Mission | Fraser Cain
Asteroid Mining: The Future Or the End of the World Economy? | Megaprojects
Experiment That May Show Whether We Live in a Simulation | Antov Petrov
Berlin with Brent - LINUX Unplugged 503 | Jupiter Broadcasting
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 27 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for March 27th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 398 [Al Jazeera]
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 397: Putin to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus [Euromaiden Press]
• Moldova to host joint military exercise involving troops from US, UK, Romania [Defense Here]
• U.S. Charges Russian Spy Who Tried To Infiltrate War Crime Court [Moscow Times]
• ‘Serious consequences’ await Armenia, if it recognizes ICC jurisdiction: Kremlin [TVP World]
• Zelenskyy accuses Russia of ‘radiation blackmail’ at Zaporizhzhia [Al Jazeera]
• Tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus: What does this mean? [DW News]
'NATO IS TREMBLING' - RUSSIANS ARE PREPARING ANCIENT T-34 FOR A FIGHT || 2023 | Warthog Defense
Will Vladimir Putin go nuclear in Ukraine? | Inside Story
This is what's left of the whole brigade – Russian soldiers tell it like it is (Break the Fake) | TVP World
Germany delivers 18 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine | DW News
Top Russian actor A. Smolyaninov supports Ukraine 'because they are fighting for their freedom' | France 24
Attrition & the winter war in Ukraine - Casualties, force quality and force generation | Perun
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
The Future of Warfare is Devastation | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Ukrainians receive depleted uranium training [Russia Today]
• Russian forces encircle nearly all of Bakhmut and half of Avdiivk [Pravda]
• Russian forces strike Ukrainian military convoy in Zaporozhye area — ministry [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
March 28th is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 278 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didius Julianus.
364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
1801 – Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.
1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín.
1814 – War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels.
1842 – First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.
1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near in France.
1918 – General John J. Pershing, during World War I, cancels 42nd 'Rainbow' Division's orders to Rolampont for further training and diverted it to the occupy the Baccarat sector.[17] Rainbow Division becomes "the first American division to take over an entire sector on its own, which it held longer than any other American division-occupied sector alone for a period of three months".
1918 – Finnish Civil War: On the so-called "Bloody Maundy Thursday of Tampere", the Whites force the Reds to attack the city center, where the city's fiercest battles being fought in Kalevankangas with large casualties on both sides. During the same day, an explosion at the Red headquarters of Tampere kills several commanders.
1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
1942 – World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.
1946 – Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.[25]
1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
1965 – An Mw 7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town of El Cobre and killing at least 500 people.
1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a student protest.
1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
1970 – An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring at least 1,200.
1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
1994 – In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.
1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill at least 130 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.
2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.
2005 – An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a magnitude of 8.6 and killing over 1000 people.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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