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Monday, April 10, 2023

News and Weather Briefing for Monday, April 10, 2023



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Almanac
Macon Calendar
Local and StateNews
Russo-UKrainian War Updates
National News Roundup
COVID-19 News and Updates
Science and Technology
On This Day
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GENERAL OUTLOOK

The center of dry high pressure will set up over the region and persist through midweek, resulting in a slow warming trend. The high will begin to shift east of the area, as a low pressure system develops near the Louisiana Gulf Coast region Thursday. The low may approach from the southwest on Friday bringing some moisture.



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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Wednesday Night





Franklin Area

Today

Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs near 70. Light winds out of the north.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.

Wednesday Night

Clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s.
Highlands Plateau

Today

Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs near 70. Light winds out of the north.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.

Wednesday Night

Clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the southeast.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.

Wednesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 40s.


Nantahala Area

Today

Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the east around 5 mph.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Light winds out of the southeast.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the north around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows around 40. Light and variable winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 70.

Wednesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 40s.


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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Hazardous weather is not expected today.





Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.

Space Weather The Sun Works Up Some Big Flares and Fast Wind | Space Weather News: 31 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









PM2.5 AQI is 45 (MODERATE) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 50 (MODERATE)


Fire and Smoke Map




Local Air Monitor

Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.3 out of 12) today with Oak, Juniper, and Birch being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.2 out of 12).



Record Weather Events for April 10th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2001
Lowest Temperature 18°F in Highlands in 1985
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.19 inches in Highlands in 1993
Greatest One-Day Snowfall trace in Franklin in 2022

Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of April Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 04-26-1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands on 04-01-1987
Greatest Rainfall 7.00 inches in Highlands on 04-07-1895 (also a state record)
Greatest Snowfall 9.5 inches in Franklin on 04-04-1987

Record Weather Events for April 10th in North Carolina

rdrd Highest Temperature 96°F in Lillington, Harnett County in 2001
Lowest Temperature 10°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1996
Greatest Rainfall 4.20 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2019
Greatest Snowfall 7.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2022
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of April Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 102°F in Carthage, Moore County on 04-29-1981
Lowest Temperature 1°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-08-2007
Greatest Rainfall 7.30 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 04-16-2011
Greatest Snowfall 19.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-11-2003




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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)

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.







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Local and State News



• School superintendent drafts bill asking for state help amid decline in enrollment [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• Will North Carolina Be the ‘Beginning of the End’ of the Medicaid Expansion Fight? [New York Times]

• NC GOP files bills targeting transgender youth [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

Appalachian Geology: Surprising Implications | Myron Cook



• April 2023 tax deadlines are soon. What to know about extensions and filing dates in NC [Raleigh News and Observer]

• Governor's office: 'Serious concerns' at SBI for years [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• HB259 NC House Bill Budget Substitute [PDF Download (640 pages)]



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

China continues military drills near Taiwan | ABC News (Australia)



• China Warns Taiwan, With an Eye on Rest of the World [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ (article archive)]

• US Navy Challenges Beijing in South China Sea Amid Taiwan Drills [Bloomberg]

• China holds a second day of military exercises around Taiwan [Stars and Stripes]

• America Is Back in the Factory Business [Wall Street Journal]

• The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries [The Atlantic]

Trump's Attorney Discusses Classified Documents Probe On NBC's Meet The Press



• ‘A whole appeasement psychology’: How America let Putin off the hook after Crimea [Politico]

• FBI documents associate internet slang like 'based' and 'red pill' with 'extremism' [Fox News]

Washington Today (4-7-23): March jobs report - 236K jobs created, unemployment falls to 3.5% | C-SPAN RADIO



Global National: April 9, 2023 | Israeli-Palestinian tensions heightened over religious weekend



Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 09


PBS NewsHour full episode, (April 09, 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 11:02am CEST, 6 April 2023, there have been 102,873,924 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,118,800 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 31 March 2023, a total of 666,193,352 vaccine doses have been administered.

Globally, as of 11:02am CEST, 6 April 2023, there have been 762,201,169 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,893,190 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 4 April 2023, a total of 13,337,835,146 vaccine doses have been administered.


• JILA’s Frequency Comb Breathalyzer Detects COVID-19 with Excellent Accuracy [ NIST ]

• Assessing COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against Omicron subvariants: Report from a meeting of the World Health Organization [ Science Direct ]

• The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 [ Nature ]

TWiV 999: Vaccinated to the nines | Microbe TV



• TWiV 998: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]

• TWiV 999: Inside Omicron with Mohsan Saeed [Microbe TV]




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Science and Technology News Roundup

• CachyOS: Arch-based Distro for Speed and Ease of Use [It's FOSS News]

• Musk admits NPR isn’t state-affiliated after asking questions he could have Googled [ARS TECHNICA]

• Twitter is no longer policing Russian and Chinese state-backed media [Semaphor]

• Light waves squeezed through ‘slits in time’ [Nature]

• Disordered personality traits appear to play a bigger role in conspiracy thinking than ideology [PsyPost]

• Hubble Unexpectedly Finds Double Quasar in Distant Universe [NASA]

• ChatGPT could promote ‘AI-enabled’ violent extremism [The Telegraph]

• A dramatic new EPA rule will force up to 60% of new US car sales to be EVs in just 7 years [electrek]

• 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

How Does ChatGPT Actually Work? Behind the Scenes | Arvin Ash



Intel and AMD: The First 30 Years | Asianometry



The Level1 Show April 7 2023: The Divine Right of Rodents | Level1 Techs



Me and My Digital Twin - DTNS 4494 | Daily Tech News Show



Is South Korea's Economic Bubble About to Burst? | Economics Explained



Renewed i5 Mini PC: HP EliteDesk 800 G2 | ExplainingComputers



Last Crusade or First Modern War? The Crimean War 1853-1856 | Real Time History



Keep Your Darn Secrets - LINUX Unplugged 505 | Jupiter Broadcasting



How the Ottomans Became Sultans of Rum - Ottoman Empire | Kings and Generals



30 Windows Commands you CAN’T live without | Network Chuck





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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)



• Russian Religious Repression in Ukraine, From 02-24-2022 to 04-09-2023 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for April 9th]

• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 410 [Al Jazeera]

• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 410: Explosion in Crimea [Euromaiden Press]


• Ukraine concludes agreement with Poland to buy 200 Rosomak armoured personnel carriers – Zelenskyy [Ukrainian Pravda]

• NATO announces date of largest air force exercise in history [TVP World]

• Russia steps up efforts to boost army size [DW News]

• Ukraine to export electricity after Russia fails to destroy power grid [New York Post]

• US scrambles to find source of leak of Ukraine war intel [Al Jazeera]

• New Russian militia Convoy rises as Wagner Group gets too big to control [France 24]

• U.S. Faces Challenge in Striking Prisoner Exchange Deals for Americans Held in Russia [Wall Street Journal]

• Vitaly Votanovsky flees Russia after documenting a Wagner cemetery [BBC News]

• A Leaked IT contractor files detail Kremlin's stockpile of cyber-weapons [The Register]

• ‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics [The Guardian]

World at War | Russia welcomes Finland's NATO membership with nuclear Iskander missiles



🔴 (NSFW) - DC Police Ride Along, Russian Thermobaric, Ukrainian CQB | Funker530 LIVE Recap



US Grand Strategy: NATO, Alliances, & Ukraine - how alliances underpin American influence | Perun



Let's talk about Russia not being able to deny it anymore.... | Beau of the Fifth Column



How will the war in Ukraine play out this spring? | DW News



Kidnapped Ukrainian children will be brought back home - World Today - Oleksandr Bevz | TVP World




News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective

SPECIAL Douglas Macgregor: "This had been a battle of annihilation" | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor



• Russia almost shot down British spy plane – WaPo [Russia Today]

**Pravda has no updated stories about the war today** • Vladlen Tatarsky's killer Daria Trepova suspected of working for Ukraine [Pravda]

• Elon Musk refuses to delete Russian security official Medvedev’s post on Twitter [TASS Russian News Agency]





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On This Day

April 10 is the 100th day of the year (101st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 265 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)




428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. Three years later, he would be deposed due to alleged heresy.

837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).

1407 – Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama visits the Ming dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".

1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.

1545 – The settlement of Villa Imperial de Carlos V (now the city of Potosí) in Bolivia is founded after the discovery of huge silver deposits in the area.

1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.

1717 – Robert Walpole resigns from the British government, commencing the Whig Split which lasts until 1720.

1741 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.

1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.

1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.

1816 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.

1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.

1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.

1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.

1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.

1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.

1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.

1872 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.

1875 – India: Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda Saraswati to propagate his goal of social reform.

1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.

1900 – British suffer a sharp defeat by the Boers south of Brandfort. 600 British troops are killed and wounded and 800 taken prisoner.

1912 – RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.

1916 – The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.

1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.

1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.

1938 – The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.

1939 – Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.'s "Big Book", is first published.

1941 – World War II: The Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia.

1944 РRudolf Vrba and Alfr̩d Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.

1963 – One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.

1968 – The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.

1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.

1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.

1972 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.

1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.

1973 – Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.

1979 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.

1988 – The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.

1991 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.

1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.

1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.

2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.

2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech KaczyÅ„ski, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.

2016 – The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.

2016 – An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, shakes up India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.

2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, which was located in the centre of the M87 galaxy.

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Published at 5:00am on Monday, April 10, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins


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Macon County Board of Elections 03-11-2014 The Macon County Board of Elections holds a special meeting to hear a challenge brought by Charles "Scoon" Nichols to the candidacy of Macon County Commissioner Ron Haven regarding his eligibility to file as a candidate in the District II County Commissioner race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lNBy-faAA ********************* Jair Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the US ahead of Lula’s inauguration https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-us-lula-inauguration-intl-latam Dang. He pulled a Trump and snuck out of town and can't be civil during the transfer of power. What a toddler move. ******************** Fierce Kitty, Glorious Kitty, Little Ball of Fur. Honourable Kitty, Warrior Kitty, Qapla' Qapla' Qapla'-->
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