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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

News and Weather Briefing for Wednesday, September 27, 2023






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GENERAL OUTLOOK

Moisture will continue atop another high pressure center ridging down from the north into today with cloudy, damp, and cool conditions lingering through Thursday. Expect a slow warm up and drier conditions beginning Friday which will continue into next week.









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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Friday Night







Franklin Area

Today

A slight chance of showers before 10am, then a chance of showers after noon. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Tonight

A 20 percent chance of rain before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.

Thursday

A slight chance of showers between 1pm and 3pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Friday

Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.


`Highlands Plateau

Today

A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the east around 5 mph.

Thursday

A slight chance of showers between 2pm and 5pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.

Friday

A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

A 20 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog between 7am and 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

A 20 percent chance of rain before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.

Thursday

A slight chance of showers between 2pm and 4pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the east. Chance of rain is 20%.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Friday

Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.


Nantahala Area

Today

A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Tonight

A chance of showers before 9pm, then a slight chance of rain between 9pm and 11pm. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday

A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Thursday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.

Friday

Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.

Friday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.


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Hazards and Tropical Weather



Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.

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Macon Calendar
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Saturdays in August from 11am to 1pm

Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)

9/23/23

11-Noon—Sonia Brooks—a talented lady who aims to keep the old folk songs popular with all ages. If you're of the Gen X generation, you probably first heard these songs when you were young.

Noon-1pm---Jay Baird—a guy who who is all Americana, getting into folk and other songs we haven’t heard in years. If you're a Baby Boomer, some of these songs you've heard as a kid.

Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!

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Mountain Findings
432 Spruce Street (physical)
Highlands, North Carolina 28741
Web: MountainFindings.org

Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.






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Local and State News



• Turkey trade triumph? Roy Cooper says new deal with India will boost NC farmers [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• Concerns grow over loss of more cancer services at Asheville's Mission Hospital [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• Mission Health to open second ER [BPR]

---Recent News Recap--- Medicaid expansion set for Dec. 1 | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)



• Citing ‘system failures,’ Messino to stop providing acute leukemia chemotherapy at Mission [Asheville Watchdog]

• Boost in local COVID cases triggers search for new booster vaccines in mountain pharmacies [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• Fire safety concerns in new budget? NC's top fire marshal slams fellow Republicans over secretive changes
State Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey says a provision that strips him of a key fire-safety role was tucked away in the budget without any prior public debate. [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• ‘Grow up’: NC Democrat hits back at Young Democrats for slamming his support of budget
“When you’re an adult you have to work with people you may have disagreements with and even may not like,” Brockman said in a statement. [Raleigh News and Observer]

• NC legislature cracks down on pornography sites with new age verification requirements [Asheville Citizen-Times]

---NORTH CAROLINA BUDGET PROCESS---

• 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

Biden joins striking auto workers on Detroit picket line | DW News



• Senate moves shutdown-prevention plan that’s ‘not gonna happen’ in House [Politico]

• Inside the West’s Mammoth Effort to Train Ukrainian Soldiers [Time Magazine]

• More pay, streaming bonuses, AI limits: Four takeaways from the WGA deal to end the writers’ strike [Los Angeles Times]

Donald Trump fraudulently inflated his worth by $3.6bn, says judge | BBC News



• Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers while building real estate empire
A judge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House, and he ordered some of the former president’s companies removed from his control and dissolved. [AP News]

• Judge Rules Trump Committed Fraud, Stripping Control of Key Properties [New York Times]

• Read the Judge's Ruling in the Trump Fraud Case [New York Times]

International News Headlines

Azerbaijan: Fuel depot explosion kills 20 in Nagorno-Karabakh | BBC News



• UK suspects Wirecard's Jan Marsalek of spying for Russia [DW News]

• Sikh leader's murder in Canada shines spotlight on shadowy Indian spy agency [France 24]

• Court rejects arrest warrant for opposition leader Lee over corruption charges [Yonhap News Agency]

• China sends 32 military aircraft, 8 naval ships around Taiwan [Taiwan News]

• Manhunt for gang boss who controlled luxury jail in Venezuela [BBC News]

• Zimbabwe opposition figures detained in crackdown after disputed election [The Guardian (UK)]

Deadline to avert shutdown looms, new polling ahead of 2nd Republican debate, more | America Decides | CBS News



Washington Today (9-26-23): President Biden joins UAW picket line at GM plant in Michigan | C-SPAN



Global National: Sept. 26, 2023 | Rota quits as House Speaker after celebrating Nazi veteran



Nightly News Full Broadcast - Sept. 26th NBC News


PBS NewsHour full episode, (September 26, 2023)




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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:



Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Macon County Public Health will stop publishing weekly COVID updates but will continue to monitor local case levels and trends. In the event that case counts increase significantly, MCPH will notify the public and resume weekly COVID updates.




• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]

In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 June 2023, a total of 668,882,018 vaccine doses have been administered.

Globally, as of 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 770,085,713 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,956,173 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 August 2023, a total of 13,499,983,736 vaccine doses have been administered.


COVID ‘Clear differences' in blood of patients with long COVID, research shows | KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA)



• How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID [Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California]

• What to Know About Paxlovid Rebound: Why can Covid symptoms sometimes return after treatment? And what should you do about it?[New York Times]

• How to get the new COVID vaccine for free, with or without insurance [CBS News]

• TWiV 1044: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]

• TWiV 1045: Less Lassa, CRISPR RNA viruses [Microbe TV]




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Science and Technology News Roundup

• The Sky This Week from September 22 to 29: It’s time for autumn [Astronomy Magazine]

Quasars Have Larger Dark Matter Halos Than Expected | Sabine Hossenfelder



• EU says Elon Musk's X is biggest source of disinformation [France 24]

• Your photos can hear you. AI and machine learning help researchers get audio from still images and silent videos [Northeastern University]

• Plummeting prices for solar power and storage make global climate transition cheaper than expected [Mercator Research institute]

• FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly [ARS TECHNICA]

• FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality [TechCrunch]

• Widespread iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F [9to5Mac]


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: Addendum EP26 Dig This! | 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



• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Cinetimes]




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 September 27 2023: The People United (Against Unity) | Level1 Techs



Chat GPT Starts Talking Back - DTNS 4611 Extended | Daily Tech News Show



When Ants Took Over | PBS Eons



You Say Potato, I Say Computer - Android Faithful #12 | Daily Tech News Show



The Insane Logistics of a Roman Army on the March - 24 Hour Simulation | Invicta



NASA Science Live: Ask Your Questions About OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Delivery to Earth



Golden Age of Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom - Ancient Civilizations | Kings and General



Apple's Eddy Cue testifies in DOJ's antitrust case against Google | CNBC Television



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Civilization: Is the West History? | Episode 2: Science | BBC Select





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

Ukraine frontline: Soldiers strap DIY bombs to commercial drones | BBC Newsnight



• Revealed: Europe’s role in the making of Russia killer drones [The Guardian (UK)]

• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 581 [Al Jazeera]

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 26, 2023 [Institute for the Study of War]

• Ukraine moves missile production abroad after Russian strikes [EuroMaidan Press]

• Ukrainian troops make gains near four villages in eastern Ukraine [TVP World]

Moment Ukraine grain storage facility goes up in flames after bombing | Al Jazeera Newsfeed



Heavy-maintenance' Abrams battle tanks 'won't make a big difference' in Ukraine's counteroffensive | France 24



Ukrainians take up positions and successfully repel Russian counterattack | Military Mind | TVP World



🔴 (NSFW) Combat Footage Show: F-35 Freebies, Klischiivka, POWs Not Allowed | Funker530




News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or articles/video about those who support Russia

Col Douglas Macgregor: "The Russians Will Finish This War” | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor



• US government stopped me from interviewing Putin – Tucker Carlson
The former Fox News host has questioned why ‘you’re not allowed to hear’ the Russian president’s voice [Russia Today]

• Boeing P-8 Poseidon spotted circling above Romania when Ukraine struck Sevastopol
NATO's Boeing P-8 Poseidon was circling above the easternmost point of Romania at the time of the missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol. The distance from that point in Romania to the site of that attack is 313 kilometres. See more at https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/157722-poseidon_aircraft/ [Pravda]

• Russian soldiers repel attack by superior Ukrainian force in south Donetsk area [TASS Russian News Agency]






On This Day

September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 95 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)



1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

1331 – The Battle of PÅ‚owce is fought, between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order. The Poles are defeated but their leaders escape capture.

1422 – After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with Poland and Lithuania.

1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.

1540 – The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.

1590 – The death of Pope Urban VII, 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, ends the shortest papal reign in history.

1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.

1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year-long Siege of Candia.

1777 – American Revolution: Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes the capital of the United States for one day after Congress evacuates Philadelphia.

1791 – The National Assembly of France votes to award full citizenship to Jews.

1821 – The Army of the Three Guarantees triumphantly enters Mexico City, led by Agustín de Iturbide. The following day Mexico is declared independent.

1822 – Jean-François Champollion officially informs the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in France that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.

1825 – The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.

1854 – The paddle steamer SS Arctic, owned by the Collins Line of New York, sinks off the coast of Newfoundland, following a collision with a smaller vessel, the SS Vesta. Only 88 of over 300 people on board survive. About a dozen of the occupants of the Vesta are killed when their lifeboat is hit by the Arctic.

1875 – The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.

1903 – "Wreck of the Old 97": an American rail disaster, in which 11 people are killed; it later becomes the subject of a popular ballad.[10]

1908 – Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.

1916 – Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.

1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.

1928 – The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.

1930 – Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.

1938 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.

1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.

1941 – The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.

1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.

1942 – Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.

1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.

1949 – Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.

1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.

1959 – Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.

1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.

1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight.

1973 – Texas International Airlines Flight 655 crashes into the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness near Mena, Arkansas, killing all 11 people on board.

1975 – The last use of capital punishment in Spain sparks worldwide protests.

1977 – Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.

1988 – The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.

1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.

1996 – The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory; an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is established.

1996 – Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.

1998 – The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.

2001 – In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.

2003 – The SMART-1 satellite is launched.

2007 – NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.

2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.

2012 – In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then himself.

2014 – The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs.

2019 – Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.

2020 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh war: Azerbaijan launched an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.


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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins


Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center. 


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