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National News
Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure gradually builds in from the north today, resulting in isolated afternoon showers in the mountains. The high will drift off the East Coast Friday as a cold front approaches from the west this weekend, bringing better coverage of showers and thunderstorms. Drier conditions will return behind the front as well as near normal temperatures early next week.
• Angel Medical Center CEO Column for August 2024 [Macon Media]
• Grace Johnson Art Collection Reception at the Macon County Public Library [Macon Media]
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly between 7am and 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Friday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Light and variable winds.
Friday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A chance of showers before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. The chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 7pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. The chance of rain is 60%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the south. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Friday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Friday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 4pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. The chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. The chance of rain is 60%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the south. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Friday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Friday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the midafternoon, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. The chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. The chance of rain is 60%.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly in the midafternoon. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light winds out of the southwest. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the south.
Friday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Light winds out of the southwest.
Friday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A chance of showers before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. The chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. The chance of rain is 60%.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
There is a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms on Saturday across the region. The main threats will be damaging wind gusts, frequent lightning, and locally heavy rainfall.
Tropical Update
[Wednesday] Hurricane Ernesto Expected to Impact Bermuda
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Thu Aug 15 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Ernesto, located a couple of hundred miles northeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.
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Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (8.0 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (7.3 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 15th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 96°F in Coweeta Experimental Station in 1943
Lowest Temperature 47°F in Coweeta Experimental Station in 1963
Greatest Rainfall 6.32 inches in Highlands in 1923
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of August
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 40°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.68 inches in Highlands on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of August
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (8.0 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (7.3 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 15th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 96°F in Coweeta Experimental Station in 1943
Lowest Temperature 47°F in Coweeta Experimental Station in 1963
Greatest Rainfall 6.32 inches in Highlands in 1923
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of August
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 40°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.68 inches in Highlands on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of August
Data available from 1940
Highest Temperature 110°F in Fayetteville, Cumberland County on 08-21-1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 08-23-1930
Greatest Rainfall 12.43 inches in Morehead City, Carteret County on 08-12-1955
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during August in the state)
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Grace Johnson Art Collection Reception at the Macon County Public Library
Friday, August 16, 2024 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room - Grace Johnson Art Collection Reception & Friends of the Library Fundraiser
Grace Johnson spent much of her retirement years volunteering with the Friends of the Library—her family is exhibiting some of the art she collected throughout her career which took her to Vietnam, Korea, Germany, Grenada, Iran, as well as stateside locations. Art will be on display throughout the month of August and available for bidding to raise funds for the Friends of the Library. Refreshments will be served.
Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
August 2024 Schedule
8-17-24—Jim Corbett—New to The Frog, an Acoustic Guitarist with sounds from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Jim came to us with a resume of awards won, songs recorded, places he’s played and groups of which he’s been a part. Known in the Highlands area, we welcome the artistry of Jim Corbett to The Frog.
For other Music and News follow us on Facebook at Friends of the Greenway, Inc. and Instagram at friends_of_the_greenway_inc. To find out more about the Greenway and our organization, our website is: littletennessee.org.
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!
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.
News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
Trump delivers remarks on economic policy at campaign rally in Asheville, NC | PBS NewsHour
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump talks one-on-one with News 13's Patrick Hussion | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks at Trump rally in Asheville | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Trump departs after addressing supporters in Asheville [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Lt. Gov. Robinson stumps in Asheville for Trump; says he's victim of 'gov't weaponization' [Asheville Citizen-Time]
• Harris leads Trump in new poll of NC, in drastic reversal [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)x]
• Michele Morrow wants Bible elective in every NC middle, high school. What’s allowed now. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Convicted murderer escapes on way to North Carolina hospital: Police [ABC News]
• Sylva revisits panhandling ordinance [Smoky Mountain News]
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Videos and links to news articles
Highest Temperature 110°F in Fayetteville, Cumberland County on 08-21-1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 08-23-1930
Greatest Rainfall 12.43 inches in Morehead City, Carteret County on 08-12-1955
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during August in the state)
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Grace Johnson Art Collection Reception at the Macon County Public Library
Friday, August 16, 2024 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room - Grace Johnson Art Collection Reception & Friends of the Library Fundraiser
Grace Johnson spent much of her retirement years volunteering with the Friends of the Library—her family is exhibiting some of the art she collected throughout her career which took her to Vietnam, Korea, Germany, Grenada, Iran, as well as stateside locations. Art will be on display throughout the month of August and available for bidding to raise funds for the Friends of the Library. Refreshments will be served.
Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
August 2024 Schedule
8-17-24—Jim Corbett—New to The Frog, an Acoustic Guitarist with sounds from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Jim came to us with a resume of awards won, songs recorded, places he’s played and groups of which he’s been a part. Known in the Highlands area, we welcome the artistry of Jim Corbett to The Frog.
For other Music and News follow us on Facebook at Friends of the Greenway, Inc. and Instagram at friends_of_the_greenway_inc. To find out more about the Greenway and our organization, our website is: littletennessee.org.
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!
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.
News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
Trump delivers remarks on economic policy at campaign rally in Asheville, NC | PBS NewsHour
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump talks one-on-one with News 13's Patrick Hussion | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks at Trump rally in Asheville | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Trump departs after addressing supporters in Asheville [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Lt. Gov. Robinson stumps in Asheville for Trump; says he's victim of 'gov't weaponization' [Asheville Citizen-Time]
• Harris leads Trump in new poll of NC, in drastic reversal [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)x]
• Michele Morrow wants Bible elective in every NC middle, high school. What’s allowed now. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Convicted murderer escapes on way to North Carolina hospital: Police [ABC News]
• Sylva revisits panhandling ordinance [Smoky Mountain News]
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Videos and links to news articles
Illegal border crossings into the U.S. plunge | CBS News
Inflation falls to lowest levels since 2021. Are Americans feeling it? | NBC News
• Annual US inflation falls to 3-year low, clearing the way for the Fed to begin cutting rates [AP News]
• Liveblog: Astronauts could be stuck in space for eight months, NASA says [BBC News]
• People trust journalists less when they debunk misinformation [CNET]
• 12 US States Are Planning to Ban the Sale of Gas-Powered Cars [CNET]
• Disney wants wrongful death suit thrown out because widower bought an Epcot ticket and had Disney+ [CNN]
• Former Rochester Police officer gets 10 weekends in jail for rape of 13-year-old [WHEC-TV (Rochester, NY)]
• UCLA can’t allow protesters to block Jewish students from campus, judge rules [AP News]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
Trump and Harris battle for voters trust on economy | ABC News
Trump delivers remarks on economic policy at campaign rally in Asheville, NC | PBS NewsHour
• Gov. Tim Walz agrees to VP debate hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1 [CBS News]
• Vance agrees that raising grandchildren is ‘whole purpose of postmenopausal female,’ unearthed audio shows
Trump delivers remarks on economic policy at campaign rally in Asheville, NC | PBS NewsHour
• Gov. Tim Walz agrees to VP debate hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1 [CBS News]
• Vance agrees that raising grandchildren is ‘whole purpose of postmenopausal female,’ unearthed audio shows
Vance also seemed to agree when a podcast host suggested that having grandparents help raise children was a ‘weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman’ [Independent (UK)]
• Harris to propose federal ban on ‘corporate price-gouging’ in food and groceries [CNBC]
• Authorities ID a suspect in break-in at Trump campaign office in Virginia [Politico]
• Vance says he’d like ‘more than one debate’ with Walz [The hill]
• Harris campaign’s new $90 million in battleground ads in August aims to sharpen contrast with Trump [AP News]
International News Headlines
Footage from a battle in Russia | Military Mind | TVP World
WHO declares global public health emergency following Mpox (Monkey Pox) outbreak | DW News
• WHO declares mpox (Monkey Pox) outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as a new form of the virus spreads [AP News]
• Study: COVID vaccines saved 1.6 million lives in Europe [The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)]
• Rosenberg: Ukraine's advance undermines Putin's image as 'Mr Security' [BBC News]
• Middle East updates: Hamas to skip Qatar cease-fire talks [DW News]
• Massive cyberattack rocks Central Bank of Iran, computer system paralyzed - report [Jerusalem Post]
• Japan – and world economy – at high risk of crippling megaquake: Chinese seismologist [South China Morning Post]
• Ready to combat global challenges against India: PM Narendra Modi [Hindustan Times]
Explosion in Ningbo, Fire in Sri Lanka, and Container Crane Fall in Long Beach | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (8-14-24): Labor Dept says inflation in July was 2.9%, a three-year low | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 13, 2024 | Middle East on edge, Gaza ceasefire talks set to resume
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 13, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 13, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 13, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 13, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Is Tonga Eruption Responsible for 2023/2024 Heatwaves? | Anton Petrov
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from August 9 to 16: A conjunction of Mars and Jupiter [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 9 – 18 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Status Report and Expectations for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show August 14 2024: uBlock'd | Level1 Techs
Smoothing Out PC Gaming With SteamOS – DTNS 4832 | Daily Tech News Show
• Redbox app axed, dashing people’s hopes of keeping purchased content [ARS TECHNICA]
• Breakthrough brain-computer interface allows man with ALS to speak again [PsyPost]
• Trojan horse method gives malaria parasites a taste of their own medicine [Eureka Alert]
• Martian ears: Scientists develop sound system to track wind speeds on Mars [Interesting Engineering]
• Meta shutters tool used to fight disinformation, despite outcry [NPR]
• Cisco slashes thousands of workers as it announces yearly profit of $10.3 billion [SFGATE]
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On This Day
August 15th is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 138 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)
29 BC – Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
• [2045th Anniversary of Octavian’s 3 Triumphs (written in 2016) | Latin Language Blog]
636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between Byzantine Empire and Rashidun Caliphate begins.
• [Battle of the Yarmuk]
• [Battle of Yarmouk, 636 AD (Part 1/2) ⚔️ Storm gathers in the Middle East]
• [Battle of Yarmouk, 636 AD (Part 2/2) ⚔️ Byzantine - Rashidun Clash at Yarmouk]
717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
718 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.
747 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother Pepin the Short becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom.
778 – The Battle of Roncevaux Pass takes place between the army of Charlemagne and a Basque army.
805 – Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising
927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria.
1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
1038 – King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him.
1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Lumphanan]
• [Macbeth, King of Scotland]
• [Shakespeare: Macbeth]
• [Shakespeare's Macbeth Films - Welles - Polanski - Kurosawa - Kurzel - Paul Duncan]
1070 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
1096 – Starting date of the First Crusade as set by Pope Urban II.
1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1237 – The Battle of the Puig takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon. The battle resulted in an Aragonese victory.
• [Battle of the Puig]
• [Epic Battles of Medieval Spain]
1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned as the first Byzantine emperor in fifty-seven years.
1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
• [Second invasion (1281)]
• [Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 - Full History]
• [Mongols: Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 DOCUMENTARY]
1310 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.
1430 – Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1461 – The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
1483 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.
1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
1519 – Panama City, Panama is founded.
1534 – Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
1537 – Asunción, Paraguay is founded.
1540 – Arequipa, Peru is founded.
1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549).
1592 – Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin, Yi Eok-gi, and Won Gyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu.
1599 – Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1695 – French forces end the bombardment of Brussels.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
1824 – The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
• [Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States]
• [The Lafayette Trail: Mapping General Lafayette’s Farewell Tour in the United States (1824-1825)]
• [Andrew Jackson's Hermitage: Marquis de Lafayette]
1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1893 – Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
1899 – Fratton Park football ground in Portsmouth, England is officially first opened.
1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
1914 – A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1914 – World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
1914 – World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
• [Battle of Cer]
• [Serbian campaign]
• [Serbian Field Marshal Stepa Stepanovic I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?]
1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
• [Battle of Warsaw (1920)]
• [Battle of Warsaw - Turning Point of Polish-Soviet War I THE GREAT WAR 1920]
• [Polish–Soviet War]
1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
• [Remembering Wiley Post and Will Rogers]
1939 – Twenty-six Junkers Ju 87 bombers commanded by Walter Sigel meet unexpected ground fog during a dive-bombing demonstration for Luftwaffe generals at Neuhammer. Thirteen of them crash and burn.
1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
1945 – Jewel Voice Broadcast by the Emperor Showa following effective surrender of Japan in the World War II, Korea gains Independence from the Empire of Japan.
1947 – India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
1948 – The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula.
1950 – Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurrs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.
1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
1954 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
1960 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
1961 – Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
• [Wikipedia: Nixon Shock]
• [Nixon Ends Convertibility of US Dollars to Gold and Announces Wage/Price Controls]
• [The End of the Gold-backed US-$ - Nixon Shock in August 1971]
• [The Challenge of Peace - President Nixon's Address to the Nation on A New Economic Policy]
• [The Nixon Shock: The Closing of the Gold Window in 1971 (HOM 35-C)]
• [What if the DOLLAR Was Still Pegged to GOLD | Gold Standard | ENDEVR Explains]
• [How Nixon Killed the U.S. Dollar]
• [End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless | Gold | Financial Crisis | ENDEVR Documentary]
1971 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 – Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends.
1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung-hee.
1975 – Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
1975 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
• [The Wow! Signal: Actual Recording]
• [Wikipedia: Wow! signal]
• [Wow! mystery signal from space finally explained]
• [The Mystery of the Wow! Signal]
1984 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
1985 – Signing of the Assam Accord, an agreement between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement to end the movement.
1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
1998 – Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.
2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
2013 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
2013 – The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.
2015 – North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, August 15, 2024
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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On This Day
August 15th is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 138 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)
29 BC – Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
• [2045th Anniversary of Octavian’s 3 Triumphs (written in 2016) | Latin Language Blog]
636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between Byzantine Empire and Rashidun Caliphate begins.
• [Battle of the Yarmuk]
• [Battle of Yarmouk, 636 AD (Part 1/2) ⚔️ Storm gathers in the Middle East]
• [Battle of Yarmouk, 636 AD (Part 2/2) ⚔️ Byzantine - Rashidun Clash at Yarmouk]
717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
718 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.
747 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother Pepin the Short becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom.
778 – The Battle of Roncevaux Pass takes place between the army of Charlemagne and a Basque army.
805 – Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising
927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria.
1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
1038 – King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him.
1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Lumphanan]
• [Macbeth, King of Scotland]
• [Shakespeare: Macbeth]
• [Shakespeare's Macbeth Films - Welles - Polanski - Kurosawa - Kurzel - Paul Duncan]
1070 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
1096 – Starting date of the First Crusade as set by Pope Urban II.
1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1237 – The Battle of the Puig takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon. The battle resulted in an Aragonese victory.
• [Battle of the Puig]
• [Epic Battles of Medieval Spain]
1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned as the first Byzantine emperor in fifty-seven years.
1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
• [Second invasion (1281)]
• [Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 - Full History]
• [Mongols: Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 DOCUMENTARY]
1310 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.
1430 – Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1461 – The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
1483 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.
1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
1519 – Panama City, Panama is founded.
1534 – Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
1537 – Asunción, Paraguay is founded.
1540 – Arequipa, Peru is founded.
1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549).
1592 – Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin, Yi Eok-gi, and Won Gyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu.
1599 – Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1695 – French forces end the bombardment of Brussels.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
1824 – The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
• [Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States]
• [The Lafayette Trail: Mapping General Lafayette’s Farewell Tour in the United States (1824-1825)]
• [Andrew Jackson's Hermitage: Marquis de Lafayette]
1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1893 – Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
1899 – Fratton Park football ground in Portsmouth, England is officially first opened.
1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
1914 – A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1914 – World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
1914 – World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
• [Battle of Cer]
• [Serbian campaign]
• [Serbian Field Marshal Stepa Stepanovic I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?]
1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
• [Battle of Warsaw (1920)]
• [Battle of Warsaw - Turning Point of Polish-Soviet War I THE GREAT WAR 1920]
• [Polish–Soviet War]
1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
• [Remembering Wiley Post and Will Rogers]
1939 – Twenty-six Junkers Ju 87 bombers commanded by Walter Sigel meet unexpected ground fog during a dive-bombing demonstration for Luftwaffe generals at Neuhammer. Thirteen of them crash and burn.
1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
1945 – Jewel Voice Broadcast by the Emperor Showa following effective surrender of Japan in the World War II, Korea gains Independence from the Empire of Japan.
1947 – India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
1948 – The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula.
1950 – Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurrs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.
1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
1954 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
1960 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
1961 – Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
• [Wikipedia: Nixon Shock]
• [Nixon Ends Convertibility of US Dollars to Gold and Announces Wage/Price Controls]
• [The End of the Gold-backed US-$ - Nixon Shock in August 1971]
• [The Challenge of Peace - President Nixon's Address to the Nation on A New Economic Policy]
• [The Nixon Shock: The Closing of the Gold Window in 1971 (HOM 35-C)]
• [What if the DOLLAR Was Still Pegged to GOLD | Gold Standard | ENDEVR Explains]
• [How Nixon Killed the U.S. Dollar]
• [End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless | Gold | Financial Crisis | ENDEVR Documentary]
1971 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 – Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends.
1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung-hee.
1975 – Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
1975 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
• [The Wow! Signal: Actual Recording]
• [Wikipedia: Wow! signal]
• [Wow! mystery signal from space finally explained]
• [The Mystery of the Wow! Signal]
1984 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
1985 – Signing of the Assam Accord, an agreement between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement to end the movement.
1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
1998 – Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.
2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
2013 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
2013 – The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.
2015 – North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, August 15, 2024
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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