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National News
Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure will remain over the region through the weekend, maintaining dry conditions and keeping temperatures a little cooler- than-normal until Sunday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds by midmorning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the north 3 to 6 mph.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs near 80. Light winds out of the north.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the north.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Tropical Update
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Tue Aug 20 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 over the northwestern Atlantic near Newfoundland.
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-high range (8.7 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.5 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 20th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin in 1983
Lowest Temperature 48°F iat the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1943
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.41 inches in Highlands in 1935
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began in 1871)
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)
Record Weather Events for August 20th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1988
Lowest Temperature 39°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1943
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.61 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County in 1961
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
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)
Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
August 2024 Schedule
8-24-24—Barry Roma—King of the Area Crooners, come hear Barry lend his baritone voice to oldies by Sinatra, Orbison, Johnny Mathis and more. You’ll fall in love just like you did in the 50’s and 60’s by the light of that drive-in screen.
8-31-24---Jim Austin’s Classic Country Band—Country Classics that you don’t hear on the radio anymore. You’ll love the history of the artists and the big sound of the band with Jim Austin and his talented group.
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---
NC schools running out of money to replace student laptops | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
Bryson City residents, businesses shocked by steep water rate increase | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
• (video) Robinson, Morrow say they would turn down federal education dollars [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• For the first time in its history, Duke University will offer a Cherokee language course [WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC)]
• Mission Hospital's nurse union gearing up for strike vote [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• A hero’s welcome: Evy Leibfarth celebrated in Bryson City [BPR News]
• Of parched corn and rank strangers: Ahead of new book, Gary Carden reflects on a lifetime of storytelling [Smoky Mountain News]
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Videos and links to news articles
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (8.7 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.5 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for August 20th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin in 1983
Lowest Temperature 48°F iat the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1943
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.41 inches in Highlands in 1935
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began in 1871)
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)
Record Weather Events for August 20th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1988
Lowest Temperature 39°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1943
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.61 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County in 1961
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
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)
Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
August 2024 Schedule
8-24-24—Barry Roma—King of the Area Crooners, come hear Barry lend his baritone voice to oldies by Sinatra, Orbison, Johnny Mathis and more. You’ll fall in love just like you did in the 50’s and 60’s by the light of that drive-in screen.
8-31-24---Jim Austin’s Classic Country Band—Country Classics that you don’t hear on the radio anymore. You’ll love the history of the artists and the big sound of the band with Jim Austin and his talented group.
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---
NC schools running out of money to replace student laptops | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
Bryson City residents, businesses shocked by steep water rate increase | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
• (video) Robinson, Morrow say they would turn down federal education dollars [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• For the first time in its history, Duke University will offer a Cherokee language course [WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC)]
• Mission Hospital's nurse union gearing up for strike vote [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• A hero’s welcome: Evy Leibfarth celebrated in Bryson City [BPR News]
• Of parched corn and rank strangers: Ahead of new book, Gary Carden reflects on a lifetime of storytelling [Smoky Mountain News]
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Videos and links to news articles
Remembering iconic talk show host Phil Donahue | ABC News
SpaceX sending private citizens on risky mission that includes spacewalk attempt | CBS News
• On one night, two places in the Northeast get hit with 1-in-1,000 year rainfall [NBc News]
• US intelligence officials say Iran is to blame for hacks targeting Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns [AP News]
• AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC to Reject SpaceX Plan for Cellular Starlink [PC Magazine]
• Phil Donahue, Talk Host Who Made Audiences Part of the Show, Dies at 88 [New York Times]
• Pentagon launches website to track military housing issues after years of relaxed oversight [Star and Stripes]
• Tesla semi-truck fire prompts I-80 closure in California as hazmat response halts Sierra Nevada freeway traffic [CBS News]
• Manhattan DA responds to Trump’s ‘bizarre’ bid to delay hush-money sentencing [Courthouse News Service]
---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---
Democratic National Convention (Day 1) | C-SPAN
President Biden Full Address at 2024 Democratic National Convention | C-SPAN
Hillary Clinton Full Speech at 2024 Democratic National Convention | C-SPAN
Trump defends personal attacks against Harris | CBS Evening News
• Democrats are jubilant, but now comes the hard part for Harris [Politico]
• Joe Biden’s exit, talk of the glass ceiling, a nod to Gaza protesters. Takeaways from DNC’s Day 1 [AP News]
• Joe Biden gets a rousing ovation from Democrats as he gives Kamala Harris an enthusiastic endorsement [Chicago Tribunex]
• Protestors break through portion of security barrier on first night of DNC [WGN-TV (Chicago, IL)]
• Five takeaways from Day One of the Democratic National Convention [The Hill]
• 'The future is here': Hillary Clinton passes torch to Kamala Harris [NBC News]
International News Headlines
The Full Report: The battle for the gateway to Myanmar | Al Jazeera
New report says taxing extreme wealth has positive results | DW News
• What Iran’s attack against Israel could look like with the support of regional allies [AP News]
• China’s youth unemployment soars above 17% in July, highest since new system began in December [NBC News]
• Belarus will not stop migrants from heading to EU, says Lukashenko [TVp World]
• US-backed mission in Haiti struggles to take on gang violence [The Hill]
• U.S. to stand by S. Korea, other allies against N. Korean threats: 2024 Democratic platform [Yonhap News Agency]
• Too many people, not enough management: Chaos of 'overtourism' in summer of 2024 [The Mainichi]
Updates on MV Dali | Offload of Containers in Norfolk | Crew | Repairs | Liability for Damage | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today Podcast (8/19/2024): Democratic National Convention Begins in Chicago | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 19, 2024 | What to watch for at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 19, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 198, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 19, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 19, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Discovery of the Largest Protein Ever, In the Most Unlikely of Organisms (PKZILLA) | Sabine Hossenfelder
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from August 16 to 23: It’s a Blue Sturgeon Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 16 – 25 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Status Report and Expectations for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show August 20 2024: Social Insecurity | Level1 Techs
Behind the Data - DTNS 4835 with Andrea Jones-Rooy and Dhrumil Mehta | Daily Tech News Show
It's Happening - China Launches World's First Thorium Nuclear Reactor | Dr Ben Miles
Fermi Paradox Explained by Quantum Communication | Sabine Hossenfelder
• What is the hottest temperature humans can survive? These labs are redefining the limit [Naturex]
• Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. [ARS TECHNICA]
• The means for mapping martian meteorites [University of Alberta]
• Video: $16,000 humanoid robot ready to leap into mass production [New Atlas]
• GPS-free navigation nears reality with quantum breakthrough [TechSpot]
• Clean lithium extraction possible with new zero-water, zero-chemical method [Interesting Engineering]
---Medical News Roundup---
Beyond the Noise #44: Donald Trump v. vaccines | MIcrobe TV
TWiV 1141: Being green with the Red Queen | Microbe TV
• Differentiation of Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Postacute Sequelae by Standard Clinical Laboratory Measurements in the RECOVER Cohort [ACP Journals]
• Molecular architecture of coronavirus double-membrane vesicle pore complex [Nature]
• Now that mpox is a global health emergency, will it trigger another pandemic? [AP News]
• COVID Warning as New KP.3.1.1 Variant Rises to US Dominance: 'Buckle Up' [https://www.newsweek.com/covid-variant-rises-us-dominance-flirt-1934583]
• Why does it feel like everyone is getting Covid? [Vox]
• The U.S. is seeing a summer COVID-19 surge, but hospitalizations remain low [PBS NewsHour]
• Beyond the Noise #44: Donald Trump v. vaccines [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1140: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1141: Being green with the Red Queen [Microbe TV]
---Russo-Ukraine War News Roundup---
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces push into the Kursk region | Military Mind | TVP World
An inside look at how Ukrainian forces invaded Russia | CBS Evening News
Chaos, Costs, and Coercion: Ukraine's Three-Pronged Strategy in Kursk | William Spaniel
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 19, 2024 [Indtitute for the Study of War]
• Ukraine updates: India's Modi to visit Kyiv [Dw News]
• Liveblog: Ukraine controls 92 settlements in Russia’s Kursk region, Zelensky says [France 24]
• Fuel depot fire in Russia’s Rostov region expands on second day after drone attack [Euromaidan Press]
• U.S. vet wanted on child porn charge appears to be fighting for Russia against Ukraine [NBC News]
• Moscow says talks with Kiev 'impossible' after Kursk offensive [DPA International (via Yahoo News)]
---PRO-RUSSIAN NEWS OUTLETS---
• Zelensky reveals goals of Kursk Region incursion [Russia Today]
• Ukraine redeploys new forces to Kursk, destroy bridges over region's largest river [Pravda]
• Over 800 people evacuated from Kursk Region during past day [TASS: Russian News Agency]
---Israel-Hamas War News Roundup (aka Iraninan Proxy War with Israel)---
Israeli settlers burn Palestinian West Bank village in mass attack | BBC News
Blinken Arrives to Push Gaza Ceasefire as Hezbollah Pummels Northern Israel with Projectiles | CBN News
Israel Daily News – War Day 318 | August 19, 2024 | ILTV Israel News
‘The entire health sector has collapsed in Gaza’: Palestinian doctor | Al Jazeera
• Phone call lured Hezbollah’s Shukr to his Beirut apartment minutes before strike – report [The Times of Israel]
• Middle East: Blinken says Netanyahu supports cease-fire deal [DW News]
• Israel’s war on Gaza liveblog: Hamas says US ‘buying time for Israeli genocide’ [Al Jazeera]
• Liveblog: False alarms sound in Israel's North, hostage families make appearance at DNC [Jerusalem Post]
• Iran Update (Israel-Hamas War), August 19, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Liveblog: Blinken says he has asked Israel to take action against settler violence [France 24]
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On This Day
August 20th is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 133 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)
AD 14 – Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards under mysterious circumstances while in exile.
636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the Levant away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Yarmuk]
• Battle of Yarmouk [(Part 1/2) ⚔️ Storm gathers in the Middle East] [(Part 2/2) ⚔️ Byzantine - Rashidun Clash at Yarmouk]
• [Battle of Yarmouk 636 (Early Muslim Invasion) ]
• [Muslim conquest of the Levant]
917 – Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army.
1083 – Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
1191 – Richard I of England initiates the Massacre at Ayyadieh, leaving 2,600–3,000 Muslim hostages dead.
• [Massacre at Ayyadieh]
• [Massacre at Ayyadieh (1191) // Richard Lionheart and Saladin // As told by Baha-ad-din]
1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy.
1391 – Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.
1467 – The Second Battle of Olmedo takes places as part of a succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
1519 – Philosopher and general Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
1672 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by an angry mob in The Hague.
1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Pensacola (1707)]
• [Queen Anne's War]
1710 – War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
1794 – Northwest Indian War: United States troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
• [Battle of Fallen Timbers]
• [From Fallen Timbers to the Treaty of Greenville]
• [Battle of Fallen Timbers & Treaty of Greenville APUSH Review]
1852 – Steamboat Atlantic sank on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
• [Link to Journal]
• [Khan Academy]
• [Natural Selection: Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace]
1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
• [Wikipedia: 1812 Overture]
• [5 truly explosive performances of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture]
• [1812 Overture performed by the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder at the Royal Albert Hall during the Nations Favourite Prom 2004]
1910 – Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2) and killing 87 people.
1914 – World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
1920 – The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
1926 – Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
1940 – In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
• [Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Leon Trotsky]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Ramón Mercader]
1940 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
1944 – World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
1948 – Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob M. Lomakin is expelled by the United States, due to the Kasenkina Case.
1955 – Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1960 – Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
1962 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
• [Wikipedia: NS Savannah]
• [NS Savannah - Under Way (1959)]
• [N.S. Savannah Association]
• [NS Savannah Control / Engine Room Tour]
• [NS Savannah in Drydock in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 17, 2019]
1968 – Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
1975 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1977 – Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
• [VOYAGER 2 - Launch ] (Fun Fact: The Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1)
• [Voyager 2 Trajectory through the Solar System]
• [Voyager 2 Page at JPL]
1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1988 – "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
• [Wikipedia: Yellowstone fires of 1988]
• [Yellowstone Aflame: The Great Yellowstone Fires of '88 • 60 FPS 1989]
• [The Story Behind the Yellowstone Fires of 1988 | Retro Report | The New York Times]
1988 – Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
1988 – The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
• [Remembering the Overthrow of Gorbachev, 20 Years Later]
• [Attempted coup against Gorbachev collapses]
1991 – Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1995 – The Firozabad rail disaster claimed 358 lives in Firozabad, India.
1997 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 – U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
• [Operation Infinite Reach]
• [News coverage of Operation Infinite Reach (US attacks Sudan/Afghanistan) part 1-WPVI 6abc/WCAU NBC10]
• [Statement on Military Strikes in Sudan and Afghanistan (1998)]
2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
2007 – China Airlines Flight 120 caught fire and exploded after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
2008 – Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
2012 – A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
2014 – Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
2016 – Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
2020 – Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
• [Joe Biden Acceptance Speech at 2020 Democratic National Convention]
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, August 20, 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.
President Biden Full Address at 2024 Democratic National Convention | C-SPAN
Hillary Clinton Full Speech at 2024 Democratic National Convention | C-SPAN
Trump defends personal attacks against Harris | CBS Evening News
• Democrats are jubilant, but now comes the hard part for Harris [Politico]
• Joe Biden’s exit, talk of the glass ceiling, a nod to Gaza protesters. Takeaways from DNC’s Day 1 [AP News]
• Joe Biden gets a rousing ovation from Democrats as he gives Kamala Harris an enthusiastic endorsement [Chicago Tribunex]
• Protestors break through portion of security barrier on first night of DNC [WGN-TV (Chicago, IL)]
• Five takeaways from Day One of the Democratic National Convention [The Hill]
• 'The future is here': Hillary Clinton passes torch to Kamala Harris [NBC News]
International News Headlines
The Full Report: The battle for the gateway to Myanmar | Al Jazeera
New report says taxing extreme wealth has positive results | DW News
• What Iran’s attack against Israel could look like with the support of regional allies [AP News]
• China’s youth unemployment soars above 17% in July, highest since new system began in December [NBC News]
• Belarus will not stop migrants from heading to EU, says Lukashenko [TVp World]
• US-backed mission in Haiti struggles to take on gang violence [The Hill]
• U.S. to stand by S. Korea, other allies against N. Korean threats: 2024 Democratic platform [Yonhap News Agency]
• Too many people, not enough management: Chaos of 'overtourism' in summer of 2024 [The Mainichi]
Updates on MV Dali | Offload of Containers in Norfolk | Crew | Repairs | Liability for Damage | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today Podcast (8/19/2024): Democratic National Convention Begins in Chicago | C-SPAN
Global National: Aug. 19, 2024 | What to watch for at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Aug. 19, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Aug. 198, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Aug. 19, 2024
PBS NewsHour live episode, (Aug. 19, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Discovery of the Largest Protein Ever, In the Most Unlikely of Organisms (PKZILLA) | Sabine Hossenfelder
• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• The Sky This Week from August 16 to 23: It’s a Blue Sturgeon Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 16 – 25 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Status Report and Expectations for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show August 20 2024: Social Insecurity | Level1 Techs
Behind the Data - DTNS 4835 with Andrea Jones-Rooy and Dhrumil Mehta | Daily Tech News Show
It's Happening - China Launches World's First Thorium Nuclear Reactor | Dr Ben Miles
Fermi Paradox Explained by Quantum Communication | Sabine Hossenfelder
• What is the hottest temperature humans can survive? These labs are redefining the limit [Naturex]
• Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. [ARS TECHNICA]
• The means for mapping martian meteorites [University of Alberta]
• Video: $16,000 humanoid robot ready to leap into mass production [New Atlas]
• GPS-free navigation nears reality with quantum breakthrough [TechSpot]
• Clean lithium extraction possible with new zero-water, zero-chemical method [Interesting Engineering]
---Medical News Roundup---
Beyond the Noise #44: Donald Trump v. vaccines | MIcrobe TV
TWiV 1141: Being green with the Red Queen | Microbe TV
• Differentiation of Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Postacute Sequelae by Standard Clinical Laboratory Measurements in the RECOVER Cohort [ACP Journals]
• Molecular architecture of coronavirus double-membrane vesicle pore complex [Nature]
• Now that mpox is a global health emergency, will it trigger another pandemic? [AP News]
• COVID Warning as New KP.3.1.1 Variant Rises to US Dominance: 'Buckle Up' [https://www.newsweek.com/covid-variant-rises-us-dominance-flirt-1934583]
• Why does it feel like everyone is getting Covid? [Vox]
• The U.S. is seeing a summer COVID-19 surge, but hospitalizations remain low [PBS NewsHour]
• Beyond the Noise #44: Donald Trump v. vaccines [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1140: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1141: Being green with the Red Queen [Microbe TV]
---Russo-Ukraine War News Roundup---
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces push into the Kursk region | Military Mind | TVP World
An inside look at how Ukrainian forces invaded Russia | CBS Evening News
Chaos, Costs, and Coercion: Ukraine's Three-Pronged Strategy in Kursk | William Spaniel
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 19, 2024 [Indtitute for the Study of War]
• Ukraine updates: India's Modi to visit Kyiv [Dw News]
• Liveblog: Ukraine controls 92 settlements in Russia’s Kursk region, Zelensky says [France 24]
• Fuel depot fire in Russia’s Rostov region expands on second day after drone attack [Euromaidan Press]
• U.S. vet wanted on child porn charge appears to be fighting for Russia against Ukraine [NBC News]
• Moscow says talks with Kiev 'impossible' after Kursk offensive [DPA International (via Yahoo News)]
---PRO-RUSSIAN NEWS OUTLETS---
• Zelensky reveals goals of Kursk Region incursion [Russia Today]
• Ukraine redeploys new forces to Kursk, destroy bridges over region's largest river [Pravda]
• Over 800 people evacuated from Kursk Region during past day [TASS: Russian News Agency]
---Israel-Hamas War News Roundup (aka Iraninan Proxy War with Israel)---
Israeli settlers burn Palestinian West Bank village in mass attack | BBC News
Blinken Arrives to Push Gaza Ceasefire as Hezbollah Pummels Northern Israel with Projectiles | CBN News
Israel Daily News – War Day 318 | August 19, 2024 | ILTV Israel News
‘The entire health sector has collapsed in Gaza’: Palestinian doctor | Al Jazeera
• Phone call lured Hezbollah’s Shukr to his Beirut apartment minutes before strike – report [The Times of Israel]
• Middle East: Blinken says Netanyahu supports cease-fire deal [DW News]
• Israel’s war on Gaza liveblog: Hamas says US ‘buying time for Israeli genocide’ [Al Jazeera]
• Liveblog: False alarms sound in Israel's North, hostage families make appearance at DNC [Jerusalem Post]
• Iran Update (Israel-Hamas War), August 19, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Liveblog: Blinken says he has asked Israel to take action against settler violence [France 24]
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On This Day
August 20th is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 133 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)
AD 14 – Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards under mysterious circumstances while in exile.
636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the Levant away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Yarmuk]
• Battle of Yarmouk [(Part 1/2) ⚔️ Storm gathers in the Middle East] [(Part 2/2) ⚔️ Byzantine - Rashidun Clash at Yarmouk]
• [Battle of Yarmouk 636 (Early Muslim Invasion) ]
• [Muslim conquest of the Levant]
917 – Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army.
1083 – Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
1191 – Richard I of England initiates the Massacre at Ayyadieh, leaving 2,600–3,000 Muslim hostages dead.
• [Massacre at Ayyadieh]
• [Massacre at Ayyadieh (1191) // Richard Lionheart and Saladin // As told by Baha-ad-din]
1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy.
1391 – Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.
1467 – The Second Battle of Olmedo takes places as part of a succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
1519 – Philosopher and general Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
1672 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by an angry mob in The Hague.
1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Pensacola (1707)]
• [Queen Anne's War]
1710 – War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
1794 – Northwest Indian War: United States troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
• [Battle of Fallen Timbers]
• [From Fallen Timbers to the Treaty of Greenville]
• [Battle of Fallen Timbers & Treaty of Greenville APUSH Review]
1852 – Steamboat Atlantic sank on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
• [Link to Journal]
• [Khan Academy]
• [Natural Selection: Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace]
1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
• [Wikipedia: 1812 Overture]
• [5 truly explosive performances of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture]
• [1812 Overture performed by the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder at the Royal Albert Hall during the Nations Favourite Prom 2004]
1910 – Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2) and killing 87 people.
1914 – World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
1920 – The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
1926 – Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
1940 – In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
• [Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Leon Trotsky]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Ramón Mercader]
1940 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
1944 – World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
1948 – Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob M. Lomakin is expelled by the United States, due to the Kasenkina Case.
1955 – Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1960 – Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
1962 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
• [Wikipedia: NS Savannah]
• [NS Savannah - Under Way (1959)]
• [N.S. Savannah Association]
• [NS Savannah Control / Engine Room Tour]
• [NS Savannah in Drydock in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 17, 2019]
1968 – Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
1975 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1977 – Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
• [VOYAGER 2 - Launch ] (Fun Fact: The Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1)
• [Voyager 2 Trajectory through the Solar System]
• [Voyager 2 Page at JPL]
1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1988 – "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
• [Wikipedia: Yellowstone fires of 1988]
• [Yellowstone Aflame: The Great Yellowstone Fires of '88 • 60 FPS 1989]
• [The Story Behind the Yellowstone Fires of 1988 | Retro Report | The New York Times]
1988 – Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
1988 – The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
• [Remembering the Overthrow of Gorbachev, 20 Years Later]
• [Attempted coup against Gorbachev collapses]
1991 – Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1995 – The Firozabad rail disaster claimed 358 lives in Firozabad, India.
1997 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 – U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
• [Operation Infinite Reach]
• [News coverage of Operation Infinite Reach (US attacks Sudan/Afghanistan) part 1-WPVI 6abc/WCAU NBC10]
• [Statement on Military Strikes in Sudan and Afghanistan (1998)]
2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
2007 – China Airlines Flight 120 caught fire and exploded after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
2008 – Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
2012 – A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
2014 – Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
2016 – Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
2020 – Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
• [Joe Biden Acceptance Speech at 2020 Democratic National Convention]
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, August 20, 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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