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Newspaper Page Text“GOOD MORNING Sunday, December 30,2018 | gainesvilletimes.com Nothing scary or mysterious about circumpolar vortex LOTTERY I Drawings for Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018 CASH 3 Midday: 0-5-1 Evening: 7-1-3 Night: 5-3-3 CASH 4 Midday: 0-5-6-8 Evening: 0-6-0-9 Night: 5-3-7-8 FANTASY FIVE 7-32-12-3-24 GEORGIA FIVE Midday: 2-2-9-8-1 Evening: 2-3-3-2-1 POWERBALL (12/29) 12-42-51 -53-62 Power Ball: 25 Current jackpot: S40M MEGA MILLIONS (12/28) 9-10-25-37-38 Mega Ball: 21 Current jackpot: $415M Lottery numbers are unofficial. Some results may be unavailable at press time; for updated numbers, visit gainesvilletimes.com/lottery. The Georgia Lottery Corp.: 404-215-5000. TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1813, British troops burned Buffalo, New York, during the War of 1812. In 1860,10 days after South Carolina seceded from the Union, the state militia seized the United States Arsenal in Charleston. In 1916, Grigory Rasputin, the so-called “Mad Monk” who wielded considerable influence with Czar Nicholas II, was killed by a group of Russian noblemen in St. Petersburg. In 1922, Vladimir Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which lasted nearly seven decades before dissolving in December 1991. In 1936, the United Auto Workers union staged its first “sit- down” strike at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint, Michigan. (The strike lasted until Feb. 11,1937.) In 1940, California’s first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena, was officially opened by Gov. Culbert L. Olson. In 1965, Ferdinand Marcos was inaugurated for his first term as president of the Philippines. In 1979, Broadway composer Richard Rodgers died in New York at age 77. BIRTHDAYS Actor RussTamblyn is 84. Baseball Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax is 83. Folk singer Noel Paul Stookey is 81. TV director Janies Buitows is 78. Actor Fred Ward is 76. Singer-mu sician Michael Nesmith is 76. Actress ConcettaTomei is 73. Singer Patti Smith is 72. Rock singer-musician Jeff Lynne is 71. TV per sonality Meredith Vieira is 65. Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph is 63. Actress Patri cia Kalember is 62. Coun try singer Suzy Bogguss is 62. Former “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer is 61. Actress-comedian Tracey Ullman is 59. Rock musician Rob Hotchkiss is 58. Radio-TV com mentator Sean Hannity is 57. Sprinter Ben Johnson is 57. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is 55. WEATHER | Gainesville 5-Day Forecast # AccuWeather download the free app | TODAY TONIGHT MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Occasional rain Spotty showers Cloudy with a shower Mostly cloudy; mild HIGH: 56° LOW: 52° 64759° 64746 s RFT: 64756° I RFT: 63745 Heavy morning rain 51734° Rain 49732 s RFT: 45 /26 Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: 55% 65% 55% 25% 75% 85% RFT: The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature® is an exclusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors. Almanac Regional Weather Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Q O Blair anion -J. 56/51 El I i 56/ Morganton 55/51 I May i/51 o Talking Rock 56/53 .0 A. 56/51 T;" M ‘ Turners Corner 56/52 o Cleveland W" s?”* ° 1 sr" o§j.ii. loccoa _ s, rrA Murrayville O 56/51’ Nelson o Dawsonville G 129 56/52 56/51 Gamesville ojtomer —- 1—- commerce Lula 56/52 Canton j 56/5 n °?(™ ood S.P B Commt 57/53 56/53 ° * '57/54 Y, Buford O ***** -1) II ' 56/52 DuluthO 57/53 Q Tg Buford O m :... v, /ttoswell Jr 56/52/g^sO^ 56/52 O Du|u , h0 Q @ 57/53 .A//^ winder W 29' ' 1 ' * Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 iens & Statistics for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport through 5 p.m. yesterday Temperature High/low 61°48° Normal high/low 49733° Record high 72° in 1984 Record low 10° in 1925 Precipitation (in inches) 24 hrs. ending 5 p.m. yest. Month to date 0.00 11.38 Normal month to date 4.37 Year to date 68.03 Normal year to date 52.87 Record for date 1.83 in 1935 Main Offender: Particulates Source: Environmental Protection Agency Pollen Yesterday Trees “°“o' ' ' I Grass absent Weeds absent Low Mod. High Verjj Main Offender: Juniper Source: National Allergy Bureau City Today Hi Lo W Tomorrow Hi Lo W Albany 74 64 c 77 66 c Atlanta 59 56 r 70 61 c Augusta 63 57 r 74 64 c Brunswick 72 62 pc 72 61 pc Chattanooga 54 50 r 68 56 sh City Today Hi Lo W Tomorrow Hi Lo W Columbus 68 62 r 73 66 c Dalton 54 50 r 67 55 t Greenville 58 50 sh 63 59 c Macon 66 60 r 74 65 c Savannah 72 62 c 76 63 pc Some reports sound like there’s a mon ster coming to kill us all. “Scientists warn of possible polar vor tex,” the headline on a major news site proclaimed on Dec. 20. Recently, the polar vortex term has become popular for its scary undertone. “It sounds like it could be some sort of alien death-ray...” said the National Oceanic and Atmo spheric Administration’s scijinks. gov website. What does it all mean? In essence, current weather out looks suggest that we may get a few strong winter storms. There is nothing sensationally new in that. The circumpolar vortex, covered in every atmospheric science book, was first described in the 1850s, and explained in detail by Carl-Gustaf Rossby in 1939. A cap of cold air turns over the Arctic. Where it meets warmer air, high-altitude winds get very fast. That boundary is called the jet stream. When the cold air expands, the jet stream bounces southward, and frigid air reaches the U.S. Southeast, along with a frontal system that can bring frozen precipitation. Bingo, the vortex has struck. It shouldn’t make experienced Georgians emigrate to Costa Rica. Just think back to 1985. On Jan. 19, Gainesville had a low of 33 and a high of 50 degrees. The next night, “The Vortex” came, bringing a low of 8 degrees. The following night, it dropped to minus 8 Fahrenheit, turning all my house plumbing into solid ice. The afternoon barely reached 12 degrees. Daytime tem peratures went above 32 a couple of days later, but it wasn’t until Jan. 31 that the nightly freeze-ups stopped. Christmas of 1983 was worse, with tem peratures dropping below zero, and freez ing rain making North Georgia roads impassable. At the time, such outbreaks were called “Siberian Express.” Frigid air from Northern Russia was over running the Arctic, reaching North America. The steering force in all of this was, and is, the jet stream. It works like a train track high up in the atmosphere, guiding the winter storms. When it swings southward, news stations like to mention the newly fashionable term. Frozen conditions are certainly com ing. But it’s not the vortex itself that will harm us. Car crashes, not freezing to death, are the major cause of fatalities in winter storms. The easiest way to guard against the main effects of the vortex is to keep tires in good condition, allow more travel time, and drive defensively. Rudi Kiefer, Ph.D., is a professor at Brenau University, teaching physical and health sciences on Brenau’s Georgia campuses and in China. His column appears Sundays and at gainesvilletimes.com. AROUND TOWN TODAY Mark and Jody Jam. 2 - 6 p.m. Good ol’ Days Bar and Grill, 419 Atlanta Road, Cumming. Free. Magical Nights of Lights. 5 - 10 p.m. Lanier Islands, 7000 Lanier Islands Parkway, Buford. 770-945-8787. $43 - $260. Pregnancy and infant loss support. 6-8 p.m. Rock Goodbye Angel, 615 Oak St., Suite G, Gainesville. 407-252-9884, angela@RockGoodbyeAngel.com. Free. MONDAY New Year’s Eve Celebration. 4:49 a.m. Ramada Gainesville, 400 EE Butler Parkway, Gainesville. New Year’s Noon Day Celebration! 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Gainesville Library, Gainesville. Dance Through the Decades New Year’s Count down! 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Sharon Forks Library, 2820 Old Atlanta Road, Cumming. Noon Year’s Eve Celebration. 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Hampton Park Library, 5345 Settingdown Road, Cumming. Noon Year’s Eve Dance Party. 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Spout Springs Branch Library, 6488 Spout Springs Road, Flowery Branch. New Years Eve Dance Around the World! 1:15 to 2 p.m. Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. Magical Nights of Lights. 5 - 10 p.m. Lanier Islands, 7000 Lanier Islands Parkway, Buford. 770-945-8787. $43 - $260. Kinect Family Fun Night. 5 - 7:30 p.m. North Hall Tech Center, 4175 Nopone Road, Suite B, Gainesville. ADDA New Years Party. 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. ADDA Sports Pub & Eatery, 3455 Peachtree Parkway, Suwanee. Dahlonega’s Old Fashioned Christmas. 5 p.m. 13 South Park St., Dahlonega. 706-892-9741. Free. Cosmetics personal makeup lessons and make overs. 7-10 p.m. Ulta Beauty, 3205 Woodward Crossing Blvd., Buford. New Year’s Eve Square Dance. 7:30 p.m. to 12 a.m. First Presbyterian Church gym, 800 South Enota Drive, Gainesville. 678-956-0287, mcclureac@charter.net. $15-$20. Atlanta Pops Orchestra New Year’s 2018.8 p.m. Cumming Playhouse, 101 School St., Cumming. $30 - $32.50. Year End Tax Planning. Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. TUESDAY Publish your event Don’t see your event here? Go to gainesvilletimes.com/calendar to add it. Events publish at the editors’ discretion and as space allows. Call 770-718-3417 with questions. WEDNESDAY Handbuilding Basics with Mary Hull. 10 a.m. to noon. Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green St. NE, Gainesville. 770-536-2575, musesroost@gmail.com. $150 - $175. Fiber Arts and Friends. 10 a.m. to noon. Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. Yoga for Beginners. 10-11:30 a.m. Blackshear Place Branch Library, 2927 Atlanta Highway, Gainesville. Book Club. 10:30 -11:30 a.m. Spout Springs Branch Library, 6488 Spout Springs Road, Flowery Branch. Computer Classes at the Gainesville Library. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Hall County Library System, Gainesville Branch, 127 Main St. NW, Gainesville. 770-532-3311, ext. 114, gkoecher@hallcountylibrary.org. Free. A Colorful Storytime with Esteban, from ‘The Day The Crayons Quit’. 10:30 a.m. to noon. Cum ming Library, 585 Dahlonega St., Cumming. Toddler Play. 10:30 -11 a.m. Spout Springs Branch Library, 6488 Spout Springs Road, Flowery Branch. Giant Games Day! 1:15 to 3:15 p.m. Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. American Red Cross Blood Drive. 2 - 7 p.m. Sharon Forks Library, 2820 Old Atlanta Road, Cumming. Paws to Read. 4 - 5:30 p.m. Cumming Library, 585 Dahlonega St., Cumming. Literary Potluck Book Club. 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Winder Public Library, 189 BellviewSt., Winder. Nar Anon Family Support Group. 6-7 p.m. Family Life Center, First Baptist Church, 751 Green St. NW, Gainesville. 770-540-4395, kentmurphey@gmail.com. Free. Teen Team Trivia. 6:30 - 8 p.m. Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. The Secret to Getting A’s in College. 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Sharon Forks Library, 2820 Old Atlanta Road, Cumming. A Course in Miracles Text - Chapter 13.IX The Cloud of Guilt. 7 p.m. ACIM Study Group, 875 Scales Road, Suwanee. THURSDAY Gainesville City Council work session. 9 a.m. Administration Building board room, third floor, 300 Henry Ward Way, Gainesville. 770-535-6865. UV Index 0 VL 0 0 9 a.m. Noon 3 p.m. 6 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Lake Levels Lake data in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday Lake Full Pool Present Level 24 hr Change Lake Lanier 1071.0 1072.97 +2.11 Allatoona Lake 840.0 827.86 +4.41 Burton Lake 1865.0 1862.55 +1.79 Clark’s Hill Lake 330.0 326.47 -0.06 Hartwell Lake 660.0 660.56 +1.25 Russell Lake 480.0 474.89 -0.28 West Point Lake 635.0 630.90 +2.27 Sun and Moon Sunrise today 7:41 a.m. Sunset tonight 5:35 p.m. Moonrise today 1:29 a.m. Moonset today 1:29 p.m. New First Full Last O O 0 0 Jan 5 Jan 14 Jan 21 Jan 27 She Sfmcs gainesvilletimes.com A Metro Market Media Publication ©2018, Vol. 71, No. 364 Sunday, December 30, 2018 HOWTO REACH US 345 Green St. N.W, Gainesville, GA 30501 P.0. Box 838, Gainesville, GA 30503 (770) 532-1234 or (800) 395-5005 Hours: 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Drive thru open: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Mon.-Fri. 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If you grew up in an environ ment that wasn’t conducive to attaining wealth, don’t worry. New teachers are coming into your realm, and you’re now ready to learn. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The power of a smile can certainly reverse the tone of an interac tion, which you’ll prove today as you let the tension out of a potentially terse interaction with the magic of your pearly whites. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Those who are younger, espe cially under 8 years old, have something to teach you about your own worthiness, because they accept you for who you are and want lots of your atten tion for reasons outside of the superficial. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Feeling good won’t be com plicated. The single best thing you can do for your mood is exercise in fresh air. This will set everything straight. You’ll crave better nutrition and hy dration. You’ll sleep better, too. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The “helper’s high” is a measur able state of brain chemistry, so don’t doubt that you will be boosted mentally and physi cally by following through on an impulse to give. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The energy of joy cannot be felt un less it’s moving, and the quick est way to move it is to give. So though you can certainly be truly happy inside yourself, you still need to connect to others to keep the current strong. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). You’ve cultivated a safe space around yourself, maybe without even realizing it. So it should come as no surprise that people share with you, sometimes things they don’t even tell their nearest and dearest. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There are carefree impulses you could follow — fun, color ful, opinionated and outside the social norms. You’re not afraid to heed them, but what would be the underlying rea son? And at what cost? You’ll give it a think. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). If people are made better through sacrifice and charac ters are made stronger through hardship and hearts are made kinder through heartbreak, then the question “What’s in it for me?” becomes much more complicated. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) To avoid burnout, just remem ber that you don’t have to try unless you want to. You give back to the world every day in small ways just by being you. When it’s time to make a push to the next incarnation of you, you’ll know. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Because you’re ready to learn something new, you give off a welcoming energy that even the birds and squirrels can feel, not to mention people around you who come closer in the spirit of curiosity, seeking com mon ground. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If you needed another reason to make yourself happy, consider that every person in the room is contributing to the vibes there. Your happiness will raise the level of everyone else who shares the space.