OUTLOOK
Dry and relatively cool conditions will prevail across the area today. Moisture and warmer temperatures return to the area through the rest of the week ahead of an approaching cold front, with isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms possible each afternoon through the weekend.
GoFundMe Established to Benefit Children of David and Dawn Head
On Saturday, 5/23/2020, Macon County Sheriff's Deputy David Head and his wife, Dawn, a Physical Therapist with Highlands/Cashiers Hospital, were tragically killed in an automobile accident. They leave behind four children, Jeslyn Head (17), J.D. Head (13), Erin Sanborn (17), and Sidney Sanborn (19). This fund has been set up by the employees of the Macon County Sheriff's Office in an effort to help all 4 children of David and Dawn Head. [LINK]
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News Briefing Moved
Due to the length of this morning's news briefing, it has been moved to between the weather briefing segment and the COVID-19 segment. Scroll down to see it.
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Today
Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy. Lows ranging from around 60 to the 50s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly sunny. Highs ranging from the 70s to the lower 80s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy. Lows ranging from the lower 60s to the upper 50s.
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Tropical Weather
(The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st through November 30th)
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Jun 1 2020
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. The remnants of Eastern Pacific Tropical Storm Amanda are currently located inland near the Guatemala-Yucatan Border. This large disturbance is forecast to move slowly northward this morning, followed by a northwestward motion later today, and the center of the low pressure system could emerge over the southeastern Bay of Campeche by this evening. If the remnants move back over water, environmental conditions appear conducive to support some development, and a new tropical depression could form while the system moves little through the middle of this week. Regardless of tropical cyclone formation, heavy rainfall is likely to continue over portions of southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, and western Honduras during the next few days. For additional information on the rainfall threat, see products from your national meteorological service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent.
Today marks the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, which will run until November 30. Long-term averages for the number of named storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes are 12, 6, and 3, respectively.
The list of names for 2020 is as follows:
Name and Pronunciation
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Arthur AR-thur
Bertha BUR-thuh
Cristobal krees-TOH-bahl
Dolly DAH-lee Omar
Edouard ed-DWARD
Fay fay
Gonzalo gohn-SAH-loh
Hanna HAN-uh
Isaias ees-ah-EE-ahs
Josephine JOH-seh-feen
Kyle KY-ull
Laura LOOR-ruh
Marco MAR-koe
Nana NA-na
OH-mar
Paulette pawl-LET
Rene re-NAY
Sally SAL-ee
Teddy TEHD-ee
Vicky VIH-kee
Two tropical storms, Arthur and Bertha, already formed this year in May. The next named storm that develops this season will be Cristobal.
This product, the Tropical Weather Outlook, briefly describes significant areas of disturbed weather and their potential for tropical cyclone formation during the next five days. The issuance times of this product are 2 AM, 8 AM, 2 AM, and 8 PM EDT. After the change to standard time in November, the issuance times are 1 AM, 7 AM, 1 PM, and 7 PM EST.
A Special Tropical Weather Outlook will be issued to provide updates, as necessary, in between the regularly scheduled issuances of the Tropical Weather Outlook. Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued under the same WMO and AWIPS headers as the regular Tropical Weather Outlooks.
A standard package of products, consisting of the tropical cyclone public advisory, the forecast/advisory, the cyclone discussion, and a wind speed probability product, is issued every six hours for all ongoing tropical cyclones. In addition, a special advisory package may be issued at any time to advise of significant unexpected changes or to modify watches or warnings.
The Tropical Cyclone Update is a brief statement to inform of significant changes in a tropical cyclone or to post or cancel watches or warnings. It is used in lieu of or to precede the issuance of a special advisory package. Tropical Cyclone Updates, which can be issued at any time, can be found under WMO header WTNT61-65 KNHC, and under AWIPS header MIATCUAT1-5.
All National Hurricane Center text and graphical products are available on the web at https://www.hurricanes.gov. You can also interact with NHC on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NWSNHC.
Notifications are available via Twitter when select National Hurricane Center products are issued. Information about our Atlantic Twitter feed (@NHC_Atlantic) is available at https://www.hurricanes.gov/twitter.shtml.
End Daily Weather Segment
Begin News Briefing
County Holds Press Conference on COVID-19 Situation
The Macon County Health Department held a press conference to disseminate information to local and regional news outlets. In attendance were: WLOS-TV (2 people), PLateua Daily News, The Highlander, Macon County News, Blue Ridge Public Radio, WFSC-AM/WNCC-FM, The Franklin Press, and Macon Media.
Here is the full video of the event.
The video and commentary thread on Facebook [LINK]
WLOS Livestream [LINK]
Two Americans Launch Into Space Aboard a SpaceX Dragon Capsule
SpaceX Demo-2 (also referred to as Crew Demo-2, and Dragon Crew Demo-2) is a crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which launched yesterday at 3:22pm. Demo-2 is the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since the final Space Shuttle mission (STS-135 [LINK]) in 2011, and also the first ever operated by a commercial provider. The mission, which launched spacecraft commander Douglas Hurley and joint-operations commander Robert Behnken to the International Space Station, is also the first two-person orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since STS-4 in 1982 [LINK]". The spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station at 10:29am.
Recap Video by NASA
SpaceX Ongoing Live Coverage Through Docking
SpaceX provided live coverage of the flight through the docking with the Internation Space Station later that morning.
Postflight News Conference
NASA has a live stream channel on Youtube that will also be providing live coverage of operations during this mission.
NASA Highlight Reel for May 31st
County Commissioners Hold Budget Work Session
The Macon County Board of Commissioners held a budget work session Tuesday. Video and supporting documents are on the website. [LINK]
End News Briefing Segment
Begin COVID-19 Update
Here are some numbers from the CDC, the NCDHHS, and the Johns Hopkins Dashboard. Macon Media prefers the Johns Hopkins Dashboard because the counts include those non-residents that are left out of the CDC and NCDHHS numbers.
The CDC website [LINK] reports 27,673 people in North Carolina are infected, 877 have died, and infections are widespread, the NCDHHS website [LINK] reports 28,589 confirmed cases from 416,289 targeted tests, and 649 hospitalized and 886 deaths in the state. The Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK] reports 28,785 people infected and 937 deaths (these include non-residents located in NC).
COVID-19 Data for Macon County from Coronaction. [LINK]
Detected 70
Recovered 17
Deceased 1
Actives 52
Data from Macon County Public Health [LINK]
Detected 85
Recovered 3
Deceased 1
Actives 81
Resources for Reliable Information about the Corona Virus (COVID-19) [LINK]
Dr John Campbell:
Air pollution and COVID-19
MedCram - Medical Lectures Explained CLEARLY
Coronavirus Pandemic Update 77: Remdesivir Update; COVID-19 in Mexico
COVID-19 Question / Answer with Dr. Seheult
Research
(repeat from the weekend)
Here are some links to several studies, research and clinical trials that have and are being conducted as part of humanity's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Don't be afraid to try to read some of these papers and be sure to use Google (or your favorite seach engine) to help you understand some words and concepts.
Going along with the theme of Dr John Campbell's video, here are some links to several studies, research, and clinical trials that have and are being conducted as part of humanity's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Don't be afraid to try to read some of these papers and be sure to use Google (or your favorite search engine) to help you understand some words and concepts.
ASU develops state’s first saliva-based COVID-19 test [LINK]
Forecasting the Spread of COVID-19 under Different Reopening Strategies [LINK]
Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 [LINK]
Visualizing the invisible: The effect of asymptomatic transmission on the outbreak dynamics of COVID-19 [LINK]
Small droplet aerosols in poorly ventilated spaces and SARS-CoV-2 transmission [LINK]
Population-scale testing can suppress the spread of COVID-19 [LINK]
Impact of Superspreaders on dissemination and mitigation of COVID-19 [LINK]
Comprehensive Transcriptomic Analysis of COVID-19 Blood, Lung, and Airway [LINK]
Pulmonary and cardiac pathology in African American patients with COVID-19: an autopsy series from New Orleans [LINK]
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case series [LINK]
The Spectrum of Cardiac Manifestations in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) - a Systematic Echocardiographic Study. [LINK]
Two thirds of people contacted through tracing did not fully cooperate, pilot scheme finds [LINK]
Death threats after a trial on chloroquine for COVID-19 [LINK]
Trained Immunity: a Tool for Reducing Susceptibility to and the Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Infection [LINK]
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Alteration of the Brain in a Patient With COVID-19 and Anosmia [LINK]
Famotidine, Histamine, and the Coronavirus [LINK]
Features of COVID-19 post-infectious cytokine release syndrome in children presenting to the emergency department [LINK]
Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 through recombination and strong purifying selection [LINK]
Efficacy and Safety of Ivermectin and Doxycycline in Combination or IVE Alone in Patients With COVID-19 Infection. [LINK]
Introductions and early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the New York City area [LINK]
Single-dose replicating RNA vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in nonhuman primates [LINK]
Modeling the thermal inactivation of viruses from the Coronaviridae family in suspensions or on surfaces with various relative humidities [LINK]
Treatment of COVID-19 Patients with Convalescent Plasma [LINK]
Reduction of secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in households by face mask use, disinfection and social distancing: a cohort study in Beijing, China [LINK]
Lessons Learned to Date on COVID-19 Hyperinflammatory Syndrome: Considerations for Interventions to Mitigate SARS-CoV-2 Viral Infection and Detrimental Hyperinflammation [LINK]
COVID-19 Testing, Epidemic Features, Hospital Outcomes, and Household Prevalence, New York State—March 2020 [LINK]
Reduced Vitamin K Status as A Potentially Modifiable Prognostic Risk Factor in COVID-19 [LINK]
Ethnic and socioeconomic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection: prospective cohort study using UK Biobank [LINK]
Report 25 - Response to COVID-19 in South Korea and implications for lifting stringent interventions [LINK]
Two anti-inflammatory drugs found that inhibit the replication of the COVID-19 virus [LINK]
Development and Utilization of a Rapid and Accurate Epidemic Investigation Support System for COVID-19 [LINK]
Study finds surge in hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine prescriptions during COVID-19 [LINK]
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