Weather Briefing for Sunday, February 28, 2021

OUTLOOK A warm front will lift northward across the region today. A cold front will approach the southern Appalachians from the northwest tonight and then cross the area on Monday. Dry high pressure will build over from the north as the high center moves from the Great Lakes to the Mid-Atlantic coast Monday night into Tuesday. Unsettled weather returns from the west Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Another low pressure system may affect...

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Weather Briefing for Saturday, February 27, 2021

OUTLOOK A relatively dry cold front crosses our region from the northwest late tonight and Thursday, then stall to our south setting up an active weather pattern through the weekend. Waves of low pressure will cross from west to east into the start of next week. Expect dry high pressure to build over our area later next week. ---BEGIN SPONSOR SEGMENT--- Weather Sponsor Adams Products, a Division of Oldcastle is underwriting...

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COVID-19 Briefing for 02-26-2021

National and State Briefing • Governor Cooper to Ease Pandemic Restrictions After Period of Improving Metrics [LINK] Local BriefingMacon County Public Health has been notified by NCDHHS that the county will be receiving 500 first doses per week for the next three weeks and has been approved for a "Special Event Allotment" of 1,170 doses which the health department will deliver between Feb 22nd and Feb 26th. To register to receive the...

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Macon County Board of Commissioners Special Called Meeting of February 26, 2021

The Macon County Board of Commissioners will be having a Special Called Meeting today at 2pm to consider postponing the Macon Middle School Renovation Project to evaluate alternative plans related to Macon Middle School/Macon Middle School Campus. Live video will be streamed via our Facebook Page and here. The live version will be replaced later with an edited version. video Roll Call(a record of elected critters and media outlets with representatives...

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Weather Briefing for Friday, February 26, 2021

OUTLOOK A relatively dry cold front crosses our region from the northwest late tonight and Thursday, then stall to our south setting up an active weather pattern through the weekend. Waves of low pressure will cross from west to east into the start of next week. Expect dry high pressure to build over our area later next week. ---BEGIN SPONSOR SEGMENT--- Weather Sponsor Adams Products, a Division of Oldcastle is underwriting...

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COVID-19 Briefing for 02-25-2021

National and State Briefing • Governor Cooper to Ease Pandemic Restrictions After Period of Improving Metrics [LINK] White House Press Briefing (2/25/21) NC Kids Digital Library sees 1 million digital book checkouts, a 60% increase, during pandemic [LINK]  NIH launches new initiative to study "Long COVID"  [LINK]  The Johnson and Johnson Vaccine at the FDA  [LINK]  DAY SPONSOR Macon Media is...

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Weather Briefing for Thursday, February 25, 2021

OUTLOOK A relatively dry cold front crosses our region from the northwest late tonight and Thursday, then stall to our south setting up an active weather pattern through the weekend. Waves of low pressure will cross from west to east into the start of next week. Expect dry high pressure to build over our area later next week. ---BEGIN SPONSOR SEGMENT--- Weather Sponsor Adams Products, a Division of Oldcastle is underwriting...

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COVID-19 Briefing for 02-24-2021

National and State Briefing • Governor Cooper to Ease Pandemic Restrictions After Period of Improving Metrics [LINK] Nearly 600,000 people in a large Israeli health care organization were followed after vaccination for infection, hospitalization, and severe COVID19. Estimated vaccine effectiveness in preventing death was 72% after the first dose, and hospitalization was reduced by 92%. [LINK] NIH launches new initiative to...

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