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OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will be centered over the region today, then slide east off the East Coast by Wednesday. A low pressure system and associated cold front will bring abundant moisture back into the Thursday through Thursday night. Another high pressure system builds in for next weekend.
Increased Fire Danger
Relative humidity values will be dropping near 30% again this afternoon (Tuesday, Feb 15th) and winds will be picking up during the same time frame, so please use extra caution if you burn outdoors today.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Light winds out of the southeast.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Calm winds.
Thursday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 4pm. Highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Thursday Night
Showers, mainly before 2am. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows around 40. Chance of rain is 90%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Showers, mainly after 10am. The rain could be heavy at times. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Thursday Night
Showers, mainly before 3am. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows around 40. Chance of rain is 100%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Thursday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 4pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Thursday Night
Showers, mainly before 2am. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph by midmorning.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the south 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday
Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Highs near 60. Chance of rain is 80%.
Thursday Night
Showers, mainly before 2am. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Chance of rain is 90%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today (Monday, Feb 14th). While, as of 4am, the National Weather Service has not issued a Fire Danger Statement, Macon Media notes that conditions are dry and relative humidty values will be low this afternoon and winds will be picking up this afternoon. Contrast this to the potential for high winds and heavy rainfall for Thursday. More about that below.
Relative humidity values will be dropping near 30% again this afternoon (Tuesday, Feb 15th) and winds will be picking up during the same time frame, so please use extra caution if you burn outdoors today.
Thursday
Heavy rainfall and gusty winds may develop across the region on Thursday. Isolated flooding will be possible, especially in locations near the border between North Carolina, South Carolina, and northeast Georgia, and also along the upper reaches of the French Broad River.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the lower range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the lower upper range of yellow due to smoke from several fires in the southeast.
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (4.9 out of 12) today with Juniper, Elm, and Alder being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (4.7 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for February 15th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 76°F in Franklin in 1989
Lowest Temperature 0°F in Highlands in in 1943
Greatest One-Day Rain 1.96 inches in Highlands in 1893
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands in 1895
Record weather events for January in Macon County
Highest Temperature 79°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 02-28-1996
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on 02-13-1899
Greatest Rainfall 6.37 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 02-13-1966
Greatest Snowfall 15.0 inches in Highlands on 02-14-1912
All-time record weather events for Macon County
Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on Jul 29, 1952
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on Jan 21, 1985
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on Jul 29, 1879
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Mar 13, 1993
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Local and State News
• Former Asheville councilman: Time for city leaders to address homeless problem [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• NC Supreme Court had constitutional duty to strike down GOP maps, Democratic majority says in full opinion [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Court releases details of NC gerrymandering ruling (Harper v Hall). Read full opinion. [NC Appellate Court Opinion (PDF)]
Franklin Town Council - January 2022 Regular Meeting
Asheville Citizen-Times COVID-19 Tracker [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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National and World News Roundup
• Ukrainian president clarifies 'ironic' claim that Russia to attack on Wednesday [Jerusalem Post]
• Russian units near Ukraine moved into "attack positions," U.S. official says [CBS News]
• Today, at least 14 NATO, Swedish, and Ukrainian ISR aircraft flew sorties over Europe [Amelia AirHeart via Twitter]
• US Officials today said that they now saw Russian forces assembling in attack positions [DefTechPat on Twitter]
• Courthouse locked down and streets closed in Alabama city - over a Taco Bell order [Yahoo! News]
• Ugandan warlord urges court to overturn sentence for human rights abuses [Courthouse News Service]
• Tax firm Mazars fires Trump Organization as client, says former president’s financial statements are unreliable [CNBC]
• 13 arrests, guns seized — and a possible ‘conspiracy’ to commit murder: RCMP swoop in on Coutts, Alta. border protest [Toronto Star]
• Judge to dismiss Sarah Palin’s suit against The New York Times [Poynter]
• Conflicts to Watch in 2022 [Council on Foreign Relations]
Morning Invest: 48 Hours Until War? Russia and Ukraine on the brink
Global National: Feb. 14, 2022 | RCMP seize weapons at border blockade as Emergencies Act declared
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - February 14th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode February 14th, 2021
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Since it looks like we may be in for a new wave of infections, here is a section on COVID-19. It will include local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 18, 2021]
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
Globally, as of 5:13pm CET, 10 February 2022, there have been 402,044,502 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,770,023 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 7 February 2022, a total of 10,095,615,243 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:13pm CET, 10 February 2022, there have been 76,448,067 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 902,189 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 4 February 2022, a total of 527,784,089 vaccine doses have been administered.
• ‘Follow the science’: As Year 3 of the pandemic begins, a simple slogan becomes a political weapon [Washington Post]
• N.Y.C. fires 1,430 workers, less than 1 percent of city employees, over a vaccine mandate. [New York Times]
• ‘You will not believe what I’ve just found.’ Inside the ivermectin saga: a hacked password, mysterious websites and faulty data. [Market Watch]
• Trudeau gives banks power to freeze funds without court order in bid to choke off protest funding [Financial Post]
• CDC adds Japan and Israel to 'very high' COVID risk category, warns travelers to 'avoid' 130+ countries [USA TODAY]
• An Undiscovered Coronavirus? The Mystery of the ‘Russian Flu’ [New York Times]
• Monitoring COVID-19
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part I [Reddit]
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part II [Reddit]
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
[Outbreak.info]
• CDC Releases Emergency Guidance for Healthcare Facilities to Prepare for Potential Omicron Surge [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
• COVID-19 case rates by county in 2021 [AXIOS]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• 13 Google Alternatives: Best Search Engines To Use In 2022 [Foss Bytes]
• Jared Isaacman, who led the first all-private astronaut mission to orbit, has commissioned 3 more flights from SpaceX [Washington Post]
• Polaris Dawn Crew Members and Objectives[Polaris Program]
• title [SOURCE]
• 15 Little-Known Deep Web Sites You Might Actually Like [Make Use Of]
• Elon Musk, defending the value of space travel, presents SpaceX’s Starship as the ‘holy grail’ [CNBC]
• Coinbase’s bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad was so popular it crashed the app [The Verge]
• U.S. to provide $5 billion to help states build network of EV charging stations [NBC News]
• https://archive.fo/F5JVn [Bloomberg]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
Level1 News February 15 2022: "I Am Not A Grocer"
Osint Bunker Season 2 Episode 11
Jared Isaacman and SpaceX to perform first private spacewalk on Crew Dragon | Polaris Dawn Interview
Living Off the Land
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On This Day
February 15th is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 319 days remain until the end of the year (320 in leap years).
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
1002 – At an assembly at Pavia of Lombard nobles, Arduin of Ivrea is restored to his domains and crowned King of Italy.
1113 – Pope Paschal II issues Pie Postulatio Voluntatis, recognizing the Order of Hospitallers.
1214 – During the Anglo-French War (1213–1214), an English invasion force led by John, King of England, lands at La Rochelle in France.
1493 РWhile on board the Ni̱a, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1690 – Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
1764 – The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
1798 – The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier.
1835 – Serbia's Sretenje Constitution briefly comes into effect.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Floyd surrenders the following day.
1870 – Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, US, and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.
1879 – Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
1891 – Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing about 274 of the ship's roughly 354 crew. The disaster pushes the United States to declare war on Spain.
1899 – Czar Nicholas II issue a declaration known as the February Manifesto, which reduces the autonomy of the Grand Duchy of Finland, thus beginning the first period of oppression.
1903 – The first teddy bear goes on sale in Brooklyn, New York.
1909 – The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
1923 – Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
1933 – In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6.
1942 – World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
1944 – World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
1945 – World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.
1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1952 – King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
1961 – Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1971 – The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
1972 – José MarÃa Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
1982 – The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
1989 – Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
1991 – The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
1992 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
1992 – Air Transport International Flight 805 crashes in Swanton, Ohio, near Toledo Express Airport, killing all four people on board.
1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
1996 – Embassy of the United States, Athens is attacked by an antitank rocket, by Revolutionary Organization 17 November, whose first victim was Richard Welch in 1975, leading to the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million and 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
2010 – Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people.
2012 – Three hundred and sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
2021 – Sixty people drown and hundreds are missing after a boat sinks on the Congo River near the village of Longola Ekoti, Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, February 15, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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