Daily Weather Briefing for Monday, July 13, 2020

OUTLOOK

A weak cold front will cross the area today. A hot and increasingly humid air mass moves in for the rest of the week with chances for showers and thunderstorms gradually increasing by the weekend.

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Most Recent Local Government Meetings

The Franklin Town Council met on July 6th. [LINK]

The Macon County Board of Commissioners met on June 2nd. [LINK]

The Franklin Town Council met on June 1st. Members of the public and local media outlets were allowed in the town hall. [LINK]



General Forecast Through Wednesday Night


Today

Widespread dense fog in the morning. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs ranging from the upper 70s in the higher elevations to the upper 80s in the lower elevations. Light winds out of the northwest.

Tonight

Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the 60s. Calm winds.

Tuesday

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog in the morning. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs ranging from the upper 70s in the higher elevations to the upper 80s in the lower elevations. Calm winds.

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the 60s. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Mostly sunny, with highs ranging from near 80 in the higher elevations to near 90 in the lower elevations.

Wednesday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows ranging from the lower 60s in the higher elevations tot he upper 60s in the lower elevations.


Hazards

Isolated thunderstorms are expected this afternoon. Cloud-to-ground lightning, gusty winds, and brief heavy rainfall can be expected with any storm.


Air Quality



Air quality should be in the upper range of green today for the county.

A shortwave and attendant vort max will swing across the areas sometime during the morning into the afternoon, and could be the catalyst for more widespread afternoon showers and storms, especially in the Sandhills and Coastal Plain. Ozone levels will be highly dependent upon the location and coverage of showers and storms, but with the expected coverage likely to be higher in the east, will continue to project Code Yellow ozone only in the Charlotte region -- where it is at least possible that shower and thunderstorm activity stays east of -- and Code Green range elsewhere. Particle pollution levels are expected to continue to remain predominantly in the Code Green range.

GSP Radar Down for Scheduled Maintenence Until July 15th

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
101 PM EDT TUE JUL 7 2020

...GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG RADAR WILL BE DOWN UNTIL JULY 15...

BEGINNING TUESDAY, JULY 7, THE KGSP WSR-88D RADAR OPERATED BY THE NOAA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREER, SC, WILL BE DOWN FOR APPROXIMATELY SEVEN DAYS FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THE GENERATOR, FUEL TANKS, AND ACCOMPANYING COMPONENTS. THIS ACTIVITY IS IMPORTANT TO SUPPORT THE RADAR'S OPERATION DURING PERIODS OF COMMERCIAL POWER OUTAGES, SPECIFICALLY WHEN HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS PRESENT.

DURING THE DOWNTIME, ADJACENT RADARS CAN BE USED FOR RADAR INFORMATION. FOR DIRECT ACCESS TO ANY OF THESE SURROUNDING RADARS, GO TO THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTPS://RADAR.WEATHER.GOV/INDEX.HTM

THE RADAR IS SCHEDULED TO RETURN TO SERVICE ON JULY 15.





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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 Jul 13 2020

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.


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Macon Media posted a COVID-19 update yesterday afternoon. [LINK] https://thunderpigblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-19-update-for-sunday-july-12-2020.html

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 83,793 people in North Carolina are infected, 1,499 have died, and infections are widespread, the NCDHHS website [LINK] reports 85,701 confirmed cases from 1,199,575 targeted tests, and 1,070 hospitalized and 1,5039 deaths in the state. The Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK] reports 85,771 people infected and 1,522 deaths.

North Carolina Coronavirus Map and Case Count [LINK] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/north-carolina-coronavirus-cases.html

Data from Macon County Public Health as of July 11th and graph by Macon Media of data from May 30th to July 12th [LINK]





329 Detected Cases (+4 in one day)
117 Active Positive (+4 in one day)
211 Recovered (+15 in one day)
1 Death (unchanged)

Testing Data for Macon County

3403 MCPH Tests (unchanged)
933 Tests by Others (unchanged)
4198 Total Tests unchanged)
365 Tests Pending Results (-48 in one day)




Resources for Reliable Information about the Corona Virus (COVID-19) [LINK]



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Published at 5:15am Monday, July 13, 2020