OUTLOOK
Passing upper-level disturbances will produce greater than typical coverage of showers and thunderstorms today through Friday. A return to more typical isolated to scattered summertime thunderstorm activity is expected over the weekend as weak drying arrives from the west. Moisture will gradually return late in the weekend through the middle of next week to support a more active pattern once again.
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News Brief
The Governor has issued Executive Order #155 to keep North Carolina in a Phase II Pandemic Restriction for five more weeks. You can see the news briefing where he made the announcement and read the executive order for yourself in the COVID-19 Update published by Macon MEdia [LINK] http://thunderpigblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/covid-19-update-for-wednesday-august-5.html
Jackson County commissioners have voted 4-1 to keep the statue in place but to remove the Confederate flag at its base and replace it with a plaque that tells Jackson County's Civil War history. [LINK] https://www.facebook.com/smnews/posts/10158271072675310?__cft__[0]=AZXvUknaZMO4HyioVFzbp2ToaYw5947viT1dcz98WnxPPoQobJ-rMVy_kS3iLWIW4NGL9H990rEvagg7kF1d08nhPoMu63O6_LcMwntApJOdgkovUNjfx0VKIiClgP_KOD73G3K7y92FvunLHY9Zd3H3klezhGEUQ-qUM65FlqPF1g&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
Video of the entire meeting
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Today
Patchy fog in the morning. A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs ranging from the low-to-mid 70s in the higher elevations to the low-to-mid 80s in the higher elevations. Light and variable winds. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the 60s. Calm winds. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs ranging from the mid-70s in the higher elevations to the mid-80s in the lower elevations. Calm winds. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows ranging from the mid-50s in the higher elevations to the lower 60s in the lower elevations. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs ranging from the upper 70s in the higher elevations ti the upper 80s in the lower elevations.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the 60s.
Hazards
Isolated to scattered thunderstorms will be possible this afternoon. A storm or two may become strong to possibly severe with damaging winds the main threat from any severe storm.
Air Quality
Macon County, including the ridegtops, will be a the mid-to-upper range of green today.
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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 Thu Aug 6 2020
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A small low-pressure system located a few hundred miles southwest of Bermuda is producing disorganized showers and a few thunderstorms. This low is expected to drift west-southwestward during the next couple of days. Any development of this disturbance should be slow to occur, and dry air and increasing upper-level winds are expected to cause it to dissipate over the weekend.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent.
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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 128,161 people in North Carolina are infected, 2,010 have died, and infections are widespread, the NCDHHS website [LINK] reports 129,288 confirmed cases from 1,873,668 targeted tests, and 1,167 hospitalized and 2,050 deaths in the state. The Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK] reports 129,733 people infected and 2,085 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 yersterday afternoon and graph by Macon Media of data from May 30th to August 4th [LINK]
Please note there is a gap for Saturdays and Sundays starting two weekends ago since the health department will no longer be reporting numbers on those days.
464 Detected Cases (+4 in one day)
64 Active Positive (-6 in one day)
397 Recovered (+8 in one day)
3 Deaths (unchanged)
Testing Data for Macon County
4246 MCPH Tests (+28 in one day)
1427 Tests by Others (unchanged)
5673 Total Tests (+28 in one day)
236 Tests Pending Results (+1 in one day)
And here is the weekly Demographic Update from Macon County Public Health released yesterday. The next demographic update will be on Wednesday, August 12th.
Infographic from Johns Hopkins University [LINK]
Resources for Reliable Information about the Corona Virus (COVID-19) [LINK]
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Published at 4:00am Wednesday, August 06, 2020
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