OUTLOOK
Daily showers and thunderstorms will steadily become more numerous as the week progresses. High temperatures of a couple degrees above normal early in the week will become near to below normal by the end of the week under considerable cloud cover.
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News Brief
A fourth Maconian has died due to COVID-19 and the number of detected cases has increased to 480 (an increase of ten since Friday) and the number of active cases is 63 (an increase of two since Friday). [LINK]
Macon County to Hold Community Testing in Franklin on Thursday, August 13th.
Macon County Emergency Management and Macon County Public Health will be hosting a COVID-19 testing
clinic for the community in Franklin on August 13th, 2020. The clinic will be held at Macon Middle School from
8AM to 11AM. Persons may get a COVID-19 test regardless of their ability to pay and do not need to schedule
an appointment.
WHAT: COVID-19 Testing Clinic
WHEN: August 13th, 2020, 8AM until 11 AM
WHERE: Macon Middle School at 1345 Wells Grove Road
For those who would like to receive a COVID-19 test, you are asked to fill out your paperwork ahead of time, which is available at the following link: https://bit.ly/MaconCoCOVID. You are also asked to bring your insurance card, if you have insurance. There is no cost for a COVID-19 test, with or without insurance.
The Governor has issued Executive Order #155 to keep North Carolina in a Phase II Pandemic Restriction for five more weeks. This takes us to September 11th. 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]
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Today
Patchy for in the morning. A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs ranging from the mid-70s in the higher elevations to the mid-80s in the lower elevations. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 1am. A chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the 60s. Calm winds. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday
Patchy fog in the morning. A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs ranging from the mid-70s in the higher elevations to the mid-80s in the higher elevations. Calm winds. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the 60s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs ranging from the low-to-mid 70s in the higher elevations to the low-to-mid 80s in the lower elevations. Calm winds. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Thursday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the 60s. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today. For the rest of the week, thunderstorm coverage is expected to increase.
Air Quality
Macon County, including the ridgetops, will be in the 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 Tue Aug 11 2020
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Thunderstorm activity associated with a large low pressure system located more than 800 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands has increased and become a little better organized over the past several hours. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for development to occur, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the next day or so while the disturbance moves westward to west-northwestward at around 15 mph across the tropical Atlantic. Conditions are forecast to become less conducive for development by the end of the week.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent.
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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.
CDC [LINK]
136,218 Detected Infections
2,168 Reported Deaths
NCDHHS [LINK]
136,218 Detected Infections
2,001,919 Total Tests
1,111 Reported Current Hospitalizations
2,172 Reported Deaths
Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK]
137,562 Detected Infections
2,199 Reported Deaths
North Carolina Coronavirus Map and Case Count [LINK]
Data from Macon County Public Health as of Monday afternoon and graph by Macon Media of data from May 30th to August 10th [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.
480 Detected Cases (+10 since Friday)
63 Active Positive (+2 since Friday)
413 Recovered (+7 since Friday)
4 Death (+1 since Friday)
Testing Data for Macon County
4344 MCPH Tests (+38 since Friday)
1548 Tests by Others (unchanged since Friday)
5892 Total Tests (+38 since Friday)
249 Tests Pending Results (-42 since Friday)
And here is the weekly Demographic Update from Macon County Public Health released on Wednesday, August 5th. 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 5:15am Tuesday, August 11, 2020
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