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Monday, August 30, 2021

News and Weather Briefing for Monday, August 30, 2021



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OUTLOOK

An upper ridge with drying high pressure will remain dominant over the region through Monday. A cold front will combine with moisture from the remnants of tropical cyclone Ida to increase precipitation chances across the area during mid-week, with heavy rainfall possible across portions of the mountains. Drying returns late in the week. Temperatures will remain above normal through Monday, then drop to around or slightly below normal from Wednesday through the end of the week.

Pigeon River Flood of 2021 Coverage

NC governor seeking disaster declaration for Fred’s flooding [Raleigh News and Observer]


• Smoky Mountain News [The Pigeon River Flood of 2021] • The Mountaineer [Flood Coverage]


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National Weather Map for Today



General forecast through Wednesday Night


Franklin area

Today

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds.

Tonight

A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers after 3am. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 20%.

Tuesday

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 1pm, then showers likely between 1pm and 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. The chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then showers between 1am and 5am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 5am. Low in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. The chance of rain is 80%.

Wednesday

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. The chance of rain is 80%.

Wednesday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers before 2am. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.




Highlands Plateau

Today

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm by noon.

Tonight

A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a slight chance of showers after 4am. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. The chance of rain is 20%.

Tuesday

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2pm, then showers likely between 2pm and 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. The chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

Tuesday Night

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 60. Winds out of the southwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. The chance of rain is 80%.

Wednesday

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 10am, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 10am and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Highs near 70. The chance of rain is 80%.

Wednesday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers before 2am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.




Otto area

Today

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds.

Tonight

A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a slight chance of showers after 3am. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 20%.

Tuesday

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2pm, then showers likely between 2pm and 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. The chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then showers between 1am and 5am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 5am. Lows in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. The chance of rain is 80%.

Wednesday

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 11am, then showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Highs in the mid-70s. The chance of rain is 80%.

Wednesday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers before 2am. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.




Nantahala area

Today

A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tuesday

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11am, then showers likely between 11am and 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. The chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Low in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. The chance of rain is 90%.

Wednesday

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 2pm, then showers likely, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Highs near 70. The chance of rain is 80%.

Wednesday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers before 1am. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.


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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Hazardous weather is not expected today.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida are forecast to pass west through north of the southern Appalachians Tuesday through Wednesday. While current indications are that the greatest inland impacts will be across the Tennessee Valley, some impacts are expected across portions of our area. Heavy rainfall causing localized flooding, gusty winds, and isolated severe storms are possible, mainly from Tuesday night into Wednesday. Interests across the area should continue to monitor the forecast over the next couple of days as this situation evolves.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK




Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Aug 30 2021

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

The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Ida, located inland over southeastern Louisiana, on Tropical Depression Ten, located over the central tropical Atlantic, and has issued the last advisory on Post-Tropical Cyclone Julian, moving rapidly northeastward over the central subtropical Atlantic.

1. Showers and thunderstorms have mostly diminished with the broad area of low pressure located east of the Delmarva Peninsula. Upper-level winds are expected to increase over the low tomorrow, and its prospects for further development have decreased as it drifts slowly away from the east coast of the United States.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...near 0 percent.

2. A tropical wave is expected to emerge off the west coast of Africa later today. Environmental conditions appear conducive for the development of a low pressure area once the wave moves offshore, and a tropical depression is likely to form by the middle or latter part of the week while the system moves west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph over the eastern tropical Atlantic.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent.

3. A broad area of low pressure is expected to form in the southern Caribbean Sea over the next several days. Environmental conditions appear to be favorable for some slow development by the end of the week, as long as the system remains over water. This system is expected to move gradually west-northwestward or northwestward at 5 to 10 mph over the western Caribbean Sea close to the east coast of Central America.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.



Hurricane Ida Discussion Number 16
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021
1000 PM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021

Although Ida has been inland over southeastern Louisiana for several hours, it is still a very well organized hurricane. Doppler radar images indicate that the hurricane continues to have a well-defined eye, though the eyewall has become a bit ragged on the southwest side. Beyond the inner core, rain bands remain well established, especially on the system's east side. Earlier this evening, there were reports of extreme wind gusts over 120 kt along the coast of southeastern Louisiana. Based on Doppler radar velocity data over the past hour or two, the initial intensity is estimated to be 90 kt.

As Ida continues inland, rapid weakening is expected due to a combination of land interaction and an increase in wind shear. However, damaging winds, especially in gusts, are expected to spread further inland over southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi through Monday morning. To account for this, the gust factor in the Forecast/Advisory has been adjusted accordingly. Ida is likely to weaken to a tropical storm by Monday morning and a tropical depression by Monday night. Some slight restrengthening as an extratropical storm is possible when Ida moves over the western Atlantic in 4 days or so. In addition, heavy rains will spread northward and then northeastward along the forecast track.

Ida is expected to turn northward by early Monday as it moves in the flow on the western side of a subtropical ridge. A faster motion to the northeast is expected by Tuesday as a mid- to upper-level trough approaches the system, with that motion continuing through much of the remainder of the week. The NHC track forecast is a little to the south or right of the previous one to come into better agreement with the latest models.

Key Messages:

1. Life-threatening storm surge inundation will continue through tonight along portions of the coast between Burns Point, Louisiana, to Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Overtopping of local levees outside of the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System is possible where local inundation values may be higher.

2. Wind damage will occur near the core of Ida as it continues inland over southeastern Louisiana during the next few hours. Damaging winds, especially in gusts, will spread inland near the track of Ida's center into southwestern Mississippi through early Monday. These winds will likely lead to widespread tree damage and power outages.

3. Ida will continue to produce heavy rainfall tonight through Monday across southeast Louisiana, coastal Mississippi, and southwestern Alabama, resulting in considerable to life-threatening flash and urban flooding and significant riverine flooding impacts. As Ida moves farther inland, considerable flooding impacts are possible across portions of the Lower Mississippi Valley, Tennessee Valley, Upper Ohio Valley, Central Appalachians, and Mid-Atlantic through Wednesday.



FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS

INIT 30/0300Z 30.3N 90.7W 90 KT 105 MPH...INLAND
12H 30/1200Z 31.5N 90.8W 50 KT 60 MPH...INLAND
24H 31/0000Z 33.0N 90.1W 30 KT 35 MPH...INLAND
36H 31/1200Z 34.6N 88.5W 25 KT 30 MPH...INLAND
48H 01/0000Z 36.1N 85.9W 25 KT 30 MPH...POST-TROP/INLAND
60H 01/1200Z 37.5N 82.5W 25 KT 30 MPH...POST-TROP/INLAND
72H 02/0000Z 38.9N 78.8W 30 KT 35 MPH...POST-TROP/EXTRATROP
96H 03/0000Z 40.0N 72.5W 35 KT 40 MPH...POST-TROP/EXTRATROP
120H 04/0000Z 40.7N 67.9W 35 KT 40 MPH...POST-TROP/EXTRATROP


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Almanac

Air Quality




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 range of yellow.

Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)

Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (9.2 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (5.6 out of 12).


Weather Extremes for Macon County on August 28th


Highest Temperature 92°F in Franklin in 1948
Lowest Temperature 41°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1968
Greatest Rainfall 7.76 inches in Highlands in 1940
Greatest Snowfall (No snowfall recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)


August Weather Extremes for Macon County

Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin on 08-09-1980 Lowest Temperature 40°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 08-29-1968 Greatest Rainfall 9.68 inches in Highlands on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall no measurable snowfall has been recorded since records started being kept in 1873

Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of August
Data available from 1870 to 2020

Highest Temperature 110°F Fayetteville, Cumberland County 08-21-1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F Banner Elk, Avery County 08-23-1930
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 13.08 in Idlewild, Ashe County 08-14-1930

Monthly Averages for North Carolina

Warmest Weather Station 79.7°F Wilmington, New Hanover County
Coldest Weather Station 59.6°F Mount Mitchell, Yancey County
Wettest Weather Station 7.74 in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County
Driest Weather Station 3.12 in Lexington, Davidson County



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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)


IMAGE A TASTE OF TUSCANY

A Taste of Tuscany
September 11, 2021


The Zonta Club is proud to announce its upcoming fundraising event to aid the Franklin Fire Department’s infant car seat program and the Special Liberty Project. Now headquartered in Macon County, the Special Liberty Project is a non-profit organization serving the entire veteran family, focusing on Gold Star families, spouses of suicide victims and healing veterans.

The nature-based, therapeutic programs offered include fun, educational activities for children with Veteran Mentors, retreats and support groups for Gold Star families and family members of suicide victims, as well as peer-supported outdoor pursuits to help veterans return to civilian life.

The Taste of Tuscany event will be held on September 11 at 5 p.m. at 757 Harrison Avenue in Franklin and will honor our first responders. It will feature an open air wine tasting of Slanted Window wines from SenAmore Vineyards in Tellico, accompanied by food and music. There will be a live auction, as well as a silent auction featuring artwork and designer goods. Slanted Window wines will be available for purchase. A limited number of tickets are still available at $100 per person, to include a wine tasting flight and commemorative wine glass. VIP tickets are available for $150 that feature an exclusive evening with the vintner and more. Tables of eight, including two VIP tickets, may be reserved.

For more information visit the Zonta Franklin NC Facebook page or their website, zontafranklinnc.org


Encastic Painting Classes

The Macon County Art Association (a not for profit member organization) is offering classes in encastic painting on Specified Fridays from 10AM-12PM at the Uptown Gallery 30 E Main St Franklin NC. Specific class dates are Friday July 9 and 23, August 3 and 27, September 3 and 17, October 29.

For more information contact the instructor, Karen Smith, at karen@programservices.org


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National News Roundup

Biden attends dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base for those killed in Afghanistan



Colonial Pipeline temporarily shuts down part of its gas lines due to Ida [WNCT-TV ]

Rockets target Kabul airport as US forces rush to complete Afghan pullout • FRANCE 24 English



U.S. Capitol Police Tell Federal Court January 6 Disturbance Videos Are Not Public Records [Judicial Watch]

Joint Statement on Afghanistan Evacuation Travel Assurances[US Dept of State]

Ed Asner, the Iconic Lou Grant on Two Acclaimed TV Series, Dies at 91 [The Hollywood Reporter]

NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - August 29th, 2021



PBS NewsHour full episode, August 29th, 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: [August 27, 2021]




New York Times [Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker]

New COVID variant detected in South Africa, most mutated variant so far [The Jerusalem Post]

The continuous evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa: a new lineage with rapid accumulation of mutations of concern and global detection [MedRxiv]

Vaccinations Against COVID-19 May Have Averted Up To 140,000 Deaths In The United States [Health Affairs]

After 3-week COVID-19 battle, Daytona Beach talk radio host Marc Bernier dies [The Daytona Beach News-Journal]

Texas anti-mask movement leader dies of COVID-19 [The Hill]

'Constantly looking over my shoulder': School board members quitting across U.S. as meetings get hostile [WBIR-TV ]

Dr John Campbell: Delta, double hospital risk



Ep 66 Osterholm Update COVID 19: Thank You, Dr Jena

In this episode, Dr. Osterholm and host Chris Dall discuss the news of FDA granting full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, updates on booster doses and the rationale being considered, and the need for updated guidance as schools reopen.



BNT162b2 vaccine booster dose protection: A nationwide study from Israel [Israeli Government]

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Vaccinated Democratic Counties Are Leading the Economic Recovery [Bloomberg Businessweek]



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On This Day

August 30th is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 123 days remain until the end of the year.



Historical Events

(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)


AD 70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.
1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1594 – King James of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry.
1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1813 – First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1835 – Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
1917 – Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 – Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1936 – The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1941 – The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
1945 – The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1959 – South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.
1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1983 – Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1992 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
1995 – Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1998 – Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
2002 РRico Linhas A̩reas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
2008 – A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
2014 – Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.




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