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OUTLOOK
High pressure will control our weather for the better part of the week, interrupted by the passage of a weak, dry cold front Wednesday night or early Thursday. A warming trend is expected for the latter half the week. A stronger cold front and low pressure could affect our area over the weekend.
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General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Light and variable winds.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest wind 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds early increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the upper range of green. due to smoke from several fires in the southeast.
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (3.2 out of 12) today with Juniper and Elm being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.4 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for February 8th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 69°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1943
Lowest Temperature -17°F in Highlands in 1895
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.50 inches in Franklin in 1878
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 4.5 inches in Highlands in 1995
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
• Six people overdose on narcotics at historic Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC cops say [Charlotte Observer]
• WCU enrollment dips [Smoky Mountain News]
• Asheville or Trashville? Downtown business owners, residents tired of mess left by others [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Republicans to redraw voting maps following NC Supreme Court order [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC lawmakers will redraw maps, but haven’t ruled out an appeal to the highest court [Raleigh News and Observer]
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
• National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago [Stamford Advocate]
• 2nd guilty plea planned in alleged plot to kidnap Whitmer [AP News]
• Talks between Macron and Putin fail to produce Ukraine breakthrough [The Guardian]
• Ukraine prepares for war as Russian troops move closer to Ukraine border in Belarus [Yahoo! News]
• In 5-4 vote, justices reinstate Alabama voting map despite lower court’s ruling that it dilutes Black votes [SCOTUSblog]
• Conflicts to Watch in 2022 [Council on Foreign Relations]
Global National: Feb. 7, 2022 | Ottawa police take action, politicians seek end to trucker protests
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - February 7th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode February 7th, 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 6:08pm CET, 7 February 2022, there have been 394,381,395 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,735,179 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 7 February 2022, a total of 10,045,314,770 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:08pm CET, 7 February 2022, there have been 75,725,243 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 893,870 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 28 January 2022, a total of 523,213,327 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Myocarditis Risk 17 Times Higher for Unvaccinated Patients Ages 12-30 Who Get COVID-19 Than COVID-Vaccinated Patients [Epic Research]
Ep 89 Osterholm Update COVID-19: Understanding Immunity
• One Million Deaths: The Hole the Pandemic Made in U.S. Society [Wall Street Journal]
• Removing trucks could be almost 'impossible,' say heavy towing experts[CBC News]
• 3-Year-Old Reportedly Denied Heart Treatment Because Parents Were Unvaccinated [Newsweek]
• California will lift mask mandate for vaccinated residents in indoor public places next week [Los Angeles Times]
• Amazon Is Raising Base Salary Cap to $350,000 From $160,000 [Bloomberg]
• Oregon will lift indoor mask mandate, masking in schools by March 31 [KATU-TV (Portaland, OR)]
• Doctors warn ending school mask mandates will lead to rise in COVID cases as several states lift requirements [SOURCE]
• Two years after his death, the Chinese doctor who warned of the virus is remembered. [New York Times]
• Monitoring COVID-19
[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
• Amazon Is Raising Base Salary Cap to $350,000 From $160,000 [Bloomberg]
• Why Spotify Has Removed Dozens of Old Joe Rogan Podcasts [Make Use Of]
• Massachusetts high court expands social media privacy rights [Courthouse News Service]
• 'A New Era': Peter Thiel Steps Down From Meta's Board of Directors [Gizmodo]
• SHOP SAFE Will Stomp Out Online Sales of Used and Homemade Goods [Electronic Frontier Foundation]
• IRS will end use of facial recognition after widespread privacy concerns [The Verge]
• Analysis: Trump’s Truth Social app, self-proclaimed foe of Big Tech, needs Apple and Google to survive [Reuters]
• The Best Dark Web Websites You Won't Find on Google [Make Use Of]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history and technology
Level1 News February 8 2022: Crouching China, Sunken Airplane
hip Transfer Tube with Anti-Vortex Device Delivered | SpaceX Boca Chica
SpaceX Starship Presentation for 2022, Roberts Road Facility, and 3 Falcon 9 launches in 4 days
Amazing Launch Footage, Wayward Boats & Buzzing The Launch Tower - Deep Space Updates - Feb 6th 2022
How did SpaceX lose to Blue Origin on a NASA space station contract? Was this handled fairly?
Study Claims Exploding Comet Destroyed a Native American Culture...But Did It?
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On This Day
February 8th is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 326 days remain until the end of the year (327 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)
421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
1575 – Leiden University is founded,[3] and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1590 – Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice of Judaism of his sister and her children.
1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed.
1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, America, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1807 – After two days of bitter fighting, the Russians under Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon.
1817 – Las Heras completes his crossing of the Andes with an army to join San MartÃn and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1865 – Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1904 – Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1922 – United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House.
1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Republicans establish the Interprovincial Council of Santander, Palencia and Burgos in Cantabria.
1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1942 – World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.
1945 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1945 – World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
1946 – The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1946 – The People's Republic of Korea is dissolved in the North, establishing the communist-controlled Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.
1950 – Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
1955 – The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
1960 – The Hollywood Walk of Fame is established.
1962 – Charonne massacre: Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1963 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1965 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 – South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1981 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
1983 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1983 – Irish race horse Shergar is stolen by gunmen.
1986 РHinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-M̩gantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
1989 – Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport (Azores) killing all 144 passengers on board.
1993 – General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1993 – An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 and an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 collide in mid-air near Qods, Iran, killing all 133 people on board both aircraft.
1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
2005 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.
2010 – A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
2013 – A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
2014 – A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, February 8, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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