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OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will control the weather pattern over the weekend. Unsettled weather enters the area by early next week and continues through much of the week with a stalled boundary setting up shop over the region. Rain chances will be in store every day during the new work week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Light qinds out of the northwest increasing to come out of the 5 to 15 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the low 20s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Washington's Birthday
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60.
Monday Night
Showers. Low in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the south 3 to 6 mph.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Light and variable winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph by midevening.
Washington's Birthday
Showers likely, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 50. Chance of rain is 60%.
Monday Night
Showers. Low in the low-to-mid 40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Light winds out of the northwest in the morning increasing to 5 to 15 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Light winds out of the southeast wind.
Washington's Birthday
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Monday Night
Showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the northwest increasing to 5 to 15 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Light winds out of the southeast.
Washington's Birthday
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Monday Night
Showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
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Almanac
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 upper range of yellow due to smoke from several fires in the southeast.
Fire and Smoke Map
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (7.1 out of 12) today with Juniper, Elm, and Alder being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (6.2 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for February 19th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 72°F in Franklin in 1890
Lowest Temperature -6°F in Highlands in 2015
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.10 inches in Nantahala in 1940
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.0 inches in Franklin in 1979
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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Macon Calendar
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Local and State News
• Carolina Connector Easing Supply Chain Issues, Improving Economic Prospects [NC Governor]
• Conservation trusts protect additional lands [Smoky Mountain News]
• New NC maps sent to judges; plaintiffs offer alternatives [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Google lowered its salaries in North Carolina. Now workers are protesting. [The Washington Post]
• Remembering Forrest Jarrett: Madison County icon embodied the 'love everybody' mantra [Asheville Citizen Times via Yahoo! News]
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
President Biden Gives an Update on our Continued Efforts in Ukraine
• U.S. Warns of Imminent Russian Invasion of Ukraine With Tanks, Jet Fighters, Cyberattacks [Wall Street Journal]
• Russian Media Reports Fire at Gas Pipeline: Ukraine Update [Bloomberg News via Yahoo! News]
• Last piece of Putin’s puzzle slots into place: preparing Russians for war [Yahoo! News]
• Separatists in eastern Ukraine say vehicle blown up near their HQ [Jerusalem Post]
Nord Stream 2: The $11BN Megaproject That's Dividing Europe
• Congressman Jim Hagedorn of Minnesota dies at 59 [CBS News]
• MLB cancels spring games through March 4 due to lockout [AP News]
• Islamic State-linked jihadists kill at least 40 civilians in Mali amid turf war [The Guardian]
• FDA warns consumers not to use certain Family Dollar products in 6 states after discovering more than 1,000 dead rodents at plant [CBS News]
• Kim Potter sentenced to 2 years in Daunte Wright's death [CNN]
• GOP voters sue Ohio redistricting panel to force adoption of legislative maps [Courthouse News Service]
• Some White House documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago were marked classified, National Archives confirms [CNBC]
• Judge says Trump could be culpable for January 6 and says lawsuits against the former President can proceed [CNN]
• Conflicts to Watch in 2022 [Council on Foreign Relations]
• Trucker Protest: Day 22, 100-plus arrests, 21 vehicles towed; Protesters moved past Mackenzie/Rideau: police; Third protest leader, King, arrested [Ottawa Citizen]
Global National: Feb. 18, 2022 | Arrests pileup as police crackdown on lingering Ottawa occupiers
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - February 18th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode February 18th, 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 5:13pm CET, 10 February 2022, there have been 402,044,502 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,770,023 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 7 February 2022, a total of 10,095,615,243 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:13pm CET, 10 February 2022, there have been 76,448,067 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 902,189 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 4 February 2022, a total of 527,784,089 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Variant: 21L (Omicron) also known as BA.2[CoVariants]
• Metabolic rewiring and serotonin depletion in patients with postacute sequelae of COVID-19 [Allergy: The European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology]
• Trucker Protest: Day 22, 100-plus arrests, 21 vehicles towed; Protesters moved past Mackenzie/Rideau: police; Third protest leader, King, arrested [Ottawa Citizen]
• COVID Won’t End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking. [The Atlantic]
TWiV 868: COVID-19 clinical update #102 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #102, Daniel Griffin reviews children and COVID, effectiveness of maternal vaccination, vaccines for immunocompromised, primary care physicians and vaccination rates, booster safety among adults, placentitis, azithromycin, oral Nirmatrelvir, Omicron antibody evasion, EUA for bebtelovimab, IL-1 blocking agents, thromboprophylaxis, effectiveness of vaccines against long COVID, and risks of mental health outcomes. Show notes at [Microbe TV]
• COVID-19-related Smell and Taste Impairment with Widespread Diffusion of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• Efficacy of Ivermectin Treatment on Disease Progression Among Adults With Mild to Moderate COVID-19 and Comorbidities [JAMA Network]
• Effectiveness of ivermectin-based multidrug therapy in severely hypoxic, ambulatory COVID-19 patients [Future Medicine]
• Covid-19: Vaccinated people are less likely to get long covid, review finds [The BMJ]
• Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus - Global subsampling [Next Strain]
• Monitoring COVID-19
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part I [Reddit]
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Part II [Reddit]
[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]
• Variant: 21L (Omicron) also known as BA.2[CoVariants]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Clearview Plans Facial Recognition Database That Knows Every Person on Earth [Extreme Tech]
• DeepMind scientists say they trained an A.I. to control a nuclear fusion reactor [CNBC]
• Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform [New York Post]
• Astronomers discover massive radio galaxy 100 times larger than the Milky Way [Space]
• Fed approves rules banning its officials from trading stocks, bonds and also cryptocurrencies [CNBC]
• Intel delays 2023 server chip, says it needs to boost spending to catch competitors [CNBC]
• Startup Will Drill 12 Miles Into Earth’s Crust to Tap the Boundless Energy Below [Singularity Hub]
• Read exactly how Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard came together [The Verge]
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX to split its private stock 10-for-1 [CNBC]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
Fall of Civilizations Podcast: 14. Vijayanagara - The Last Emperors of South India
What Was The Earth Like 1 Billion Years Ago?
The Next Step...
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On This Day
February 18th is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 316 days remain until the end of the year (317 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)
197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan idols in the Roman Empire.
1594 – Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1649 – The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England.
1714 – Great Northern War: The battle of Napue between Sweden and Russia is fought in Isokyrö, Ostrobothnia.
1726 – The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
1836 – King William IV signs Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia.
1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
1915 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
1937 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
1942 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1948 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1953 – Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
1954 – Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1965 – Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.
1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
1989 – Flying Tiger Line flight 66 crashes into a hill near Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Malaysia, killing four.
2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2003 – An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2011 – The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
2012 – Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, February 19, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to the following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center. Back to Top
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