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OUTLOOK
Dry zonal flow across the region will support a gradual warming trend through Thursday. A backdoor cold front Thursday night will support a brief return to near normal temperatures Friday. A trough approaching from the west will support increasing cloud cover followed by showers returning on Monday and Tuesday of next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Thursday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Clear, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday Night
Clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the early evening becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 70. Light winds out of the northwest wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the northwest.
Thursday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Calm winds.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the southwest.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Calm winds.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected.
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Almanac
Air quality is in the extreme upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the extreme 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 medium-high range (9.4 out of 12) today with Alder and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (8.72 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 2nd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 78°F in Franklin in 1976
Lowest Temperature 3°F in Highlands in 19140
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.86 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2007
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 12.0 inches in Highlands in 1942
Record weather events for March in Macon County
Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 15, 1967
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on March 7, 1899
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.43 inches in Highlands on March 29, 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 13, 1993
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
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
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Local and State News
• Bear sanctuaries no more: NC Wildlife OKs hunting, critics plan to appeal decision [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Virtual academies could disappear across NC schools next year [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Coronavirus omicron updates: Here’s what to know in North Carolina on March 1 [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Cell phone technology keeps endangered Cherokee language a tap away [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Otto Fire department establishes a fundraiser to assist the family of an injured firefighter (Cheif Rholetter) on [GoFundMe]
• WARNING: NO TRAILERS OVER 30 FEET: NCDOT, Highway Patrol offer no solution on reoccurring Cullasaja Gorge issue [The Highlander]
Franklin Town Council - January 2022 Regular Meeting
Asheville Citizen-Times COVID-19 Tracker [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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Special Section: Russia Invades Ukraine (Day 7)
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
Day Seven • Ukrainian Resistance, Logistics Nightmares Plague Russian Invaders [US Department of DefenseE]
Ukraine Invasion Continues Day 7 (FNN Live)
• Russian Hit Squad Sent to Assassinate Zelensky ‘Eliminated,’ Ukrainian Official Says [Yahoo! News]
• Heart-wrenching stories show the importance of media coverage in Ukraine [Poynter]
• Biden vows to make Putin ‘pay a price’ for invading Ukraine [New York Times]
• Exclusive: Ukraine Pushes to Unplug Russia From the Internet [Rolling Stone]
• Ukraine credits Turkish drones with eviscerating Russian tanks and armor in their first use in a major conflict [Business Insider]
• Russia's 40-mile convoy has stalled on its way to Kyiv, a U.S. official says [NPR]
• Ukraine is winning the information war against Russia [CNBC]
• Jennifer Griffin keeps fact-checking her Fox News colleagues on Ukraine [Washington Post]
Additional News Sources
• Russia Launches invasion of Ukraine [BBC Liveblog]
https://www.kyivpost.com/
https://ukranews.com/en/news
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cx1m7zg0gzdt/ukraine
https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/
https://www.ukrinform.net/
https://www.cgtn.com/europe
NΞMICO NΞTWORK
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNFS1bhD94Qc5vSARGOo6w
EarthCam Live: Kyiv, Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cyQPN5xQtU
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine | LIVE | Situation Room | INDB | Russian Military Advancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8iFW7BRNA
Al Jazeera English | Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-upyPouRrB8
DW News livestream | Headline news from around the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KZGs1MtP4
LIVE MULTI-CAM: EXPLOSIONS NEAR KIEV - UKRAINE/RUSSIA/DONETSK/LUHANSK + TWITTER FEEDS/NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfpk4OFkXE
Putin announces 'special operation' in Donbass | SPECIAL COVERAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0I5eglJMRI
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National and World News Roundup
President Biden Delivers 2022 State of the Union & Republican Response
• Transcript and video [Macon Media]
• Biden vows to make Putin ‘pay a price’ for invading Ukraine [New York Times]
• Manchin sits with Republicans during State of the Union [Yahoo! News]
• Congress returns to normal-ish for Biden’s speech — with cheers, jeers and viral moments [POLITICO]
• Dialysis coverage disparities stoke passions at high court [Courthouse News Service]
• 3 men plead guilty in white supremacist terror plot to disrupt power grid, trigger race war [NBC News]
• The U.S. and 30 other nations are releasing oil from reserves to try to calm markets [NPR]
• Target raises its minimum wage to as much as $24 an hour [CBS News]
• Conflicts to Watch in 2022 [Council on Foreign Relations]
Ukraine's blue and yellow colors 'everywhere' as the world demonstrates solidarity
Global National: March 1, 2022 |Ukrainians rattled after Kharkiv missile strike as fighting rages on
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 1st, 2022
PBS NewsHour Full Episode March 1st, 2022
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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 5:37pm CET, 1 March 2022, there have been 435,626,514 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,952,215 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 February 2022, a total of 10,585,766,316 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:37pm CET, 1 March 2022, there have been 78,212,580 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 941,112 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 February 2022, a total of 537,567,013 vaccine doses have been administered.
• New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin [New York Times]
• A Kennedy’s Crusade Against Covid Vaccines Anguishes Family and Friends [New York Times]
• Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment and animal samples of the Huanan Seafood Market [Research Square (click "Full Text"]
• COVID-19 pandemic forces a nationwide reckoning for American churches on how to safely reopen [ABC News]
• Why do people die from COVID-19?[Science]
• 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
• Quantum Gravity Sensor Breakthrough Paves Way for Groundbreaking Map of World Under Earth’s Surface [SciTechDaily]
• A newfound quasicrystal formed in the first atomic bomb test [ScienceNews]
• Common Sense 323 – Gas Up the Cold War [Dan carlin's Common Sense Podcast]
• Teen Who Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet Is Now Chasing Russian Tycoons [Bloomberg]
• Exclusive: Ukraine Pushes to Unplug Russia From the Internet [Rolling Stone]
• Bitcoin miners brought in just over $1 billion in revenue during February [The Block]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history, current events and technology
Level1 News March 2 2022: Pay No Attention To The Rust Behind The Curtain
Hold the Mayo And Tracking - DTNS 4222
Woman Builds a Rotary Cell Phone (She HATES Texting!)
Rotary Cell Phone (Description and Build)
How Does The Sunshield Work on the James Webb Space Telescope Work? (w/ Dad) - Smarter Every Day 270
NEW!! Photon Thermal Drive!! Mars in 45 days! Jupiter in one year!
Footage of All the Apollo Launches!
The Ways Russia's Invasion Ukraine Will Affect Space Programs - Deep Space Updates Feb 27th | Scott Manley
SpaceX Starship Updates, 2 Starlink Missions, Cygnus and Roman Space Telescope on Falcon Heavy
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On This Day
March 2nd is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 304 days remain until the end of the year. It is the first day of March. It is also the first day of meteorological spring in Northern Hemisphere.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.
986 – Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king of West Francia after the death of his father, Lothaire.
1444 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
1458 – George of PodÄ›brady is chosen as the king of Bohemia.
1476 РBurgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuch̢tel.
1484 – The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
1498 – Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
1657 – The Great Fire of Meireki begins in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, causing more than 100,000 deaths before it exhausts itself three days later.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in and around the Savannah River by a small fleet of the Royal Navy in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
1791 – Claude Chappe demonstrates the first semaphore line near Paris.
1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
1807 – The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
1811 – Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.
1815 – Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy.
1836 – Texas Revolution: The Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico is adopted.
1855 – Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1859 – The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, begins.
1865 РEast Cape War: The V̦lkner Incident in New Zealand.
1867 – The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
1877 – Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean in Windsor.
1901 – United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
1901 – The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1917 – The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
1919 – The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
1932 – Finnish president P. E. Svinhufvud gave a radio speech, which four days later finally ended the Mäntsälä Rebellion and the far-right Lapua Movement that started it.
1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
1941 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
1943 – World War II: Allied aircraft defeat a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea.
1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
1955 – Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
1962 РIn Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'̩tat.
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
1965 – The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
1968 – Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.
1969 – In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1977 – Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
1978 – Czech VladimÃr Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
1989 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
1990 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
1991 – Battle at Rumaila oil field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1992 – Start of the war in Transnistria.
1992 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, all of which (except San Marino) were former Soviet republics, join the United Nations.
1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
2004 – War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
2012 – A tornado outbreak occurs over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.
2017 – The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson are officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia.
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, March 02, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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