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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will gradually push offshore today. Temperatures rebound to above average this coming week, as another area of high pressure spreads over the region and lingers into midweek. A moist cold front will move through the forecast area from the west on Thursday, bringing increased chances for rain.
Saturday March 4th chilli cook off at the community building 2 to 4pm. $5 entry fee to come in and taste chilli and vote for your favorite. All proceeds go to helping a child go to gymnastics camp this summer with her team mates.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Calm winds increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Highs lands Plateau
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of trhe southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the south in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Calm winds becoming north 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southeast in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm by noon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows near freezing. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 6 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather Goodbye Big Flares, Hello Green Comet | Space Weather News: 26 January 2023
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• Damaging 2022 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
• Atlantic hurricane season ends with 14 named storms [AP News]
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
700 PM EST Wed Nov 30 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
This is the last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on May 15, 2023. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
No known appreciable smoke field will be crossing Macon County today or tonight.
PM2.5 AQI is 40 (MODERATE) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 40 (MODERATE)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
The reduced air quality due to a structure fire on the Highlands Plateau. [LINK] https://www.facebook.com/MaconMediaNews/posts/pfbid02VtpDs9QuhcKSnX8XBL92eBRKeuAQ1AhF2C94pDg4MZ3H7j1oa1w5mZrqRe1ave99l
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low (2.8 out of 12) today with Juniper and Elm being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (4.7 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for February 5th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 72°F in Franklin in 1890
Lowest Temperature -11°F in Highlands in 1917
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.22 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1960
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 4.0 inches in Highlands in 1929
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of February Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 79°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-28-1996
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
Record Weather Events for February 5th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 83°F in Wilmington, New Hanover County in 1957
Lowest Temperature -15°F in Laurel Springs, Ashe County in 1996
Greatest Rainfall 3.05 inches in Morehead City, Carteret County in 2016
Greatest Snowfall 20.1 inches in Lexington, Davidson County in 1905
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of February Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 88°F in New Bern, Craven County on 02-28-1962
Lowest Temperature -20°F in Brevard, Transylvania County on 02-17-1958
Greatest Rainfall 8.83 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 02-13-1966
Greatest Snowfall 24.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 02-12-1985
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Saturday March 4th Chilli cook off at the community building 2 to 4pm. $5 entry fee to come in and taste chilli and vote for your favorite. All proceeds go to helping a child go to gymnastics camp this summer with her team mates.
No events have been submitted for Macon Calendar.
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Local and State News
Brad Panovich talks downed Chinese balloon after apparent sightings across the Carolinas | WCNC Charlotte Weather IQ
Chinese Spy Balloon Crosses Macon County Before Being Shot Down Near the Coast
• US downs Chinese balloon, drawing a threat from China [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Officials in South Carolina warn public not to touch debris after U.S downs Chinese spy balloon [WTVD-TV (Durham, NC) ]
• Roll Call: Here's how WNC's members of Congress voted Jan. 27-Feb. 2 [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Advocates of ranked choice voting will discuss how it could work in NC. How to go. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• More North Carolinians died of opioid overdoses in 2022 than ever before. Advocates call for broader harm reduction strategies. [BPR]
• The Punisher and the Punished: A conversation with retired Force Recon Marine Corporal Adam Ranke [Mountain Philosopher]
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National and World News Roundup
• U.S. Shoots Down Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon, Recovery Under Way [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ (article archive)]
02-04-2023 Myrtle Beach, SC - Balloon Shot Down Part 2 | Live Storms Media
This May Be The Real Reason Why China Is Flying Spy Balloon Over US: Gordon Chang | Forbes Exclusive
US to look at debris of Chinese spy balloon for 'intelligence information' | Sky News Australia
• Biden brought down a Chinese spy balloon. But he hasn’t tanked bilateral ties [Politico]
• China condemns US ‘attack’ on surveillance balloon as ‘overreaction’ [The Hill]
• Yes, Chinese Spy Balloons Flew Over The U.S. When President Trump Was In Office Too [Forbes]
• Ban on marijuana users owning guns is unconstitutional, U.S. judge rules [Reuters]
• Anti-abortion group must pay $850,000 of Planned Parenthood’s legal fees after being fined $110k over noise volations [The Spokeman-Review (Spokane, WA) ]
• Brazil sinks rusting old aircraft carrier in the Atlantic [Reuters]
• Orlando performance venue faces losing liquor license after Christmas drag show [Click Orlando]
• Coldest wind chill ever recorded in continental US, say forecasters [BBC News]
• Residential care facility faces $10,000 fine after Iowa funeral director finds woman pronounced dead gasping for air in body bag [CNN]
• The 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook (July 2022) [Congressional Budget Office ] [PDF Download]
Washington Today (2-3-23): Sec Blinken postpones trip to China due to Chinese spy balloon over U.S. | C-SPAN RADIO
Washington Week full episode, February 3, 2023 | Washington Week PBS
America's Nuclear Missile Fields; Defending America's Satellites (From 2014) | 60 Minutes
Global National: Feb. 4, 2023 | What's next after US shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon?
Nightly News Full Broadcast (February 4th)
PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 04, 2022
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County:
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:14pm CET, 3 February 2023, there have been 100,941,827 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,097,246 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 January 2023, a total of 661,064,315 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 6:14pm CET, 3 February 2023, there have been 754,018,841 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,817,478 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 31 January 2023, a total of 13,168,935,724 vaccine doses have been administered.
Ep 123 Osterholm Update: Nowhere Land | CIDRAP
• Long-term high-dose immunoglobulin successfully treats Long COVID patients with pulmonary, neurologic, and cardiologic symptoms [Frontiers in Immunology]
• As many as 1 in 10 Coloradans may have been hit by long COVID, a report says [Colorado Public Radio]
• How quickly does COVID immunity fade? What scientists know [Nature]
• COVID vaccine, treatments could go to private market this summer, official says [Yahoo! News]
• ‘Died suddenly’ posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies [AP News]
• TWiV Special: One COVID vaccine for them all with Paul Offit [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 981: Tastes like chikungunya [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 980: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• ChatGPT Passes Google Coding Interview for Level 3 Engineer With $183K Salary [PC Magazine]
• Russia's Role in the Far-Right Truck Convoy: An analysis of Russian state media activity related to the 2022 Freedom Convoy [The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict,and WarfareVolume 5, Issue 3]
• Decaf coffee reduces caffeine withdrawal – even when you know it’s decaf [The Psychologist: The British Psychological Society]
• NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency’s hiring spree [Washington Times]
• Major leak reveals revolutionary new version of Microsoft Bing powered by ChatGPT-4 AI [Windows Central]
Evergreen Links
• Red Dead Online player bids farewell to Google Stadia save by releasing horse they named after their departed daughter [Games Radar]
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 69 - Twilight of the Æsir
• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
How Stoke Space's Unique Rocket Works // Exclusive Tour & Interview | Everyday Astronaut
The Level1 Show February 3 2023: United Simps Military | Level1Techs
Cloning Dodos is for the Birds - DTNS 4447 | Daily Tech News Show
elementary OS 7, Wine 8, openSUSE Codecs, Ubuntu and more Linux news! | Michael Tunnell
Astronauts Bob & Doug Become Heroes & NASA Goes Nuclear - Deep Space Updates - February 4th | Scott Manley
250 Tonnes to Orbit!?: SpaceX's New Expendable Starship Option | Marcus House
I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works. | Sabine Hossenfelder
A Closer Look at China's Epic Space Mission: Project 921 | Megaprojects
Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel | Lex Fridman Podcast #356
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 04 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for February 4th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 346 [Al Jazeera]
• LIVEBLOG: Day 346 of Russian aggression against Ukraine [TVP World]
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 346: Ukraine will fight to hold ‘fortress’ Bakhmut as long as it can – Zelenskyy [Euromaiden Press]
• China Aids Russia’s War in Ukraine, Trade Data Shows [Wall Street Journal]
• Ukraine updates: Scholz says tank agreement stops escalation [DW News]
• Russia putting 'more and more forces' into Donbas battle, says Zelensky [France 24]
• Ukraine power substation fire leaves Odesa’s grid on the brink [Al Jazeera]
How Ukraine Liberated Kherson: The 2022 Southern Counteroffensive | Warographics
Dozens of soldiers freed in Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap | Al Jazeera
What Ukraine needs to achieve in the coming months | DW News
EU's strong support for Ukraine - World Today | TVP World
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Ukraine ‘will burn’ if it strikes Crimea, ex-Russian president warns [Russia Today]
• Russians buy more than 50 tons of gold in 2022 [Pravda]
• Transfer of businessman’s assets to Kiev regime is "outright theft" — Russian embassy [TASS' Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
February 5th is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 329 days remain until the end of the year (330 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)
62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
789 – Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, marking the secession of Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state.
1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1649 – Charles Stuart, the son of King Charles I, is declared King Charles II of England and Scotland by the Scottish Parliament.
1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
1783 – In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1807 – HMS Blenheim and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1901 – J. P. Morgan forms $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller's iron mines and Andrew Carnegie's entire steel business.
1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
1933 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
1967 – Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.
1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
2019 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
2021 – Police riot in Mexico City as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist. Eleven police officers are arrested.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, February 05, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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