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GENERAL OUTLOOK
A weakening cold front will linger through the weekend, with upper level disturbances bringing occasional chances for precipitation. Widespread precip, including mountain snow is expected Saturday night into Sunday. Dry and warmer weather returns early next week before precipitation chances return by mid week.
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 Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the east in the afternoon. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
Rain. Lows around freezing. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Sunday
Snow, possibly mixed with rain, becoming all rain after 8am. Highs near 40. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of rain before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Isolated showers between 1pm and 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
A 50 percent chance of rain, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the north 10 to 15 mph in the morning shifting to come ut of the east in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
Snow likely, possibly mixed with rain before 7pm, then snow. Lows around 30. Winds out of the northeast 15 to 20 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Sunday
Snow before 1pm, then snow likely, possibly mixed with rain. Highs in the mid 30s. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of snow before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Isolated showers in the early afternoon. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the north 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph becoming east in the afternoon. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
Rain. Lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Sunday
Snow, possibly mixed with rain, becoming all rain after 8am. Highs near 40. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of rain before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 50. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
Rain, mainly after 7pm. Lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Sunday
Snow, possibly mixed with rain, becoming all rain after 8am. Highs in the mid-to-upper 30s. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of snow before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today. A winter weather event is probably over the region this wseekend.
Snow is expected to develop across much of the southern Appalachians from late Saturday through Sunday night, with the best potential Saturday night into Sunday morning. Significant accumulations are possible, especially across the northern mountains and at the higher elevations above about 3500 feet.
Here are some probabilistic forecasts from the National Weather Service. Each map is labeled. The first map is what the National Weather thinks we'll get. The purpose of these experimental probabilistic snowfall products is to provide customers and partners a range of snowfall possibilities, in complement to existing NWS deterministic snowfall graphics, to better communicate forecast uncertainties during winter weather events.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather Solar 5-Day Snapshot: 05 February 2023 | Space Weather News
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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 (GOOD) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 40 (GOOD)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium (5.6 out of 12) today with Juniper, Elm, and Alder being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.7 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for February 10th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 78°F in Highlands in 1932
Lowest Temperature -2°F in Franklin in 1995
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 3.26 inches in Franklin in 1945
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 4.0 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1980
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 10th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 82°F in Greensboro, Guilford County in 1965
Lowest Temperature -10°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1971
Greatest Rainfall 3.28 inches in Brevard, Transylvania County in 1946
Greatest Snowfall 15.0 inches in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County in 1948
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
Livestreeam Replay: 2023-2024 Macon County Budget Kickoff Meeting
Macon County started its annual budget process yesterday. The meeting started at 1pm and adjourned at 6:23pm. The above video is the raw livestream. An edited version with repaired audio and video will be posted sometime next week.
• Fast-track program designed to temper trooper shortage in North Carolina [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Duke Energy reports a loss, announces $300M in cost cuts, including layoffs [BPR]
• Sylva takes first look at 2023-24 budget [Sylva Herald and Ruralite ]
• More school safety funding to come, NC lawmakers say [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Everybody's Got a Story, Right? | #TeamLeebra [TeamLeebra Podcast Seaspn 1 Episode 18]
• 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
The Airline Industry’s Problem with Absolutely Ancient IT | Wendover Productions
• Mass Layoffs or Hiring Boom? What’s Actually Happening in the Jobs Market [Wall Street Journal]
• Pence is subpoenaed in special counsel probe of Jan. 6 [Politico]
NewsNation reporter released from jail after arrest | KTLA-TV (Los Angeles, CA)
• NewsNation reporter released from jail after arrest [News Nation]
• Nicaragua releases over 200 political prisoners and sends them to the US [CNN]
• Peru reports hundreds of sea lion deaths due to bird flu [CNN]
• Starship: SpaceX tests the most powerful ever rocket system [BBC News]
• Jan. 6 rioter with Confederate flag inside Capitol sentenced to 3 years [ABC News]
• The 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook (July 2022) [Congressional Budget Office ] [PDF Download]
Washington Today (2-9-23): Senators get classified briefing on Chinese spy balloon | C-SPAN RADIO
Global National: Feb. 9, 2023 | Turkey earthquake survivors living in tents struggle to stay warm
Nightly News Full Broadcast (February 9th)
PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 09, 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 6:27pm CET, 8 February 2023, there have been 101,211,478 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,100,421 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 January 2023, a total of 661,064,315 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 6:27pm CET, 8 February 2023, there have been 755,041,562 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,830,867 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 31 January 2023, a total of 13,168,935,724 vaccine doses have been administered.
Ep 124: Taking Long COVID Seriously | Osterholm Update: COVID-19
• CDC adds COVID shots to list of routine vaccines for kids and adults [CBS News]
• New one-and-done therapy can help curb severe COVID-19 infection: Canadian-led study [CTV News]
• 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
• SpaceX admits blocking Ukrainian troops from using satellite technology [CNN]
• Teenage social media addictions — what parents don’t know and can’t track [Deseret News]
• FCC approves Amazon’s satellite broadband plan over SpaceX’s objections [ARS TECHNICA]
• Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own. [Vox]
• Facebook Hit With $1 Million Fine Tied to User-Privacy Lawsuit [Bloomberg]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJqlpJ1Xymk&t=2145s
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
Booster 7 31-Engine Static Fire Test | SpaceX Boca Chica
The Level1 Show February 10 2023: Congrats! It's A Rat With Wings! | Level1Techs
Is Game Pass Worth It? - DTNS 4453 | Daily Tech News Show
China's Balloon: One Question NO ONE Is Asking! | Two Bit da Vinci
Google Embarrasses Themselves (A.I. War Is Heating Up) | ColdFusion
Linux Action News 279 | Jupiter Broadcasting
History Byzantium Vol 1-9 | Flash Point History
How the Ruthenians defended against the Mongols - Medieval History | Kings and Generals
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 09 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for February 9th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 352 [Al Jazeera]
• LIVEBLOG: Day 352 of Russian aggression against Ukraine [TVP World]
• RRusso-Ukrainian War. Day 351: “We have freedom. Give us wings to defend it.” – Zelenskyy [Euromaiden Press]
• https://archive.is/w7JQT [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ (article archive)]
• Zelenskyy optimistic Ukraine will get European fighter jets [DW News]
• Polish, Ukrainian presidents meet in Rzeszów [TVP World]
• LIVEBLOG: Russia escalates attacks in Ukraine, striking Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia [France 24]
• Ukraine war: Elon Musk's SpaceX firm bars Kyiv from using Starlink tech for drone control [BBC News]
Ukraine's President Zelensky asks EU leaders for fighter jets | BBC News
Ukraine Requests UK Jets, Russia Responds | Combat Footage Recap
Zelenskyy thanks EU leaders for supporting Ukraine | Al Jazeera
Big Russian offensive underway. Russians losing 1K soldiers daily - Rock Rachon | TVP World
Brave Move from West: Estonia preparing to stop Russian Navy in Baltic Sea | Divine Justice
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
RRussia is striking Ukraine with accurate devastating firepower | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Republicans push to end Ukraine aid [Russia Today]
• Ukraine Intervention: So Putin Walks into a Bar… See more at https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/155748-ukraine_intervention/ [Pravda]
• French president rules out fighter jet supplies to Ukraine in near future [TASS' Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
February 10th is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 324 days remain until the end of the year (325 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)
1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
1712 – Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.
1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.
1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1920 – About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1930 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.
1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 – The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 – Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1964 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1972 – Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
1984 – Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2004 – Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport.
2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
2016 – South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
2018 – Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.
2021 – The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, February 10, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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