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GENERAL OUTLOOK
A strong low pressure system tracks across the area today bringing wintry precipitation to the mountain zones and portions of the North Carolina Foothills. High pressure returns early next week leading to drier conditions. Rain chances return middle to late next week as another frontal system tracks across the area.
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
Showers, mainly before 1pm. Patchy fog before 2pm. Highs in the lower 40s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog before 11pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the north 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Rain and snow showers before 1pm, then a chance of rain showers. Patchy fog. Highs in the mid 30s. Winds out of the east 15 to 20 mph in the morning decreasing and shifting to come out of the north 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog before 10pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Monday
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Showers, mainly before 1pm. Patchy fog before 3pm. Highs near 40. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog before 11pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Showers, mainly before 2pm. Patchy fog. Highs near 40. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers before 9pm. Patchy fog before 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northeast after midnight.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today. A winter weather event is probable over the region this weekend. A copy of the Winter Storm Severity Index is posted below to assist readers in planning.
A Winter Weather Storm will be in effect from 6pm tonight through 6pm Sunday night for elevations above 3500 feet. Those of us below 3500 feet will be under a Winter Weather Advisory and will likely only see a dusting to an inch or so of snow.
A mix of rain, freezing rain, smleet and snow is expected to start late tonight and continue through late Sunday afternoon. In Macon County, the snow accumulation will depend on altitude and when the cold temperatures arrive. The valley floors in the greater Franklin area are expected to receive anywhere between a trace amount of snow to an inch or so. The killsides, ridges and mountain tops will likely receive more, especially those areas above 3500 feet. The Highlands area could receive up to 3 to 5 inches in Highlands and more in the higher elevations. Maps from the National Weather Service of the expected accumulations is posted below the Winter Storm Watch.
Expected Amccumulation Map
Low End Amccumulation Map
High End Amccumulation Map
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather A Solar Polar Vortex and the X-Factor Returns | Space Weather News: 10 February 2023
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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 09 (GOOD) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 09 (GOOD)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (0.6 out of 12) today with Juniper, Elm, and Alder being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (5.2 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for February 12th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 72°F in Franklin in 1961
Lowest Temperature 0°F in Highlands in 1899
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 4.90 inches in Highlands in 1900
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 11.0 inches in Highlands in 1895
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 12th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 86°F in Belhaven, Beaufort County in 1925
Lowest Temperature -13°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1981
Greatest Rainfall 5.67 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2018
Greatest Snowfall 24.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1985
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)
Tuesday, February 21st Maiden's Chapel Church (located at 230 Maiden's Chapel Road) will host a pancake supper on Tuesday, February 21st from 5-7 p.m. Donations will be accepted for the church. 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
• Letter to the Editor: Did you purchase an Aetna CVS Health plan for 2023? [Macon Media]
• Study: AMC as housing not economically feasible [Macon County News and shopping Guide]
• 16% of all North Carolinians have long COVID. Here’s an updated guide to the condition. [Raleigh News and Observer]
• What’s Homelessness Really Like? [New York Times]
• Fire crews to continue fighting Wayne County salvage fire overnight; local crews relieved by neighboring fire departments. [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Roll Call: Here's how WNC's members of Congress voted Feb. 3-9 [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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National and World News Roundup
• Flying Object Shot Down Over Canada on Orders of Biden and Trudeau [Wall Street Journal]
U.S. fighter jet shot down unidentified object in northern Canada | NBC News
• U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities [Reuters]
Chinese satellite lasers recorded over Hawaii | KHON2 News
• U.S. blacklists 6 Chinese entities in response to alleged spy balloon incident [PBS Newshour]
• Turks blame government negligence for quake devastation [DW News]
• President Biden And Vice President Harris Welcome The Nation’s Governors To The White House [Public News DC]
• In Trump rape lawsuit, judge weighs ‘quid pro quo’ DNA offer [Courthouse News Service]
• Trump legal team hands over additional classified folder to Justice Dept. [Washington Post]
• 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
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Feb. 11, 2023 | Unidentified object in Canadian airspace shot down over Yukon
Nightly News Full Broadcast (February 11th)
PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 11, 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 5:35pm CET, 10 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 5:35pm CET, 10 February 2023, there have been 755,385,709 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,833,388 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 31 January 2023, a total of 13,168,935,724 vaccine doses have been administered.
• For Older Americans, the Pandemic Is Not Over [New York Times]
• Young people are more likely to die of heart attacks post-COVID, study finds. But why? [TODAY]
• As the pandemic ebbs, an influential COVID tracker shuts down [NPR]
• EXPLAINER: How Does COVID-19 Affect the Heart? [US News and World Report]
• 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
• Scientists Made a Mind-Bending Discovery About How AI Actually Works [VICE News]
• Russian spacecraft leaks coolant, station crew reported safe [AP News]
• ‘The Last of Us’ Gets What Freaks Us All Out the Most About Government [Politico]
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
SpaceX Starlink 72 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 12 February 2023 | SciNews
The Level1 Show February 10 2023: Congrats! It's A Rat With Wings! | Level1Techs
Apple: Hire Different - DTNS 4455 | Daily Tech News Show
Bouncing Bullets off Water in Ultra Slow Motion | The Slow Mo Guys
SpaceX Super Heavy 31 Engine Static Fire [Slo Mo 4K] | Everyday Astronaut
SpaceX Breaks New Ground with Epic Static Fire: But how powerful was it really? | Marcus House
Taiwan - Is a Chinese Invasion Inevitable? | Warographics
Evolution of British Tanks - Animated History | The Armchair Historian
Inside The Air Forces’s Flying Radar Fleet | CNBC
Ground Launch Small Diameter Bomb GBU39 HIMARS/MLRS - How it Works | AiTelly
No, Earth's Inner Core Did Not Stop Spinning, Here's What We Found Though | Antov Petrov
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 11 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for February 10th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 354 [Al Jazeera]
• LIVEBLOG: Day 354 of Russian aggression against Ukraine [TVP World]
• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 353: Ukrainian air defense destroys 61 of 106 Russian missiles [Euromaiden Press]
• Former top US general: Jets could seal quick Ukraine victory [DW News]
• Can EU-Russia relations be repaired post-Putin? [Al Jazeera]
• ‘We will be in danger if Russia wins’: Security concerns drive Poland’s support for Ukraine [France 24]
• U.S. President to visit Poland ahead of Ukraine war one-year anniversary [TVP World]
Dramatic scenes on the Ukrainian steppe - Military Mind | TVP World
Both Russia and Ukraine Prepare Offensives | Combat Footage Recap
Is this the start of a new Russian offensive? | DW News
Travelogue: From Brussels to Kyiv, European diplomacy stands the test of war | FRANCE 24 English
Russia's major offensive, the loss of Starlink and training Ukrainian soldiers - Ukraine: The Latest | The Telegraph
Russia plans to cut oil production in response to Western price cap | ABC News
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Russia explains stance on peace talks with Ukraine [Russia Today]
• Ukraine Intervention: Tread Lightly the Sleeping Colossus [Pravda]
• Russian forces successfully advance near Kremennaya — LPR officer [TASS' Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
February 12th is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 322 days remain until the end of the year (323 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)
1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in the Battle of the Herrings.
1502 – Isabella I issues an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.
1502 – Vasco da Gama with 15 ships and 800 men sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.
1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
1733 – Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah.
1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1817 – An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops at the Battle of Chacabuco.
1818 – Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1832 – Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
1855 – Michigan State University is established.
1889 – Antonín Dvořák's Jakobín is premiered at National Theater in Prague
1894 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1909 – New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
1912 – The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1915 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1921 – Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
1924 – George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1947 – The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
1947 – Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
1961 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1963 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
1965 – Malcolm X visits Smethwick in Birmingham following the racially-charged 1964 United Kingdom general election.
1968 – Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1983 – One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
1988 – Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage.
1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
1992 – The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1993 – Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
1994 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
2002 – An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
2004 – The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
2016 – Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
2019 – The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa agreement, settling a long-standing naming dispute with Greece.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, February 12, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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