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Friday, February 24, 2023

News and Weather Briefing for Friday, February 24, 2023



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National News Roundup
COVID-19 News and Updates
Science and Technology
On This Day
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GENERAL OUTLOOK

The warm upper level ridge breaks down on Friday as cool high pressure approaches from the north. Cool and damp weather is expected Saturday with a stalled front and wedge of high pressure. As the cool high pressure moves over the Atlantic, temperatures should rebound Sunday. A cold front moves through on Monday, followed by dry but still warm high pressure for the middle of next 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

A chance of rain between 1pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

A chance of showers before 7pm, then rain likely, mainly after 9pm. Cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the west before midnight. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Saturday

Rain, mainly before 3pm. Highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing snd shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Saturday Night

A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 3am. Cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming calm by midnight.

Sunday

A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly between 8am and 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s.

Sunday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s.
Highlands Plateau

Today

A chance of rain between 1pm and 3pm, then a chance of showers after 3pm. Increasing clouds, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph in the morning becoming light and variable in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers likely before 7pm, then rain, mainly after 7pm. Lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Saturday

Rain. Highs near 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Saturday Night

A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.

Sunday

A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly between 8am and 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 60s.

Sunday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

A chance of rain between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of showers after 4pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the morning becoming calm in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

A chance of showers before 7pm, then rain likely after 7pm. Cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Saturday

Rain, mainly before 3pm. Highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Saturday Night

A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.

Sunday

A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly between 8am and 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s.

Sunday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.


Nantahala Area

Today

A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

Rain likely, mainly after 10pm. Cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Calm winds increasing to come out of the east around 5 mph before midnight. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Saturday

Rain, mainly before 4pm. Highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday Night

A 40 percent chance of rain. Cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph.

Sunday

A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly between 7am and 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 60s.

Sunday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.


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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.



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 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-high range (9.3 out of 12) today with Alder and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (1.7 out of 12).



Record Weather Events for February 24th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 75°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1996
Lowest Temperature 3°F in Highlands in 1989
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.37 inches in Highlands in 1962
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.2 inches in Highlands in 2015

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 (also a state record)
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 24th in North Carolina

Highest Temperature 86°F in Williamston, Martin County in 1962
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1989
Greatest Rainfall 3.53 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1975
Greatest Snowfall 10.0 inches in Edenton, Chowan County in 1989
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

Chili Cook Off at the community building 2 to 4pm

$5 entry fee to come in and taste chili and vote for your favorite. All proceeds go to helping a child go to gymnastics camp this summer with her team mates. Contact sgors.sg@gmail.com for more information.



Contra Dance at the Library
6:30 - 9:00 p.m. in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room

Join an enthusiastic group of musicians and dancers every first Saturday of the month, with beginners’ lessons at 6:30. Suggested donation, $10 per person helps to pay the musicians and callers for their travel and expertise. Contra dances are hosted and organized by the Arts Council of Macon County.





No events have been submitted for Macon Calendar.
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Local and State News



• Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops [Electronic Frontier Foundation]

• NC House Speaker Tim Moore, Rep. David Wills not injured in car accident Thursday: Moore and Willis were not injured after their vehicle was hit multiple times on Thursday. [Raleigh News and Observer]

• Should NC schools ban critical race theory? NC lawmaker's bill would do just that [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• Gov. Cooper announces millions in clean water infrastructure funding for Jackson County [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• Sylva Selects New Town Commissioner [Smoky Mountain News]


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National and World News Roundup

• Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops [Electronic Frontier Foundation]

• Here Comes the 60-Year Career [ Wall Street Journal ]
• When could the U.S. default? Here are the latest projections [ Yahoo! Finance via AOL ]
• N. Korea warns continued 'U.S. hostility' will be considered 'declaration of war' [ Yonhap News Agency ]
• After death of girl, 12 more possibly detected with H5N1 bird flu in Cambodia [ Khmer Times ]
• US can’t keep up with China’s warship building, Navy Secretary says [ CNN ]
Biden, Russia's Putin deliver vastly different speeches | ABC News



• Powerful winter storm reaches SoCal, with LA region's 1st blizzard warning since 1989 [ KABC-TV (Los Angeles, CA) ]
• Strong earthquake strikes Tajikistan, near border with China [ Reuters ]
• Spectrum News 13 crew member, 9-year-old girl killed in Pine Hills shootings [ Spectrum News 13 (Orlando, FL) ]
• The 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook (July 2022) [Congressional Budget Office ] [PDF Download]

Washington Today (2-23-23): Transp. Sec. Buttigieg surveys toxic train derailment cleanup in Ohio | C-SPAN RADIO



Ukraine's fight against Russia forges new levels of national unity a year into war | PBS Newshour



Global National: Feb. 23, 2023 | China's potential role in Ukraine war sparks NATO concerns



Nightly News Full Broadcast (February 23rd)


PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 23, 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 4:24pm CET, 21 February 2023, there have been 101,752,396 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,106,783 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 10 February 2023, a total of 662,514,513 vaccine doses have been administered.

Globally, as of 4:24pm CET, 21 February 2023, there have been 757,264,511 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,850,594 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 19 February 2023, a total of 13,220,848,592 vaccine doses have been administered.

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• Assessing the impact of one million COVID-19 deaths in America: economic and life expectancy losses [ Nature: Scientific Reports ]

• Long Covid causing job losses and homelessness in Australia, inquiry hears [ The Guardian ]

• CIDRAP unveils roadmap for advancing better coronavirus vaccines [ CIDRAP ]

• TWiV 983: One flu vaccine for them all with Scott Hensley [Microbe TV]

• TWiV 982: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]




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Science and Technology News Roundup

• FOSS Weekly #23.08: Kernel 6.2 Raspberry Pi Debugger, 40 FOSS Android Apps and More [It's FOSS]

• Hertzsprung-Russell diagram: the most important graph in astrophysics [Big Think]

• Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops [Electronic Frontier Foundation]

• The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web [Evening Standard]

• Meta must pay $175M for patent-infringing livestreaming tech, judge says [ARS TECHNICA]

• Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing [ Quanta Magazine ]

• Z-Library returns, aims to avoid seizures by giving each user a secret URL [ARS TECHNICA]


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



Hardcore History: AddendumEP24 Manifesting the Muse with Rick | Dan Carlin



• 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

ISS Rescue Launch - Soyuz MS-23 | The Launch Pad



The Level1 Show February 24 2023: The Human Bing | Level1Techs



Prompt and Circumstance - DTNS 4463 | Daily Tech News Show



Does the Universe Rotate? - Ask a Spaceman! | Paul M. Sutter



Life, Hot Springs and the Water Paradox with Dr. David Deamer | Event Horizon



Bad Weather At Atlantic Ocean - Winter Season | JG Travels



Gwynne Shotwell Spotted at Starbase amid on-going Final Preparations for Starship Launch | SpaceXly



The Strange Possibilities of Wormholes | John Michael Godier



Highway Scale Stealth Camping | Steve Wallis



Are Space And Time Real? | PBS Space Time



How could anyone believe the moon is hollow? | Curious Droid





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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)



• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 23 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for February 23rd]

• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 365 [Al Jazeera]

• LIVEBLOG: Day 365 of Russian aggression against Ukraine [TVP World]

• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 365: Heavy shelling and fighting in Donbas [Euromaiden Press]


• Eight Ways the Russia-Ukraine War Changed the World [Wall Street Journal]

• How the U.S. Adopted a New Intelligence Playbook to Expose Russia’s War Plans [New York Times]

• UN tells Russia to leave Ukraine: How did countries vote? [Al Jazeera]

• OSCE delegates stage walkout during Russian address [DW News]

• Putin's plan to rebuild the Russian empire failed: Polish President Duda [TVP World]

• A year of Russia’s war in Ukraine: Your simple guide [Al Jazeera]

• Putin says Russia to deploy Sarmat nuclear missiles [Reuters via AOL]

What is the Russian Attack Plan - Russian Invasion of Ukraine | Kings and Generals



Behind the Belarus Side of the Ukraine Border: See How Troops Are Preparing for Attacks | WSJ



• The Conflict in Ukraine Offers Old—and New—Lessons in 21st-Century Warfare [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ (article archive)]

Putin Touts Russia's Nuclear Arsenal on Eve of Ukraine War Anniversary | Bloomberg Quicktake



Putin withdraws recognition of Moldovan sovereignty over Trans-Dniester region - Ivana Stradner | TVP World



UN member states vote for resolution calling on Russia to leave Ukraine | DW News



Reporting the Ukraine war from inside Russia | BBC News



I’m a war reporter, here’s what I’ve learnt from the frontline in Ukraine | The Sun



Live at 9am: UN General Assembly expected to vote on Ukraine war resolution | DW News




News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective

The Russians fall back and regroup OR they'll be Annihilated | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor



• Seymour Hersh explains why US blew up Nord Stream [Russia Today]

• General Romanenko: Russia to throw about 200,000 troops into the special operation zone [Pravda]

• UN General Assembly adopts anti-Russian resolution on Ukraine [TASS Russian News Agency]





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On This Day

February 24th is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 310 days remain until the end of the year (311 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)




484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.

1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.

1386 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.

1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.

1527 – Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague.

1538 – Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia.

1582 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.

1597 – The last battle of the Cudgel War was fought on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia.

1607 – L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.

1711 – Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, is premièred.

1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.

1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.

1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving its owner, Irish writer and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, destitute.

1821 – Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala.

1822 – The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.

1826 – The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.

1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.

1848 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.

1854 – A Penny Red with perforations becomes the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.

1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.

1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.

1875 – The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries.

1876 – The stage première of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania (Oslo), Norway.

1881 – China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.

1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence; the war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898.

1916 – The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.

1917 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

1918 – Estonian Declaration of Independence.

1920 – Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.

1920 – The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany

1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25.

1942 – An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".

1944 – Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese-occupied Burma.

1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.

1946 – Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.

1949 – The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

1967 – Cultural Revolution: Zhang Chunqiao announces the dissolution of the Shanghai People's Commune, replacing its local government with a revolutionary committee.

1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnamese forces led by Ngo Quang Truong recapture the citadel of Hué.

1971 – The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.

1976 – The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.

1978 – The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.

1981 – The 6.7 Ms Gulf of Corinth earthquake affected Central Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Twenty-two people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage totaled $812 million.

1983 – A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.

1984 – Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.

1989 – United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.

1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.

1996 – Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue are shot down in international waters by the Cuban Air Force.

1999 – China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.

2004 – The 6.3 Mw Al Hoceima earthquake strikes northern Morocco with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 628 people are killed, 926 are injured, and up to 15,000 are displaced.

2006 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.

2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.

2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.

2015 – A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.

2016 – Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, crashed, with 23 fatalities, in Solighopte, Myagdi District, Dhaulagiri Zone, while en route from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport.

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Published at 5:00am on Friday, February 24, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins


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