Scattered thunderstorms will affect some of the area today,
with relatively mild conditions. Temperatures over the weekend
however will be above normal. Milder conditions will return following a cold
front Monday night.
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Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 4pm. Widespread fog, mainly before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 81. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 64. Light and variable wind. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 89. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 67. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 88. Calm wind becoming west northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 68.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 4pm. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a high near 74. Light and variable wind becoming south southwest around 6 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers before 8pm. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 62. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
Sunny, with a high near 82. North northwest wind 8 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 3am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. West northwest wind around 7 mph.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. West northwest wind around 10 mph.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 65.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 4pm. Widespread fog, mainly before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming south southeast around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 65. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. North wind 3 to 6 mph.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Calm wind becoming west northwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 69.
Nantahala Area
Today
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 65. West southwest wind 3 to 6 mph.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming west northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. West southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Sunday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming west northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
After a line of storms cross the area in the morning, hazardous weather is not expected.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather
A 1,2,3-Punch of Solar Storms Speed to Earth | Space Weather News 04 August 2023
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• The Atlantic hurricane season has begun: What we know and what we don’t [ARS TECHNICA]
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
• The official hurricane season for the Atlantic basin is from June 1 to November 30, but tropical cyclone activity sometimes occurs before and after these dates, respectively. The peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is September 10, with most activity occurring between mid-August and mid-October.
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Thu Aug 10 2023
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected in the next 7 days.
TROPICAL TIDBITS
Tropical Tidbits is a website run by Macon Media's favorite no-nonsense tropical forecaster, Levi Cowan. He does not post material just to get clicks or to sensationalize the storms he covers to "make them more exciting." He is reliable and sober, unlike The Weather Channel crowd of Drama Queen Meteorologists.
Levi typically posts videos late in the afternoon or early before midnight on Youtube. [Youtube Channel]
[Thursday] Bret on Final Approach to Lesser Antilles; TD4 Forms (06-22-2023)
A Look at Historic Hurricane Dora Plus The Atlantic is About to Awaken (August 9th, 2023) | hurricanetrack
PM2.5 AQI is 35 (GOOD/CODE GREEN) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 35 (MODERATE/CODE YELLOW)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.4 out of 12) today with Grasses, Nettle, and Chenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (7.7 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for August 11th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 93°F in Franklin in 1957
Lowest Temperature 46°F in Highlands in 1958
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.10 inches in Highlands in 1919
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began in 1871)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of August
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 99°F in Franklin on 08-09-1980
Lowest Temperature 40°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 08-29-1968
Greatest Rainfall 9.68 inches in Highlands on 08-13-1940
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for August 11th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 2007
Lowest Temperature 40°F in Enka, Buncombe County in 1944
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.82 inches in Shelby, Cleveland Countyin 1928
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of August
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 110°F in Fayetteville, Cumberland County on 08-21-1983
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 08-23-1930
Greatest Rainfall 12.43 inches in Morehead City, Carteret County on 08-12-1955
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during August in the state)
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
8/12/23—Melinda Pennington & Diane Chermer—Blues ain’t got no
clues! Enjoy the music of two of the Shifty Sisters Group who are
taking the time to bring forward some of their originals that we don’t
always hear with the Group.
8/19/23—Charley Simmons—Award-winning finger-style guitarist of
Utah & 2 other states. You’ll be amazed at the sounds this guy gets
out of a guitar! The late Chet Atkins has given this guy his blessings.
8/26/23—Zip Robertson—A Singer/Songwriter who’s journeyed from
Ky to FL & up to Western NC bringing us lucky listeners acoustic
music to touch our hearts. Welcome Zip!
Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the
River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with
monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and
Donations. As always, thank you for your support!
Mountain Findings
432 Spruce Street (physical)
Highlands, North Carolina 28741
Web: MountainFindings.org
Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.
• Nearly 50,000 Americans died by suicide in 2022, a record-high number: CDC [KABC-TV (Los Angeles, CA)]
• Trump election trial: Special counsel Jack Smith seeks Jan. 2 start date [CNBC]
• House GOP weighs shutdown escape hatch: A deal with Dems [Politico]
International News Headlines
West African leaders aiming for peaceful resolution in Niger as junta installs new government | CBS News
• Western officials: Niger junta warned they’d kill deposed president after any military intervention [AP News]
• A rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years [AP News]
• Middle East Roundup: US, Iran jostle for control of Gulf [Al JAzeera]
• Taiwan’s TSMC reports NT$178 billion revenue for July [Taiwan]
• Ecuador arrests 6 Colombians over candidate's assassination [DW News]
On The Media: News About Journalism, Media Literacy, and Ethics in Journalism The Basics of Investigative Journalism presented by Mark Lee Hunter | Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism
• Q&A: Tim Burke’s lawyer on the seizure of his devices and what it means for journalism [Columbia Journalism Review]
• Doing internal work to improve newsrooms in ways readers may never hear about [Poynter]
• The poster child for micropayments for news is getting out of the micropayments business [Nieman Lab]
Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County:
Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Macon County Public Health will stop publishing weekly COVID updates but will continue to monitor local case levels and trends. In the event that case counts increase significantly, MCPH will notify the public and resume weekly COVID updates.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 8:14am CEST, 26 July 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 June 2023, a total of 668,882,018 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 8:14am CEST, 26 July 2023, there have been 768,560,727 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,952,522 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 23 July 2023, a total of 13,474,348,801 vaccine doses have been administered.
COVID-19 EG.5 variant spreading through U.S. | CBS News
• COVID-19 took a toll on heart health and doctors are still grappling with how to help [AP News]
• Additive effects of booster mRNA vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection on T cell immunity across immunocompromised states [Sceince: Translational Medicine]
• Predicting the public health impact of bivalent vaccines and nirmatrelvir-ritonavir against COVID-19 [Open Forum Infectious Diseases]
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Cinetimes]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
The Level1 Show August 11 2023: Please Remove Cashier From Employment Area | Level1 Techs
Do Delivery Drones Dream of Electric Bees? - DTNS 4580 | Daily Tech News Show
The Real Reason Why Chandrayaan 2 Crashed on the Moon | Scott Manley
[LIVE] Visit CERN's ATLAS Experiment | National Science Foundation News
The Last Planet | Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Why ChatGPT Is Getting Worse at Math | WSJ Tech News Briefing
The End of Anne Frank’s Diary - War Against Humanity 108 | World War Two
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Civilization: Is the West History? | Episode 2: Science | BBC Select
1919 – Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
2000 – An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2006 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, August 11, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe following websites or books:
MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War.
Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center.
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