Dry high pressure will remain in place across the region through
Thursday. A cold front will approach from the northwest on Friday
and move east of the area on Saturday. Temperatures will remain
above normal ahead of the front, becoming below normal this weekend
following the frontal passage.
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Widespread fog, mainly before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds.
Thursday
Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the east around 5 mph.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph shifting to come out of the southeast in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Widespread fog, mainly before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Tonight
Areas of fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds.
Thursday
Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Thursday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Friday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 70.
Patchy frost will be possible in sheltered valley locations around
daybreak Sunday. More widespread frost is possible across the
mountains Sunday night into Monday morning.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather
Massive Filament Launch Brings Earth-directed Solar Storm | Informal Forecast 16 September 2023
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• The Atlantic hurricane season has begun: What we know and what we don’t [ARS TECHNICA]
• August 17, 2023) NOAA doubles the chances for a nasty Atlantic hurricane season due to hot ocean, tardy El Nino [AP News]
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 Sun Sep 24 2023
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Storm Philippe, located over the Central Tropical Atlantic.
1. Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave located near the Cabo Verde Islands is producing a
broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Environmental
conditions are expected to be conducive for some gradual development
of this system during the middle to latter portions of the week
while it moves westward across the eastern and central tropical
Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.
Major Coastal Storm Bringing Impacts to Mid-Atlantic (September 22nd, 2023) | hurricanetrack
PM2.5 AQI is 40 (GOOD/CODE GREEN) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 40 (GOOD/CODE GREEN)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (7.3 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range (7.0 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for October 4th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 90°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2019
Lowest Temperature 23°F in Frankklin in 1974
Greatest Rainfall 9.91 inches in Highlands in 1964
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of October
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 10-05-1954
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Highlands on 10-30-1910
Greatest Rainfall 9.91 inches in Highlands on 10-04-1954
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inHighlands on 10-20-1913
Record Weather Events for October 4th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 101°F in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 2019
Lowest Temperature 18°F in Laurel Springs, Ashe County in 1974
Greatest One-Day Rain 9.91 inches in Highlands, Macon County in 1964
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of October
Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 103°F in Wadesboro, Anson County on 10-03-2019
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 10-21-1952
Greatest Rainfall 12.53 inches in Lumberton, Robeson County on 10-08-2016
Greatest Snowfall 11.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on10-25-1990
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
9/23/23
11-Noon—Sonia Brooks—a talented lady who aims to keep the old folk songs popular with all ages. If you're of the Gen X generation, you probably first heard these songs when you were young.
Noon-1pm---Jay Baird—a guy who who is all Americana, getting into folk and other songs we haven’t heard in years. If you're a Baby Boomer, some of these songs you've heard as a kid.
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!
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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.
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 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 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 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 770,085,713 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,956,173 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 August 2023, a total of 13,499,983,736 vaccine doses have been administered.
COVID TWiV 1048: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
• Weeks after approval, parents of young children say Covid boosters are scarce [NBC News (via Yahoo News)]
• US adds another option for fall COVID vaccination with updated Novavax shots [AP News]
• TWiV 1044: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1045: Less Lassa, CRISPR RNA viruses [Microbe TV]
• The Sky This Week from September 29 to October 6: The year’s last Super Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• The annular eclipse is coming soon. Here’s where and when to see it [Astronomy Magazine]
• An Epic Fight Over What Really Killed the Dinosaurs A machine learning model has joined a vigorous debate over whether volcanoes began dinosaur doomsday well before the asteroid hit [Wired]
• 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 October 4 2023: Hot Phones and Delicious Pi | Level1 Techs
Facebook Does Want to Charge You - DTNS 4617 | Daily Tech News Show
Twas the Night Before Pixel - Android Faithful #13 | Daily Tech News Show
The Earth 500,000 Years Ago | 500,000 Subscribers Special | Ben G Thomas
Fermi Paradox: Alien Civilizations Consume their Home Worlds | John Michael Godier
Raspberry Pi 5 | Explaining Computers
Coder 537: Unity Mutiny | Jupiter Broadcasting
We told you so! - NSA hacked Huawei? MS big AI data blunder, ValiDrive update | Security Now | TWiT TV
Matters Microbial #9: Colorful microbes, citizen science, and tools for all | Microbe TV
Outside of the Nerdery - Google's 25th birthday, Meta Ray-Bans, Amazon and Google antitrust trial | This Week in Google | TWiT TV
Life on Mars: The Ongoing Mystery of the Viking Life Detections | John Michael Godier
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Civilization: Is the West History? | Episode 2: Science | BBC Select
1602 – Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
1636 – Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1693 – Nine Years' War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 – The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
1853 – The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 – Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
1918 – World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
1920 – The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, is founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim.[4]
1925 – Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.[5]
1925 – S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with it the whole crew of 53.
1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1936 – The Metropolitan Police and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1958 – The current constitution of France is adopted.
1960 – An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
1963 – Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1965 – Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded.
1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
1992 – El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
1993 – Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
2003 – The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
2006 – WikiLeaks is launched.
2010 – The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
2017 – Joint Nigerian-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
2021 – Bubba Wallace becomes the first African-American Driver in the modern era of NASCAR to win a major race
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, October 04, 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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