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Thursday, January 18, 2024

News and Weather Briefing for Thursday, January 18, 2024





Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.

GENERAL OUTLOOK

High pressure will move off the eastern seaboard today. A low pressure system will arrive from the west tonight and cross the region, bringing a brief shot of wintry mix to the mountains tonight and Friday. Very cold air will begin to spill in behind the system on Friday and settle over the region through the weekend. Warmer temperatures return early next week.


WINTER WEATHER HAZARDS FOR TONIGHT THROUGH THE WEEKEND

A light wintry mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain is expected
across the mountains Thursday night into Friday. Light ice and snow
accumulations will be possible, mainly on elevated and exposed
surfaces.

In addition, a very cold airmass will also spread over the region
late Friday and linger through the weekend. Cold temperatures and
bitter wind chills will be likely across the area.





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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Friday Night





Franklin Area

Today

Increasing clouds, with highs in the upper 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Tonight

Sleet likely before 1am, then freezing rain likely between 1am and 2am, then a chance of rain after 2am. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday

A slight chance of snow and sleet before 10am, then a slight chance of snow between 10am and 1pm. Partly sunny, with highs near freezing. Windy, with winds out of the northwest 20 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 50 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows around 8. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Wind chills will be below zero at times.

Saturday

Sunny, with highs near 20.

Saturday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 7.


Highlands Plateau

Today

Increasing clouds, with highs in the upper 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Tonight

Sleet likely before 1am, then freezing rain likely between 1am and 2am, then a chance of rain after 2am. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday

A slight chance of snow and sleet before 10am, then a slight chance of snow between 10am and 1pm. Partly sunny, with highs near freezing. Windy, with winds out of the northwest 20 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 50 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows around 8. Blustery, with winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph.

Saturday

Sunny, with highs near 20.

Saturday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 7.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Increasing clouds, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the south 3 to 8 mph.

Tonight

Rain, freezing rain, and sleet likely, becoming all rain after 1am. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph decreasing to light and variable before midnight. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday

A 20 percent chance of rain before 8am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows around 9. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30mph. Wind chills will be below zero at times.

Saturday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 20s.

Saturday Night

Clear, with lows around 6.


Nantahala Area

Today

Increasing clouds, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

Rain before 11pm, then rain or freezing rain between 11pm and midnight, then rain likely after midnight. Patchy fog after 11pm. Lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the southwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no ice accumulation expected.

Friday

A chance of sleet before 8am, then a chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with highs near freezing. WInds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows around 8. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Wind chills will be below zero at times.

Saturday

Mostly sunny, with highs near 20.

Saturday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 5.


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Hazards

A light wintry mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain is expected across the mountains Thursday night into Friday. Light ice and snow accumulations will be possible, mainly on elevated and exposed surfaces.

In addition, a very cold airmass will also spread over the region late Friday and linger through the weekend. Cold temperatures and bitter wind chills will be likely across the area.

Winter Weather Advisory
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
335 AM EST Thu Jan 18 2024


...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST FRIDAY...

* WHAT...Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow accumulations from a trace to one inch, with the higher amounts along the highest ridge tops. Ice accumulations of a trace to a few hundredths of an inch, except up to one to two tenths of an inch along the higher ridges of the extreme southern North Carolina mountains.

* WHERE...Rabun County in northeast Georgia and the North Carolina mountains along and east of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

* WHEN...From 7 PM this evening to 7 AM EST Friday.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous conditions could impact the morning commute.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Winter Weather Advisory means that periods of snow, sleet, or freezing rain will cause travel difficulties. Be prepared for slippery roads and limited visibilities, and use caution while driving.

Please report snow and ice accumulations by calling the National Weather Service toll free at...1...800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1. Leave a message with your observation and the specific location where it occurred. You can also post your report to National Weather Service Greenville Spartanburg Facebook or tweet your report using hashtag nwsgsp.

Stay tuned to NOAA Weather Radio or your favorite source of weather information for the latest updates. Additional details can be found at www.weather.gov/gsp. The latest state road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.


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Record Weather Events for January 18th

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

Highest Temperature 71°F in Franklin in 1974
Lowest Temperature 0°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1977
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 3.10 inches in Highlands in 1926
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 8.0 inches in Highlands in 1893

Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of January Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 78°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-28-1999
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on 01-21-1985
Greatest Rainfall 5.10 inches in Highlands on 01-12-2018
Greatest Snowfall 10.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-08-1988

Record Weather Events for January 18th in North Carolina

Highest Temperature 80°F in Belhaven, Beaufort County in 1943
Lowest Temperature -11°F in Oconaluftee, Swain County in 1976
Greatest Rainfall 3.50 inches in Shelby, Cleveland County in 1926
Greatest Snowfall 10.3 inches in Roxboro, Person County in 2018
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of January Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 86°F in Marion, Mcdowell County on 01-24-1927
Lowest Temperature -34°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 01-21-1985
Greatest Rainfall 9.18 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 01-13-2018
Greatest Snowfall 28.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 01-28-1998




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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)

January Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.

Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)

This is a reminder that Frog Quarters remains closed throughout this week, but we will reopen with our regular schedule (Wed thru Sat, 9a to 2p) beginning next week on January 3rd........Meaning Live MidDay Music will resume on Saturdays from 11a to 1p.

1/20/24—Melody Lowery—A talented singer/songwriter who’s quite the musician whether playing her favorite guitar or demonstrating her many years of schooling on the keyboard. She’s known around town for her original, Frogtown Girl—a Franklin, NC ballad.

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.









News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---



• School Superintendent and Sheriff Release Statements Regarding the January 16th Incident at MVI School [Macon Media]

• Macon County grapples with trauma after false active shooter threat at school [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• Jackson County Commissioners raise questions about revised Fontana Regional Library Agreement [BPR]

• Edwards, Reagan trade jabs in N.C.-11 Primary Election debate [Smoky Mountain News]

• NC ethics panel drops investigation into Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• NC lawmakers are chosen by the people, but the people can’t see all that they’re doing [Raleigh News and Observer]



---RECENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS--

• Macon County Board of Commissioners | January 2024 Regular Meeting | [Macon Media]

• Franklin Town Council (January 2024 Regular Meeting) [Macon Media]

• Macon County Board of Commissioners (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]

• Macon County Board of Education December 2023 Meeting at Franklin High School [Macon Media]

• Franklin Town Council (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]

---NATIONAL---

'Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller' explores illegal economies | ABC News



Texas defies federal threat to vacate park along southern border | CBS News



• Blinken grounded in Davos as plane has 'critical failure' [BBC News]

• Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find [ARS TECHNICA]

• Nearly 50,000 veterans used free emergency suicide prevention in first year of program, VA says [CBS News]

• Supreme court hears key case that could strangle power of US federal agencies [The Guardian (UK)]

• New Mexico judgment gives public access to court pleadings on receipt [Courthouse News Service]

• The Downside of a Longer Life: More Time Spent Sick [Wall Street Journal]

• Colon cancer is killing more younger men and women than ever, new report finds [NBC News]

• Oldest US Senator Chuck Grassley admitted to hospital over infection [BBC News]

• Capitol rioter who assaulted at least 6 police officers is sentenced to 5 years in prison [AP News]

---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP--- • Trump Insists NBC and CNN Should Have Their Licenses ‘Pulled’ for Not Airing His Victory Speech [MEDIAITE]

• Judge Threatens to Eject Trump From Carroll Trial After His Complaints [New York Times]

• Democratic drama and Biden write-ins promise a New Hampshire primary to remember [AP News]

• Nikki Haley forced off New Hampshire campaign trail after father Ajit Singh Randhawa hospitalised [Hindustan Times]

• Ron DeSantis campaigns in Derry, planning events in South Carolina ahead of New Hampshire primary [WMUR-TV (Manchester, NH)]

• Shake-Up by a Desperate DeSantis Opens Wider Path for Haley in New Hampshire [New York Times]

• Study: One-fifth of potential NH primary voters weren’t able to vote in 2020 [Concord Monitor]

International News Headlines

The strategic and political calculus behind Iran attacks in Iraq and Pakistan: Insights by Bishara | Al Jazeera



Pakistan conducts strike in Iran in retaliation to missile strikes | WION



• Pakistan says killed ‘terrorists’ in Iran through 'precision military strikes': Top Updates [Hindustan Times]

• China Goes All In on Green Industry to Jolt Ailing Economy [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]

• China ambassador to Australia reiterates 'one China' principle following Taiwan election [Taiwan News]

• Nigeria: mass kidnappings returns to Abuja [Africa News]

• U.S. warns against N. Korea's weapons aid to Russia after N. Korean FM's visit to Moscow [Yonhap News Agency]

• Russian police crack down on rare protest in remote region [DW News]

• Prosecutor probing gang-related Ecuador live-broadcast armed assault killed [France 24]

---2024 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM AT DAVOS---

Women’s Rights in Iran | Davos 2024 | World Economic Forum



A Conversation with Pat Gelsinger and Klaus Schwab | Davos 2024 | World Economic Forum



• Davos 2024 Day 4: What to expect [World Economic Forum]

• Davos 2024: Dimon discusses Zelenskyy meeting; Argentina’s leader urges elite to reject socialism [CNBC]

• Argentina’s Javier Milei says west ‘in danger’ in fiery Davos speech [Financial Times]

• Sam Altman at Davos: AI Needs to Go Nuclear [Gizmodo]

• OpenAI CEO, Time Owner Benioff Disagree on AI’s Use of Copyrighted Content [Bloomberg]

• Israel's president and the OpenAI CEO will take part in Davos on Day 3 of the World Economic Forum [ABC News]




Washington Today (1-17-24): President meets Cong. leaders on aid to Ukraine & U.S. border security | C-SPAN Radio



Global National: Jan. 17, 2024 | Heavy snowfall brings southwestern BC to a standstill



ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Jan 17 2024


"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | Jan. 17, 2024


Nightly News Full Broadcast - Jan 17 | NBC News


PBS NewsHour full episode, (January 17, 2024)



---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---

• The Sky This Week from January 12 to 19: Mars returns [Astronomy Magazine]

• This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 12 – 21 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]

The Level1 Show January 17 2024: SpacedX | Level1 Techs



Earth's Core Reveals Structures That May Be Unique to Our Planet | Antov Petrov



• Exclusive: Altman says ChatGPT will have to evolve in “uncomfortable” ways [AXIOS]

Apple Passed Samsung as World’s Top Phone Maker in 2023 | Bloomberg Technology



• What exactly is the Rabbit R1? CES 2024's AI breakout hit explained [TechRadar]

• Five CES 2024 products I'd buy as soon as they'd take my money [ZDNET]

• BMW showed off hallucination-free AI at CES 2024 [ARS TECHNICA]

• It's so cold, Teslas are struggling to charge in Chicago [NPR]

• Apple Watch imports banned in America - again [CNN]

• Italian influencers to be bound by tighter rules [BBC News]

---Science, Technology, Culture, and History Video Section---

Galaxy AI is No Joke | TechLinked



Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2024 in 12 minutes | The Verge



The Hunt for Metallic Hydrogen | John Michael Godier



Does Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity? | PBS Space Time



Why Astrobiologists Should Look For Purple Planets | Astrum



Spinning a Laserdisc to Shrapnel at 80,000fps | The Slow Mo Guys



SpaceX Set to Launch First All-European Commercial Crew | Bloomberg Technology






---COVID News Roundup---

Chinese lab crafts mutant COVID-19 strain with 100% kill rate in ‘humanized’ mice | IaJyLJUMv58



Report: China mapped COVID 2 weeks before outbreak | Vargas Reports | News Nation



• Chinese Lab Mapped Deadly Coronavirus Two Weeks Before Beijing Told the World, Documents Show [Wall Street Journal]

• Energy and Commerce Committee Investigation Uncovers Earliest Known SARS-CoV-2 Sequence Released Outside of China [US House of Representatives]

• San Diego Unified amends COVID rules for students, staff who are asymptomatic [KNSD-TV (Sand Diego, CA)]

• SARS-CoV-2 infection causes dopaminergic neuron senescence [Cell Magazine]

• Crises Narratives Defining the COVID-19 Pandemic: Expert Uncertainties and Conspiratorial Sensemaking [National Library of Science]

• Beyond the Noise #26: Labels matter: VAERS [Microbe TV]

• TWiV 1078: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]

• TWiV 1079: Rock of phages [Microbe TV]








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On This Day

January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 347 days remain until the end of the year (348 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)


474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.

532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.

1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.

1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York.

1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.

1586 – The magnitude 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami.

1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.

1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.

1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".

1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.

1806 – Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.

1866 – Wesley College is established in Melbourne, Australia.

1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January

1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.

1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.

1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.

1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.

1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.

1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.

1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.

1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.

1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.

1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

1945 – World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.

1957 – Cold War: Operation Power Flite Around the World: Operation Power Flite | The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered



• [Wikipedia: Operation Power Flite]
• [Global Strike Command History Office (PDF)]
• [Smithsonian Magazine: In 1957, The U.S. Flew a Jet Around the World to Prove it Could Drop a Nuclear Bomb Anywhere]



1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.

1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.

1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.

1972 – Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.

1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.

1976 – Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.

1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.

1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney, killing 83.

1977 – SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.

1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).

1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.

1988 – China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members.

1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.

2002 – The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.

2003 – A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.

2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France

2007 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.

2008 – The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

2018 – A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan.[8] The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.

2019 – An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.


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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, January 18, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins


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