Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A brief period of cool and dry high pressure is expected today before unsettled conditions return Friday and linger into early next week. Another significant weather system will be approaching by the middle of next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday
Showers, mainly after 9am. Highs near 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Friday Night
Showers, mainly before 4am. Lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of rain is 90%.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 9am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable by noon.
Tonight
A slight chance of rain and snow showers after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Friday
A chance of rain and snow showers before 7am, then rain showers. Highs near 40. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Friday Night
Showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday
Showers, mainly after 8am. Highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Friday Night
Showers, mainly before 4am. Lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 9am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph early in the morning decreasing to calm by midmorning.
Tonight
A chance of snow showers after 2am, mixing with rain after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds increadint to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph before midnight. Chance of rain is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Friday
Showers, mainly after 8am. Highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Friday Night
Showers, mainly before 4am. Lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8am. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
March 2024 Schedule
3-2-24—Bill Peterson & Charley Simmons--What a treat! You'll hear originals by both these guys along with some covers. Bill has that booming voice on his blues selections (ask him to play his cheeky dog songs:) & Charley has the finger-style guitar down pat with his songs.
3-9-24---The Shifty Sisters--Bringing their own songs and some covers to The Frog. Always fun, always heartfelt, many times irreverant as they sing about the Low Rent Side of Heaven and Facebook Blues.
3-16-24---Barry Roma--Our Franklin Crooner!...bringing you Classic Love Songs from Johnny Mathis, Orbison, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & more.
3-23-24---No Live Music inside. WHT (Women's History Trail) Statue dedication across the street. Frog Quarters will be open our Regular Hours for gifts and to serve Coffee & Treats.
3-30-24---Sonia Brooks & Chuck Dorling--Come hear and sing along with a gal who loves folk and popular music of the past decades. She loves to entertain and make sure that the songs are preserved and shared with all age groups. Chuck is right along with her & on his own.... singin' the blues.
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
---NATIONAL---
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): "This will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate." | C-SPAN
Examining Mitch McConnell's legacy as Senate Republican leader | CBS News
• McConnell departure leaves GOP’s Reagan wing reeling [Politico]
Illinois judge removes Trump from ballot because of “insurrectionist ban” | CNN
• Supreme Court to Say If Donald Trump Must Stand Trial in 2020 Election Conspiracy Case [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]
• Trump Says He Might Have to Sell Properties to Pay $454 Million Penalty [New York Times]
• Leaked Russian military files reveal criteria for nuclear strike [Financial Times]
• Mark Meadows loses latest bid to move Georgia election case to federal court [ABC News]
• 'Devastating' Texas wildfires spark disaster declaration, nuclear plant partial evacuation [ABC News]
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Washington Today (2-28-24): Sen. McConnell to step down as Republican leader after Nov. elections | C-SPAN
Global National: Feb. 28, 2024 | Documents on 2 Winnipeg scientists fired newly released
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Feb 28 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Feb. 28, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Feb 28 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 28, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Battle for Reality: String Theory vs Quantum Field Theory | Arvin Ash
• The Sky This Week from February 23 to March 1: Catch a chilly Full Snow Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 23 to March 3 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show February 28 2024: Generateddit | Level1 Techs
Preserving Video Game History - DTNS 4715 | Daily Tech News Show
The Exotic Stars Lurking Within Our Universe | Astrum
Revise the textbooks: New type of magnetism confirmed | Sabine Hossenfelder
Why Does Everything Decay Into Lead | SciShow
• Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns [New York Times]
• ‘Killer robots’ are coming, and U.N. is worried [Harvard Gazaette]
• SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]
• Why is Japan's chip czar welcoming TSMC with open arms? [Commonwealth Magazine]
• 'It's my job': Salesforce's Marc Benioff tracked journalist in Hawaii, per report [SF Gate]
• Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? [Scientific American]
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History Video Section---
NASA DART Mission May Have Completely Resurfaced The Asteroi | Antov Petrov
The Paradox of an Infinite Universe | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
How Private Data and Big Tech Are Controlling Your Life | Curious Droid
The quantum world: Dreams and delusions | Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Michio Kaku, and more! | The institute of Art and Ideas
Kasm: the Open Source Workspace Streaming Platform | Michael Tunnell
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On This Day
February 29th is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 306 days remain until the end of the year.
February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day"), an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the 60th day of a leap year in both calendars, and 306 days remain until the end of the leap year. It is also the last day of February in leap years with the exception of 1712 in Sweden. It is also the last day of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the last day of meteorological summer in the Southern Hemisphere in leap years.
In the Gregorian calendar (the standard civil calendar used in most of the world), February 29 is added in each year that is an integer multiple of four (except for years evenly divisible by 100, but not by 400). The Julian calendar — since 1923 a liturgical calendar — has a February 29 every fourth year without exception. (Consequently, February 29 in the Julian calendar, since 1900, falls 13 days later than February 29 in the Gregorian, until the year 2100.)
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
888 – Odo, count of Paris, is crowned king of West Francia (France) by Archbishop Walter of Sens at Compiègne.
1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies.
1644 – Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage begins as he leaves Batavia in command of three ships.
1704 – In Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.
1720 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on March 24.
1768 – Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
1796 – The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
1892 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
1908 – James Madison University is founded at Harrisonburg, Virginia in the United States as The State Normal and Industrial School for Women by the Virginia General Assembly.
1912 – The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
1916 – Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1916 – In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
1920 – The Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
1936 – The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
1940 – For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
1940 – Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
1940 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco.
1944 – The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II.
1960 – The 5.7 Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
1972 – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam as part of Nixon's Vietnamization policy in the Vietnam War.
1980 – Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
1984 – Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
1988 – Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
1992 – First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
1996 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew are killed.
1996 – The Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
2000 – Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.
2004 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup.
2008 – The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media.
2008 – Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
2012 – North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.
2016 – At least 40 people are killed and 58 others wounded following a suicide bombing by ISIL at a Shi'ite funeral in the city of Miqdadiyah, Diyala.
2020 – Joe Biden wins the South Carolina primary election.
2020 – During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured.
2020 – The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, February 29, 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.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
888 – Odo, count of Paris, is crowned king of West Francia (France) by Archbishop Walter of Sens at Compiègne.
1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies.
1644 – Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage begins as he leaves Batavia in command of three ships.
1704 – In Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.
1720 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on March 24.
1768 – Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
1796 – The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
1892 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
1908 – James Madison University is founded at Harrisonburg, Virginia in the United States as The State Normal and Industrial School for Women by the Virginia General Assembly.
1912 – The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
1916 – Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1916 – In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
1920 – The Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
1936 – The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
1940 – For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
1940 – Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
1940 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco.
1944 – The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II.
1960 – The 5.7 Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
1972 – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam as part of Nixon's Vietnamization policy in the Vietnam War.
1980 – Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
1984 – Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
1988 – Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
1992 – First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
1996 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew are killed.
1996 – The Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
2000 – Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.
2004 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup.
2008 – The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media.
2008 – Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
2012 – North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.
2016 – At least 40 people are killed and 58 others wounded following a suicide bombing by ISIL at a Shi'ite funeral in the city of Miqdadiyah, Diyala.
2020 – Joe Biden wins the South Carolina primary election.
2020 – During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured.
2020 – The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
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Support Macon Media
If you receive value from what Macon Media provides to the community, please consider becoming a supporter and contribute at least a dollar a month. Those who support Macon Media with at least a dollar a month receive early access to video of some events and meetings before they are made public on the website. Videos and news involving public safety are not subject to early access.
Or, if you prefer Pay Pal, try PayPal.me/MaconMedia
Published at 5:00am on Thursday, February 29, 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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