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Saturday, February 3, 2024

News and Weather Briefing for Saturday, February 03, 2024





Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.

GENERAL OUTLOOK

Dry high pressure will push into the area from the north today. Then, a low pressure system will track east along the Gulf Coast to the southeast coastline Sunday into Monday. Most of the deep moisture will pass south of our area. Dry and mild conditions will return through the rest of next week, with another low pressure system likely arriving from the west on Friday.


SCHOOL DELAYS

Nantahala School will be a on a two hour delay for Monday, 01-29-2024.



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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Monday Night





Franklin Area

Today

Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Sunday

Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.

Sunday Night

A 20 percent chance of showers after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph.

Monday

Mostly sunny, with highs near 60.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s.


Highlands Plateau

Today

Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast in the afternoon.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.

Sunday

Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the east 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Sunday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly between 10pm and 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northeast 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Monday

Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 30.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the south 3 to 6 mph.

Sunday

Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 8 mph.

Sunday Night

A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph.

Monday

Mostly sunny, with highs near 60.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 30.


Nantahala Area



Today

Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the east around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Calm winds increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.

Sunday

Partly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.

Sunday Night

A 20 percent chance of showers after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.

Monday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around freezing.


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Hazards



Hazardous weather is not expected today.


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Record Weather Events for February 3rd

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

Highest Temperature 75°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1989
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Highlands in 1917
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 3.23 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station 2016
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands in 2013

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
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 3rd in North Carolina

Highest Temperature 84°F in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 1989
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1981
Greatest Rainfall 3.96 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1982
Greatest Snowfall 18.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1998
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)

Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.

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

February 2024 Schedule

2-3-24---Sonia Brooks—Come hear and even 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.

2-10-24---Barry Roma—This guy has all the Classic love songs under his belt—Sinatra, Elvis, Johnny Mathis and much more. Travel down Memory Lane with Barry Roma. Barry’s baritone voice brings those love songs alive and gets us all in the mood for Valentine’s Day.

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---

Snerd the Garner groundhog predicts an early spring! | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)



• Feds cite Asheville’s Mission Hospital for “immediate jeopardy,” HCA division president tells staff [Asheville Watchdog]

• Shuttered due to landslides & repair, Sylva's Bryson Park nears reopening; input wanted [WLOS-TV 9Asheville, NC)]

• Blue Ridge Parkway saw 16.7 million visitors in 2023 – more visitors than the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite national parks combined [BPR]

• Charlotte-area police have seized so much money through asset forfeiture, they can't even spend it all [WCNC-TV (Charlotte, NC)]

• Final program cuts announced at UNCG
List includes 20 programs, one of which will transition to a new department [NC Newsline]

• Troxler: NC farms under threat from rapid growth [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

---RECENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS--

• NC DPI Awards $62 Million Grant for Construction of a New Franklin High School [Macon Media]

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

• 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---

President Biden Attends Dignified Transfer for U.S. Troops Killed in Jordan Drone Attack | C-SPAN



What we know about the U.S. strikes in Iraq and Syria | CBS News



US economy adds 353,000 jobs in January, beating expectations | Yahoo Finance



House Republicans subpoena Trump prosecutor Fani Willis | Scripps News



Defense Secretary Austin Holds News Conference | C-SPAN



• The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism [The Atlantic]

• Ex-CIA programmer gets 40 years for passing spy secrets to WikiLeaks in ‘most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history’ [Fortune Magazine]

• Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage [ProPublica]

• The Hottest Beer in America Doesn’t Have Alcohol [Wall Street Journal]

• Man Convicted of Assaulting Police in Tipping Point on Jan. 6 [New York Times]

• 5 Capitol riot defendants who led "first breach" on Jan. 6 found guilty at trial [CBS News]

• Federal judge postpones Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 trial as DC Circuit weighs immunity claims [Courthouse News Service]

---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP--- The New Anti-Trump Republicans: A Data Breakdown | WSJ State of the Stat



Campaign Trail 2024: Presidential Candidates in South Carolina & Nevada | C-SPAN



• Biden’s economy keeps messing up Trump’s message [Politico]

• Haley has been more aggressive against Trump. How will it play in SC ahead of GOP primary [The State]

• Haley says 'closing the gap' with Trump in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary is her goal [Fox News]

• Biden Finds Support but Also Protests in Michigan [New York Times]

• Michigan GOP turmoil threatens effort to flip state for Trump [The Hill]

• UPDATE: Biden to appear at Sunday campaign event in Historic Westside [KLAS-TV (Las Vegas, NV)]

International News Headlines

U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in retaliation for deadly attack on American troops | PBS NewsHour



Argentina's omnibus bill: Lower house passes divisive legislation | Al Jazeera



• Mainichi drone footage shows areas hit by Jan. 1 Japan quake, tsunami, fire a month later [The Mainichi]

• N. Korea says it conducted 'cruise missile super-large warhead power test' [Yonhap News Agency]

• Three wounded in knife attack at major Paris train station [Straits Times]

• How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now [The Verge]

• Javier Milei: Protests as lawmakers debate reforms supported by Argentine president [BBC News]

• UN experts: Terrorist threat is high in Africa conflict zones and Afghanistan, and rose in Europe [Africa News]

• Poland: The rule of law against populist legacy [Le Monde]

Brooks and Capehart on the U.S. retaliation against Iran-backed militants | PBS NewsHour



Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, Feb. 2, 2024



Washington Today (1-31-24): Senators press tech CEO's on stopping online child sexual exploitation | C-SPAN Radio



Global National: Feb. 2, 2024 | NHL players on leave and facing sex assault charges still being paid



ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Feb 02, 2024


"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Feb. 2, 2024


Nightly News Full Broadcast - Feb 02 | NBC News


PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 02, 2024)



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

• The Sky This Week from February 2 to 9: A last look at Mercury [Astronomy Magazine]

• This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 2 – 11 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]

The Level1 Show January 30 2024: Facial Facsimilie| Level1 Techs



Apple Vision Pros and Cons - DTNS 4698 | Daily Tech News Show



The US Army Unleashes this Robot Tank | Task and Purpose



The F-22 is getting a massive upgrade to stay deadly for years to come | Sandboxx



• Starlab commercial space station to launch on Starship [Space News]

• SpaceX: DOD Has Requested Taking Over Starship For Individual Missions [Aviation Week ]

• ISP Suggests That Record Labels Can Sue Torrent Client Developers [Torrent Freak]

• Scientists Discovered Strange ‘Entities’ Called ‘Obelisks’ In Our Bodies. Their Purpose Is a Mystery. [Vice News]

• Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired [The Verge]

• UW–Madison researchers first to 3D-print functional human brain tissue [University of Wisconsin-Madison]

• Jan. 6 Was an Example of Networked Incitement − a Media and Disinformation Expert Explains the Danger of Political Violence Orchestrated Over Social Media [The Good Men Project]

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

How Space-Based Reflectors Can Change Solar Energy | Fraser Cain



First Experiment to Confirm Process that Might Have Created Universe | Sabine Hossenfelder



Hanks Williams Last Ride - State Line in the Middle of Main Street - Starting a New Adventure | The Carpetbagger



May 25th, 2023 // The SAN JON demon supercell | Mike Olbinski



Linux Bubble | Linux Out Loud 82



The Last Days of Auschwitz - War Against Humanity 126 | World War Two



Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell






---COVID News Roundup---

TWiV 1084: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV



WHO Update on COVID-19 | World Health Organization



• Post-COVID cognitive deficits at one year are global and associated with elevated brain injury markers and grey matter volume reduction: national prospective study [Research Square]

• An intranasal live-attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine limits virus transmission [nature: communications]

• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Feb 01, 2024) [Centers for Disease Control]

Beyond the Noise #27: When vaccine fears mimic SNL skits | Microbe TV



TWiV 1083: AI builds better viruses | Microbe TV



• US government failure to protect frontline workers from COVID led to thousands of deaths, scientists say [CIDRAP]

• In Utero Exposure to Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination and Offspring Neurodevelopment at 12 and 18 Months [JAMA Network]

• Long COVID is associated with severe cognitive slowing: a multicentre cross-sectional study [Lancet: eClinicalMedicine]

• Here’s why COVID-19 isn’t seasonal so far [Science News]

• 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 #27: When vaccine fears mimic SNL skits [Microbe TV]

• TWiV 1082: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]

• TWiV 1083: AI builds better viruses [Microbe TV]




---Russo-Ukraine War News Roundup---

Pillars of Russia. On What Does Russian Success or Failure Rest? | Good Times, Bad Times



Day 709: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV



Ukraine War Update NEWS (20240202b): Military Aid & Geopolitical News | ATP Geopolitics



• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 2, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]

• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 709: Ukraine’s artillery shortage hits twice as EU’s 1mn round pledge fails [Euromaidan Press]

🔴 (viewer discretion advised) US Troops Killed in Jordan | Combat Footage Show



Does Ukraine even need another big offensive in 2024? | Binkov's Battlegrounds



How the Russia-Ukraine War Emboldened Iran | William Spaniel



Ukraine's new strategy to beat Russia in a long war - and why it needs the West's help | Daily Mail



• Ukraine war: Two French volunteers killed in Russian drone strike - Macron confirms [BBC News]

• Ukraine Cabinet minister: €50 billion EU aid is 'vital' [DW News]

• Russian drone assault cuts power for thousands, traps 100+ miners underground as Ukraine downs 11/24 UAVs [Euromaidan]

• Russia, Ukraine clash over bodies of military plane crash victims [Al Jazeera]

• (video) Ukraine sinks a Russian warship... again. Uncertain future of the US aid package for Ukraine [Telewizja Republika (via YouTube)]

---PRO-RUSSIAN NEWS OUTLETS---

• Russia-led trade bloc’s de-dollarization almost complete [Russia Today]

• Putin: We will push back demilitarised zone in Ukraine/ [Pravda]

• Medvedev says NATO 'playing with fire' with latest military exercises [TASS: Russian News Agency]





---Israel-Hamas War News Roundup (aka Iraninan Proxy War with Israel)---

• Iran Update (Hamas-Israel War), February 2, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]

• US launched strikes in Iraq, Syria as recent poll says Israelis distrust Netanyahu in managing war [Haaretz]

• Israel’s war on Gaza liveblog: US strikes drive fears of Gaza war spillover [Al Jazeera]

Defeating Hamas in Khan Yunis | Jerusalem Dateline - February 2, 2024 | CBN News



Gazans fear Israeli attack on their last refuge | ANC 24/7



• Western officials in protest over Israel Gaza policy [BBC News]

• Hamas considers Gaza truce proposal endorsed by Israel [DW News]

• 🔴 Liveblog: Israel launches deadly strikes on 'pressure cooker' Rafah ahead of Gaza truce push [France 24]

• U.S. Targets Iran’s Forces and Allies in Syria and Iraq [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]

• Who will we be when this war is over? [YNET News]

• Blinken to make fifth trip to region since Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel [Al Arabiya News]

• EU told ‘double standards’ for Ukraine and Gaza hurt relations with Indo-Pacific [South China Morning Post]






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On This Day

February 3rd is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 331 days remain until the end of the year (332 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)




1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.

1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.

1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

1509 – The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.

1583 РBattle of Ṣo Vicente takes place off Portuguese Brazil - three English warships led by navigator Edward Fenton fight off three Spanish galleons sinking one in the process.

1661 – Maratha forces under Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Umberkhind.

1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.

1706 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.

1716 – The 1716 Algiers earthquake sequence began with an Mw  7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria.

1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.

1783 – Spain–United States relations are first established.

1787 – Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.

1807 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.

1809 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.

1813 – José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.

1830 – The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.

1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.

1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

1916 – The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of seven lives.

1917 – World War I: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.

1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.

1927 – A revolt against the military dictatorship of Portugal breaks out at Oporto.

1930 – Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.

1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.

1933 – Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.

1943 – The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.

1944 – World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.

1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.

1945 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.

1953 – The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.

1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.

1959 – Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa, an event later known as The Day the Music Died.

1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.

1961 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.

1966 – The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.

1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.

1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.

1984 – Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.

1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.

1989 – After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.

1989 – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.

1994 – Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.

1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

1998 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.

2007 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.

2014 – Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia.


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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, February 03, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins


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