Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Rain chances return today and Saturday, as a frontal system slowly moves into our area from the west. This front will interact with a trough moving into the eastern United States, resulting in abundant rainfall Saturday night and again Sunday night into Monday. Dry and cooler weather returns in mid week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A 50 percent chance of rain, mainly after noon. Cloudy, 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. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of rain after 5am. Patchy fog after 9pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the south 3 to 5 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
A chance of rain before 7am, then showers, mainly after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
Showers. Lows around 50. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the west after midnight. Chance of rain is 90%.
Sunday
Showers, mainly before 2pm. Highs near 60. Chance of rain is 80%.
Sunday Night
Showers. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 90%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with highs near 50. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before 3am. Patchy fog after 9pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
A slight chance of rain before 7am, then showers, mainly after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
Showers. Lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Sunday
Showers, mainly before 4pm. Highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Sunday Night
Showers. Lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 5am. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the south around 5 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
A chance of rain before 8am, then showers likely, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
Showers. Lows around 50. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Sunday
Showers, mainly before 4pm. Highs near 60. Chance of rain is 90%.
Sunday Night
Showers, mainly after 7pm. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 90%.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 50 percent chance of rain, mainly after 10am. Cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the south 3 to 6 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 50 percent chance of rain. Patchy fog after 8pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
Showers, mainly after noon. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
Showers. Lows around 50. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight. Chance of rain is 100%.
Sunday
Showers, mainly before noon. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Sunday Night
Showers. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 90%.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
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Record Weather Events for February 9th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 72°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1957
Lowest Temperature -8°F in Highlands in 1895
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 6.30 inches in Highlands in 1881
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.5 inches in Highlands in 2020
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 9th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 81°F in New Bern, Craven County in 1994
Lowest Temperature -11°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1995
Greatest Rainfall 6.30 inches in Highlands, Macon County in 1881
Greatest Snowfall 13.5 inches in Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County in 1948
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
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Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
February 2024 Schedule
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.
2-17-24---Paul Linser and Charlie Simmons—Two award-winning finger-style pickers that we’re always happy to have at Frog Quarters. You’ll hear covers and originals from Charlie and Paul as they keep us all entertained for MidDay Music.
2-24-24---Jim Austin’s Classic Country Band---Enjoy hearing Jim’s Band as they play the big sound of real, classic country—songs that you don’t hear on the radio anymore. Jim and the fellas are always a popular group with the crowd at Frog Quarters.
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---
• Doctor Dewhurst to Retire [Macon Media]
• NC district attorneys seek tweaks to juvenile justice law [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Sylva Town Council narrowly approves controversial panhandling ordinance [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• State launches new program to help fund county foster care, children still sleeping in DSS offices [BPR]
---RECENT STATE AND LOCAL NEWS---
Franklin Town Council (Feb 2024) | Macon Media
• Feds cite Asheville’s Mission Hospital for “immediate jeopardy,” HCA division president tells staff [Mountain Xpress]
• Duke Energy seeks new ways to meet the Carolinas' surging electric demand [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Under the Dome: What NC districts are challenged in new fair elections lawsuit? [Raleigh News and observer]
• From risk to resiliency: State waters summit highlights red tape, funding deficiencies [Smoky Mountain NEws]
---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---
SHORT TAKE: U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument on Former President Trump's Colorado Ballot Eligibility | C-SPAN
U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument: Former President Donald Trump's Colorado Ballot Eligibility | C-SPAN
• Supreme Court Appears Likely to Restore Donald Trump’s Ballot Eligibility [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]
• Special Counsel’s Report Puts Biden’s Age and Memory in the Spotlight [New York Times]
• GOP Rep. Tenney calls to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Biden from office after 'alarming' Hur report [Fox News]
• Biden and Trump both kept classified documents. Trump's alleged obstruction led to indictments [ABC News]
• Florida man bludgeons father to death after learning he got 'the vaccine:' Investigators [WCHS-TV (Charleston, WV)]
• Trump wins the Nevada Republican caucuses, continuing his march to the nomination [NBC News]
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On This Day
February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 325 days remain until the end of the year (326 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 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
1098 – The army of the First Crusade under the leadership of Bohemond of Taranto wins a battle against Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of
Antioch
1539 – The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.
1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1778 – Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1822 – Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola.
1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election.
1849 – The new Roman Republic is declared.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama
1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1893 – Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan.
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1929 – Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
1932 – Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.
1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
1941 – World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1943 – World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1945 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1951 – Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.
1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.
1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
1971 – The 6.5–6.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1976 – Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
1978 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1982 – Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.
1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
1996 – Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
2001 – The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor.
2016 – Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.[
2018 – Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.
2020 – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis.
2021 – Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, February 09, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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