Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Expect a brief winter mix at the higher elevations this morning before cooler and drier weather spreads over the area and lingers through the middle of next week. A dry, warming trend will then develop, with temperatures climbing well above normal for mid February.
INCREASED FIRE DANGER TODAY
Very dry air in place across the region will permit afternoon relative humidity values to fall to between 20 and 25 percent for several hours across the region. Although winds will be fairly light from the southwest, drying fuels and brush will combine with the dry air to increase fire danger this afternoon.
Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities on whether you can burn today. If you do burn, use caution since fires can quickly get out of hand under these conditions.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Washington's Birthday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Washington's Birthday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph early in the morning shifting to come out of the south by midmorning.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the west around 5 mph shifting to come out of the northeast before midnight.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 50.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows around 30.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Washington's Birthday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming south by midmorning.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming northeast before midnight.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 50.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows around 30.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph.
Washington's Birthday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows around freezing.
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Hazards
Very dry air in place across the region will permit afternoon relative humidity values to fall to between 20 and 25 percent for several hours across the region. Although winds will be fairly light from the southwest, drying fuels and brush will combine with the dry air to increase fire danger this afternoon.
Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities on whether you can burn today. If you do burn, use caution since fires can quickly get out of hand under these conditions.
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Record Weather Events for February 18th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 73°F in Franklin in 1890
Lowest Temperature -6°F in Highlands in 1900
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.59 inches in Highlands in 1940
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 11.0 inches in Highlands in 1979
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 (also a state record)
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 17th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 83°F in Marshall, Madison County in 1927
Lowest Temperature -18 in Brevard, Transylvania County in 1958
Greatest Rainfall 4.00 inches in Fayetteville, Cumberland County in 1879
Greatest Snowfall 15.0 inches in Henderson, Vance County in 1989
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
2-24-24---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---
NC Lawmakers take steps toward banning 'gas station heroin', tianeptine | WXII-TV (Winston-Salem, TV)
• 'Every dollar matters': Attorney General Josh Stein appeals Duke Energy rate increase [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• A ‘history changing’ moment in NC education as universal private school vouchers arrive[Raleigh News and Observer]
• Report reveals patient safety issues, including patient death in hallway at Mission Health [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
---RECENT STATE AND LOCAL NEWS---
• North Carolina program seeks applications for bike, pedestrian project plans [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Warrant: 12-year-old boy found cold, stiff at NC wilderness camp [WBT-TV (Charlotte, NC)]
• (video) NC candidates, experts respond to Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson comments House Bill 2 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Under the Dome podcast: Primary endorsements, Black voters and Cotham challengers [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Swain County Manager headed to Jackson [BPR]
---NATIONAL---
National Security Threat: Russia's Orbital Nuke Announcement | Sandboxx
Trump’s $355M Penalty: New York Lawyer Breaks Down the Impacts | WSJ
• Messy Diversion in Georgia Trump Case Creates Perception Problem [New York Times]
• Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at ‘Sneaker Con,’ a day after a $355 million ruling against him [AP News]
• Biden visits East Palestine a year after toxic train derailment [ABC News]
• Pesticide linked to reproductive issues found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats and other oat-based foods [CBS News]
• Back-to-back storms set to hit an already drenched California, raising the flood threat [CNN]
• The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the U.S. [KSUT-FM: Southern Ute Tribal Radio]
• Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional, joining SpaceX and Trader Joe’s [AP News]
International News Headlines
• Russian nukes in space: Why the intelligence leak might be more serious than the threat itself [France 24]
• China Revives Socialist Ideas to Fix Its Real-Estate Crisis [Wall Street Journal]
• In Germany, protesters against the far right are hoping for a political jolt [Le Monde]
• Indonesia-China ties: will president-elect Prabowo confront Beijing or maintain Widodo’s economic deals? [South China Morning Post]
• China's intimidation of Taiwan is a global issue [Taiwan News]
• Japan 'paying attention' to remarks from N. Korean leader's sister: top gov't spokesman [Yonhap News Agency]
2024 Campaign Trail: Candidates in Texas, Michigan and South Carolina | C-SPAN
What the Ship: Ep99 | Black Sea, Russia & Ukraine | Red Sea | Panama Canal | Containers | War Risk | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, Feb. 16, 2024
Washington Today (2-16-24): GOP Rep. McCaul compares Putin to Hitler after death of Navalny
Global National: Feb. 17, 2024 | Will Moscow hand over the body of Alexei Navalny?
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Feb 17 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | Feb. 17, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Feb 17 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 17, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
EP28 Superhumanly Inhuman (The Holocaust) | Dan Carlin
• EP28 Superhumanly Inhuman (audio) [Dan Carlin (via Google Podcasts)]
• The Sky This Week from February 9 to 16: Comet Tsuchinshan and galaxies galore [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 9 – 17 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show February 16 2024: A Sellout of Epic Proportions | Level1 Techs
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On This Day
February 18th is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 316 days remain until the end of the year (317 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)
1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1268 – The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov.
1332 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
1637 – Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
1735 – The ballad opera called Flora, or Hob in the Well went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C.)
1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
1791 – Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1861 – With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
1885 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
1906 – Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
1911 – The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1915 – U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.
1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1932 – The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
1943 – World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943 – World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
1947 – First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
1965 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
1979 – Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
1983 – Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
1991 – The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2001 – Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, ultimately resulting in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
2001 – NASCAR Champion Dale Earnhardt dies from an accident on the final lap of the Daytona 500.
2003 – Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
2004 – Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran, when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
2007 – Samjhauta Express bombings occurred around midnight in Diwana near the Indian city of Panipat, 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of New Delhi, India.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
2013 – Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
2014 – At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 – Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.
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Published at 5:00am on Suniday, February 18, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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