Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will remain over the western Carolinas and
northeast Georgia today through Wednesday. A cold front will
approach from the west on Thursday and cross the region Thursday
night through Friday morning. Dry weather returns for the weekend as
another front settles south into the region. Well above normal
temperatures are expected early next week.
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 again today. 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 Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the south 3 to 7 mph.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s.
Thursday Night
Showers, mainly after 7pm. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the south in the afternoon.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Windy.
Thursday Night
Showers, mainly after 8pm. Lows in the mid 40s. Windy. Chance of rain is 90%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 61.
Thursday Night
Showers, mainly after 7pm. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
lear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
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.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 90%.
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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 20th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 77°F in Franklin in 1994
Lowest Temperature -6°F in Highlands in 2015
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.140 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1954
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 0.6 inches in Franklin in 1940
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 20th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 81°F in Cedar Island, Carteret County in 2018
Lowest Temperature -20°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2015
Greatest Rainfall 4.00 inches in Lenoir, Caldwell County in 1947
Greatest Snowfall 11.0 inches in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1999
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.
On This Day
February 20th is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 314 days remain until the end of the year (315 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)
1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
1521 – Juan Ponce de Leon sets out from Spain for Florida with about 200 prospective colonists.
1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
1798 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
1816 – Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
1835 – The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
1846 – Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
1865 – End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1905 – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts.
1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
1920 – An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
1931 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
1931 – An anarchist uprising in Encarnación briefly transforms the city into a revolutionary commune.
1933 – The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1942 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
1944 – World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll.
1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1956 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
1968 – The China Academy of Space Technology, China's main arm for the research, development, and creation of space satellites, is established in Beijing.
1971 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
1979 – An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H2S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
1988 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1991 – In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters.
1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
2010 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
2014 – Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, many reportedly killed by snipers.
2015 – Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
2016 – Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, February 20, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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