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OUTLOOK

Low pressure will move off the coast of the Carolinas today and then off to the northeast tonight. Weak high pressure will move back into the region for the middle of the week. A weak cold front should move through on Thursday with no effect, followed by more high pressure to finish out the week. Another cold front and low pressure could affect our area over the weekend.

General Forecast Through Wednesday Night

Franklin Area

Today

Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Light winds out of the northwest.

Tonight

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.

Tuesday

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

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s.

Highlands Plateau

Today

A slight chance of rain between 7am and 9am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 40. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.

Tonight

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s.

Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the north around 5 mph.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Calm winds.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 30.

Nantahala Area

Today

Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph after midnight.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Calm winds.

Wednesday

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

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 30.




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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Other than possible black ice on area roadways this morning, hazardous weather is not expected today.





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Almanac

Air quality is in the upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the upper range of green. due to smoke from several fires in the southeast.

Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor

Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.7 out of 12) today with Juniper and Elm being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (2.5 out of 12).


Record Weather Events for February 6th

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

Highest Temperature 69°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1957
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Highlands in 1895
Greatest Rainfall 2.30 inches in Franklin in 1873
Greatest Snowfall 6.5 inches in Nantahala in 1936

Record weather events for January in Macon County

Highest Temperature 79°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 02-28-1996
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

All-time record weather events for Macon County

Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on Jul 29, 1952
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on Jan 21, 1985
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on Jul 29, 1879
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Mar 13, 1993




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Local and State News

• Macon County Board of Commissioners – January 2022 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]

Franklin Town Council – January 2022 Regular Meeting

Asheville Citizen-Times COVID-19 Tracker [Asheville Citizen-Times]

NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast – February 6th, 2021

PBS NewsHour Full Episode February 6th, 2021


Since it looks like we may be in for a new wave of infections, here is a section on COVID-19. It will include local, regional, state, national, and global items.

COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 18, 2021]


• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]

Globally, as of 5:30pm CET, 4 February 2022, there have been 386,548,962 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5,705,754 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 February 2022, a total of 10,040,768,270 vaccine doses have been administered.
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:30pm CET, 4 February 2022, there have been 75,087,972 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 888,113 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 28 January 2022, a total of 523,213,327 vaccine doses have been administered.

• Myocarditis Risk 17 Times Higher for Unvaccinated Patients Ages 12-30 Who Get COVID-19 Than COVID-Vaccinated Patients [Epic Research]

Dr John Campbell: Are omicron vaccines needed

• The 1918 flu didn’t end in 1918. Here’s what its third year can teach us. [Washington Post via Yahoo! News]

• Northeast Ohio hospitals place hundreds of workers on leave for refusing COVID-19 vaccine [Akron Beacon Journal]

• The Remarkable Evolutionary Plasticity of Coronaviruses by Mutation and Recombination: Insights for the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future Evolutionary Paths of SARS-CoV-2 [MDPI (click full artivel or Download PDF)]

• TWiV 861: Rough draft of Omicron origins [This Week in Virology]

• TWiV 862: COVID-19 clinical update #100 with Dr. Daniel Griffin [This Week in Virology]

• TWiV 863: Does this challenge study pass the smell test? [This Week in Virology]

• Omicron has meant even more adjustments for kids. Here’s how parents can help. [National Geographic]

• Monitoring COVID-19

[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]

[Outbreak.info]

• CDC Releases Emergency Guidance for Healthcare Facilities to Prepare for Potential Omicron Surge [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]

• COVID-19 case rates by county in 2021 [AXIOS]


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Science and Technology News Roundup



Podcasts and Long Form Videos
Anything from educational, entertainment, history and technology

Was The Universe Born From Nothing?

How a CS student tracks Elon’s Private Jet with Python // The Code Report

Slackware 15, ProtonDB, Peppermint OS, Raspberry Pi, Tiny Core, Trisquel | This Week in Linux 184

Amazing Launch Footage, Wayward Boats & Buzzing The Launch Tower – Deep Space Updates – Feb 6th 2022

How did SpaceX lose to Blue Origin on a NASA space station contract? Was this handled fairly?

Study Claims Exploding Comet Destroyed a Native American Culture…But Did It?


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On This Day

February 7th is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 327 days remain until the end of the year (328 in leap years).

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Published at 5:00am on Monday, February 7, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins

Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to the 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. Back to Top




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