News and Weather Briefing for Monday, February 19, 2024

Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.

Weak high pressure lingers through the middle of the week along with a warming trend. Low pressure approaches Thursday night and brings a round of precipitation to the area. Dry weather returns for the weekend.

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General Forecast Through Wednesday Night

Franklin Area

Washington’s Birthday

Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light and variable winds.

Tonight

Areas of fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Calm winds.

Tuesday

Areas of fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly 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.

Tuesday Night

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

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 60.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.

Washington’s Birthday

Sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming calm around noon.

Tonight

Clear, with lows around 30. Light and variable winds.

Tuesday

Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the south around 5 mph shifting to come out of the north before midnight.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 50.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.

Washington’s Birthday

Sunny, with highs near 56. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight

Clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Light and variable winds.

Tuesday

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

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Wednesday

Sunny, with highs near 60.

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.

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 19th

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

Highest Temperature 72°F in Franklin in 1890
Lowest Temperature -6°F in Highlands in 2015
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 1.83 inches in Highlands in 1949
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.0 inches in Franklin 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

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News Briefing

—NATIONAL—

Global National: Feb. 18, 2024 | Feds, BC look to kickstart housing construction on provincial land

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Feb 18 2024

“CBS Weekend News” Full Broadcast | Feb. 18, 2024

Nightly News Full Broadcast – Feb 17 | NBC News

PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 18, 2024)

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—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 16 to 23: Venus meets Mars [Astronomy Magazine]

• This Week’s Sky at a Glance, February 16-25 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]

The Level1 Show February 16 2024: A Sellout of Epic Proportions | Level1 Techs

SpaceX Starship Flight 3′s Launch Timeline – Get Ready! | Marcus House

IM-1 Mission Maneuvers and Events Update | Intuitive Machines

• Webb telescope makes unexpected find in outskirts of our solar system (These ice worlds aren’t dead) [Mashable]

• Air Canada Ordered to Pay Passenger Damages After Chatbot Lied About Bereavement Discounts [Gizmodo]

• Frequent marine heatwaves in the Arctic Ocean will be the norm [University of Hamburg]

• North Korean hackers use AI for more sophisticated scams [Financial Times]

• Complete and robust magnetic field confinement by superconductors in fusion magnets [nature: scientific reports]

• India effectively kills e-wallet used by over 300 million [The Register]

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On This Day

February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 315 days remain until the end of the year (316 in leap years).

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Published at 5:00am on Monday, February 19, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins

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

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