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Weather Briefing for Wednesday, February 14, 2024

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Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.


GENERAL OUTLOOK

Dry high pressure controls our weather through the end of the work week along with a slow warming trend. A moist frontal system may affect the region this weekend. Dry and mild high pressure controls our weather to start next week.

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General Forecast Through Friday Night

Franklin Area

Today

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

Tonight

Clear, with lows around 30. Calm winds.

Thursday

Sunny, with highs near 60. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.

Friday

Partly sunny, with highs near 60.

Friday Night

A 50 percent chance of showers after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing.



Highlands Plateau

Today

Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight

Clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday

Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Friday

Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.

Friday Night

A 50 percent chance of showers after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.



Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph.

Tonight

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

Thursday

Sunny, with highs near 60. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.

Friday

Partly sunny, with highs near 60.

Friday Night

A 50 percent chance of showers after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.



Nantahala Area

Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.


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Record Weather Events for February 14th

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

Highest Temperature 76°F in Franklin in 1989
Lowest Temperature -8°F in Highlands in 1899
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.73 inches in Highlands in 1950
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 15.0 inches in Highlands in 1912

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






News Briefing

Global National: Feb. 13, 2024 | Canada increases student loan forgiveness for rural doctors, nurses

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Feb 13 2024

“CBS Evening News” Full Broadcast | Feb. 13, 2024

Nightly News Full Broadcast – Feb 13 | NBC News

PBS NewsHour full episode, (February 13, 2024)



—Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup—

• 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 14 2024: A Sellout of Epic Proportions | Level1 Techs






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On This Day

February 14th is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 320 days remain until the end of the year (321 in leap years).

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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, February 14, 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. 



Source: http://thunderpigblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/wx20240214.html


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