Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will continue today before moving off the Carolina coast tonight, with warmer temperatures expected through the early weekend. Expect rain ahead of an approaching cold front from Saturday through Sunday, with thunderstorms more likely on Sunday. As the rain ends Sunday night, colder air behind the front may produce some light snow in the North Carolina Mountains.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Showers likely, mainly between 7am and noon. Patchy fog between 8am and 2pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 59. Calm wind becoming south southeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 8pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog after 8pm. Low around 51. South southeast wind 6 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Sunday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 60. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Sunday Night
A chance of rain and snow showers before 11pm, then a slight chance of snow showers between 11pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Northwest wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 47.
Monday Night
Clear, with a low around 23.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers likely, mainly after 5pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 51. South southwest wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Areas of fog. Low around 49. South wind 9 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Sunday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 52. West southwest wind 9 to 18 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Sunday Night
A chance of rain and snow showers before 7pm, then a chance of snow showers between 7pm and 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Blustery, with a north northwest wind 20 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 40.
Monday Night
Clear, with a low around 25.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Showers likely, mainly between 7am and 1pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 3pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 57. South southeast wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog. Low around 51. South southeast wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Sunday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 59. Light and variable wind becoming north northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Sunday Night
A chance of rain and snow showers before 11pm, then a slight chance of snow showers between 11pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. North northwest wind 13 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 47.
Monday Night
Clear, with a low around 25.
Nantahala Area
Today
Showers likely, mainly before 1pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 3pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 57. South southeast wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 10pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog after 10pm. Low around 50. South wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Sunday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 54. West southwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Sunday Night
A chance of rain showers before 9pm, then a chance of snow showers between 9pm and 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 40.
Monday Night
Clear, with a low around 27.
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Hazards
Numerous showers with isolated thunderstorms will push into the North Carolina mountains overnight, ahead of an approaching cold front. Locally heavy rainfall and cloud-to-ground lightning will be the main threats, but isolated damaging wind gusts cannot be ruled out.
Showers and isolated thunderstorms will continue to pose a threat through the day Sunday, then begin to shift east Sunday evening. Snow showers are expected near the Tennessee border starting Sunday afternoon in the highest peaks, then snow levels will fall to 3500 ft by late evening. Minor snow accumulations are expected. In the mountain valleys, rapidly falling temperatures into the 20s may cause wet roads to freeze, resulting in patchy black ice early Monday morning. Also, gusty northwest winds could approach 40 to 50 mph, especially above 3500 ft.
Record Weather Events for December 9th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 75°F in Highlands in 1946
Lowest Temperature -5°F in Highlands in 1917
Greatest Rainfall 5.07 inches in Highlands in 1919
Greatest Snowfall 10.2 inches in Highlands in 2018
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of December Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 78°F in Franklin on 12-31-1951
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Highlands on 12-30-1917
Greatest Rainfall 6.25 inches in Highlands on 12-28-2018
Greatest Snowfall 12.0 inches in Franklin on 12-21-1876
Record Weather Events for December 9th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 83°F in Jefferson, Ashe County in 1943
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Banner Elk, Yancey County in 1917
Greatest Rainfall 5.07 inches in Highlands, Transylvania County in 1919
Greatest Snowfall 25.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2017
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of December Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 87°F in Edenton, Chowan County on 12-03-1922
Lowest Temperature -21°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 12-30-1917
Greatest Rainfall 7.80 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 12-29-2018
Greatest Snowfall 25.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 12-09-2017
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News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
I'm visiting every town in NC - Franklin, North Carolina | Timothy French
I'm visiting every town in NC - Highlands, North Carolina | Timothy French
• Macon County Public Health Awarded Reaccreditation Designation [Macon Media]
• During town hall, Congressman Edwards lobbies for reallocating IRS hiring funds to aid Israel [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Some NC lawmakers decide to run again, others bow out [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Women of Appalachia: Songs of Slavery and Emancipation at John C. Campbell Folk School [BPR]
• Franklin Town Council (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]
---NATIONAL---
https://youtu.be/lwpCKesZjNo?t=31 Migrant encampments surge at border as asylum process bottlenecks | ABC News
Hunter indictment is 'like a bomb' for Biden family | Fox News
• One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth [The Economist]
• U.S. payrolls rose 199,000 in November, unemployment rate falls to 3.7% [CNBC]
• GOP senator demands DOJ investigate reporter who wrote about potential Trump dictatorship [Raw Story]
• Appeals court upholds gag order on Trump in Washington case but narrows restrictions on his speech [AP News]
• A CBS reporter refusing to reveal her sources could be held in contempt [Washington Post]
• Catskills newspaper sues Delaware County over alleged First Amendment violations [Times Union]
• FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR [NBC News]
• High-speed rail projects get a $6 billion infusion of federal infrastructure money [WUTC-FM (Chattanooga, TN)]
• Jeff Bezos has now given nearly $640 million to support homeless families [Fortune Magazine]
International News Headlines
Events Shaping Europe's Political Landscape | Morning World Today | TVP World
Haiti faces a situation of 'absolute brutal violence' - UN alerts | Africa News
• Bowen: US uses veto but pressure for Gaza ceasefire is building [BBC News]
• Israel-Hamas War Day 64: IDF strikes Hezbollah, rockets fired from Gaza [Jerusalem Post]
• Navalny aides voice fears for his health after prison faint [Reuters]
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 653: Russia launches first cruise missile attack on Ukraine in two months [Euromaidan]
• Why does Venezuela claim a large part of Guyana? [DW News]
• S. Korea, U.S., Japan vow to strengthen cooperation against N.K. threat [Yonhap News Agency]
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, Dec. 8, 2023
2024 Campaign Trail - Friday, December 8th | C-SPAN
Washington Today (12-8-23): U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution calling for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Dec. 8, 2023 | Israel unleashes one its largest strikes on Hamas
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 8, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Dec 08 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (December 08, 2023)
---COVID--- How the pandemic made it difficult for Americans to separate politics from public health | PBS News Hour
The Massive Cyberattack You Never Heard About | Bloomberg Originals
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On This Day
December 9th is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 22 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
480 – Odoacer, first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia. He later establishes his political power with the co-operation of the Roman Senate.
536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flee the capital.
730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, Al-Jarrah Ibn Abdallah Al-Hakami.
1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1688 – Glorious Revolution: Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of Reading, forcing flight of James II from the country.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
1835 – Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1856 – The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.
1905 – In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
1917 – World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire.
1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
1931 – The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
1935 – Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.
1935 – Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).
1940 – World War II: Operation Compass: British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
1941 – World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan.
1941 – World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
1946 – The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
1948 – The Genocide Convention is adopted.
1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
1967 - Jim Morrison arrested on stage for disturbing the peace at the New Haven Arena, Connecticut, making him the 1st rock star to be taken into custody during a performance
1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
1969 – U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
1987 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
1992 – American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.
1996 – Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada.
2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
2012 – A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people.
2013 – At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
2016 – President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.
2016 – At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Northeastern Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.
2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
2019 – A volcano on White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, December 09, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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