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OUTLOOK
Dry, peaceful weather will continue through Thanksgiving. A moisture starved cold front may bring showers and high elevation snow to the region Thursday night into early Friday. A generally dry and cool northwest flow pattern sets up this weekend and continues into next week.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 15, 2021]
At a Special Called Meeting, the Macon County Board of Education voted 5-0 to use a portion of ESSER Funding for employee bonuses in December 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Full-time employees will receive $1,500 and part-time employees will receive $750. Video below.
Macon County Board of Education (11-22-2021)
• Town of Franklin Welcomes Holiday Season with Winter Wonderland [Macon Media]
• Brasstown Ringers to Perform Christmas Concert Series [Macon Media]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s. Calm winds.
Thanksgiving Day
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Showers likely, mainly between 10pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Calm winds becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday
A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 8am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-20s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-40s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Light and variable winds.
Thanksgiving Day
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph.
Thursday Night
Showers likely, mainly between 10pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday
A chance of rain and snow showers, mainly before 7am. Sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-20s.
Otto area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Calm winds on the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Calm winds.
Thanksgiving Day
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Showers likely, mainly between 10pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday
A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 9am. Sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Friday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid-20s.
Nantahala area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Calm winds.
Thanksgiving Day
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Showers likely, mainly between 9pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Light and variable winds becoming northwest around 6 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of snow showers, mainly before 7am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the northwest around 5 to 10 mph.
Friday Night
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Relative humidity will drop below 30% again thuis afternoon, making it potentially hazardous for outsoor burning. Please put off any outdoor burning until after we get a substantial rain event.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
100 AM EST Wed Nov 24 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
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Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the extreme upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the extreme upper range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (0.4 out of 12) today with Ragweed being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.8 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for November 24th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 77°F in Franklin in 1973
Lowsest Temperature 3°F in Highlands in 1970
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.56 inches in Highlands in 1983
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 4.0 inches in Highlands in 1981
Record Weather Events for November (1872-2017)
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Nov 4, 2003
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands on Nov 25, 1950
Greatest Rainfall 4.69 inches in Highlands on Nov 29, 1914
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands on Nov 28, 1922
Record Weather Events for November 1st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Maysville, Onslow County in 2009
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1913
Greatest Rainfall 5.08 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1969
Greatest Snowfall 13.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
Record Weather Events for November in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Goldsboro, Wayne County on 11-09-1900
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-25-1950
Greatest Rainfall 8.15 inches in Idlewild, Ashe County on 11-06-1977
Greatest Snowfall 18.00 in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-04-1930
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
THE POLAR EXPRESS™ Train Ride
THE POLAR EXPRESS™ with the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad is back in 2021! The 1¼ hour round-trip passenger excursion comes to life as the train departs the Bryson City depot for a journey through the quiet wilderness for a special visit at the North Pole. Set to the sounds of the motion picture soundtrack, guests on board will enjoy warm cocoa and a treat while listening and reading along with the magical story. Children’s faces show the magic of the season when the train arrives at the North Pole to find Santa Claus waiting. Santa will board THE POLAR EXPRESS™, greeting each child and presenting them with a special gift as in the story, their own silver sleigh bell. Christmas carols will be sung as they return back to the Bryson City Depot. For ticksts, see [GSMR.com]
COLD Turkey 5K & Little Turkeys Fun Run (ALL AGES) 2021
This year's Cold Turkey will be a benefit for Macon County Special Olympics
Gobble! Gobble! Join others for Franklin, NC's annual Cold Turkey 5K Run/Walk & Little Turkeys FUN! Run/Walk on THANKSGIVING DAY (2021)
Race day registration begins at 8:00AM
Little Turkeys FUN! Run/Walk (10-U) starts at 9AM
Cold Turkey 5K starts at 9:30AM
Dillsboro Lights & Luminaries
Adapted from an old Scandinavian custom of lighting the way for the Christ child, more than 2,500 candles in small white bags line the streets and every storefront is aglow with Christmas lights and decorations. Shopkeepers and restaurants are open late. See Santa and Mrs. Claus as they ride through town in their pickup truck. Write a letter to Santa and drop it off at his special mailbox. Live music on Front Street. For more information, see [Visit Dillsboro]
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National and World News Roundup
President Biden Delivers Remarks on the Economy and Lowering Prices for the American People
• To combat sky-high gas, energy prices, US to tap oil reserves [Courthouse News Service]
• Jury Finds Rally Organizers Responsible for Charlottesville Violence [New York Times]
Suspect in Wisconsin parade attack charged with homicide, court sets bail at $5 million
Level1 News November 24 2021: Why Can’t I Hold All These Keyboard Characters
Bushcraft Bear reports from the La Palma Volanic Eruption (Nov 23, 2021)
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission
NASA Launches DART Mission In First Asteroid Deflection Test
• U.S. judge lets Ghislaine Maxwell call 'false memories' expert to testify at trial [CTV News]
• Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Federal judge to question more than 200 potential jurors [ABC News]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - November 23rd, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode November 23rd, 2021
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COVID-19 News and Updates
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]
• Covid misinformation spreads because so many Americans are awful at math [Washington Post]
• A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine [Amazon (Link to Kindle Edition)]
• Do vaccines protect against long COVID? What the data say [Nature]
• Effectiveness of an inactivated virus-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, BBV152, in India: a test-negative, case-control study [The Lancet]
• The Impact of Vitamin D Level on COVID-19 Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [US National Library of Medicine]
• Antibody titers before and after booster doses of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in healthy adults [MedRxiv]
• Seven doctors contract Covid after attending Florida anti-vaccine summit [The Guardian]
• The real risk of heart inflammation to kids is from COVID-19—not the vaccine [National Geographic]
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On This Day
November 24th is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 37 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
1227 – Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.
1248 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.
1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1750 – Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
1832 – South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.
1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
1906 – A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
1917 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
1922 – Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
1929 – The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1940 – World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
1943 – World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
1962 – Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
1962 – The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
1965 – Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
1976 – The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
1989 – After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
1992 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.
2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
2015 – A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
2015 – A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.
2015 – An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
2016 – The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.
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Published at 7:00am on Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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