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OUTLOOK
Moisture will build back into the region today, as a weak warm front lifts across the Carolinas. An active cold front will cross the forecast area on Saturday afternoon, bringing a wetting rain, before dry continental air fills in behind it, keeping conditions dry through midweek.
**Local Alert**
Macon County Public Health Hosting One-Time Vaccine Clinic for School Required Vaccinations
Macon County Public Health will be offering a one-time drive-thru vaccine clinic for students who need the TDap and/or Menactra (meningococcal) vaccines which are required for NC public school students in 7th grade or aged 12 years old (whichever comes first) as well as booster vaccinations in the 12th grade.
The clinic will be held on Monday, December 13th, 2021 from 2:00 pm to 4:00pm, a parent or guardian must be present to consent to the vaccine and appointments are required.
To schedule an appointment during this clinic, call 828-349-2081. Please bring a copy of your child’s insurance, Medicaid, or Healthy Choice card, so your insurance can be filed for the vaccinations. If your child is uninsured, their vaccinations may be covered through the state.
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Sunday Night
Franklin area
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog before 2pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers likely, mainly between 11pm and 4am, then rain likely after 4am. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
Rain before 11am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly after 11am. Highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the south wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 55.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows around 30.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A 50 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers, mainly after 10pm. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Saturday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a slight chance of showers between 9pm and 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 30%.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows around freezing.
Otto area
Today
A 50 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog before 2pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers likely before 4am, then rain, mainly after 4am. Patchy fog. Low in the lower 50s. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
Rain before 11am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly after 11am. Highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 55.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows around 30.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers likely before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms before midafternoon, then a chance of showers. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs near 60. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then showers likely between midnight and 4am, then rain likely after 4am. Patchy fog before midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday
Rain before 11am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly after 11am. Highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of thesouthwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 50.
Sunday Night
Clear, with lows around freezing.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today. A strong cold front will cross the region Saturday. Thunderstorms will develop ahead of the front and some of these storms may reach strong or even severe levels.
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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
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (0.4 out of 12) today with mixed traces being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for December 10th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 68°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2007
lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands in 1917
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 3.40 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1952
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 6.8 inches in Highlands in 2017
Record weather events for December in Macon County
Highest Temperature 78°F in Franklin on Dec 31, 1951
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Highlands on Dec 30, 1917
Greatest Rainfall 6.00 inches in Highlands on Dec 14, 1901
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 12.0 inches in Franklin on Dec 21, 1876
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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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 tickets, see [GSMR.com]
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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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 15, 2021]
• Brasstown Ringers to Perform Christmas Concert Series [Macon Media]
• Buncombe County authorizes nearly $1.7M in pandemic funding for economic development [Mountain Xpress]
• Macon uses rescue funds to increase employee pay [Smoky Mountain News]
• Jackson County leaders proclaim December 10 as “Darrell Woodard Day of Service” [The Southern Scoop]
• Covid-19 Cases In North Carolina Tick Up 78% In 2 Weeks [WTVD-TV]
• Dillsboro man describes what happened the night a car crashed into his home [WLOS-TV]
• Election delay scrambles NC campaigns. How could it change candidates’ strategies? [The News and Observer]
• Filing Opens for the 2022 Elections [Macon Media]
Filing for the March 2022 Primary Suspended, New Primary Date Set for May 17, 2022
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended candidate filing for all offices for the 2022 primary election. This includes filing for rescheduled municipal contests, and any separate filing period in January for those contests. The Supreme Court also pushed the date of the primary and rescheduled municipal elections back more than two months – to Tuesday, May 17, 2022. It had been scheduled for March 8.
Read order: [N.C. Supreme Court Order No. 413P21 (PDF)]
For any candidate whose filing has been accepted by the State Board of Elections or any county board of elections, that candidate “will be deemed to have filed for the same office” in the May primary, subject to any court rulings that would impact that candidate’s eligibility, according to the Supreme Court order. Those candidates would be able to withdraw their candidacy during the new filing period. Any individual who withdraws their candidacy is free to file for any other office for which they are eligible during the reopened filing period.
Dates for a new filing period have not been set. Candidate filing had begun on Monday at the N.C. State Fairgrounds for state- and federal-level contests and at all 100 county boards of elections for local contests. As of Wednesday evening, more than 1,400 candidates had filed statewide.
• Flags Lowered to Half-Staff to Honor Bob Dole [Macon Media]
• Cooper vetoes election bill that would end grace period for NC’s mail-in ballots [News and Observer/a>]
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National and World News Roundup
Texas High School Band Spreads Holiday Cheer After Tragic Accident
Bushcraft Bear: La Palma Volcano Report for December 9th, 2021
Senator Bob Dole Casket Arrival & Memorial Service at U.S. Capitol
• Inflation Near 40-Year High Shocks Americans, Spooks Washington [Yahoo! Finance]
• Biden is delivering the fastest economic recovery in history. Why hasn't anyone noticed? [The Hill]
• Judge OKs settlement between journalists, Oakland police over public records backlog [Courthouse News Service]
• Senate Clears Last Hurdle to Raising Debt Ceiling [New York Times]
• The next recession: Here’s when the ‘everything bubble’ will burst [Yahoo! News]
• Here’s Why You Aren’t Allowed to Watch the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial [Foundation for Economic Freedom]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - December 9th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Full Episode December 9th, 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]
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
World...694,484 known new cases in 24 hours 266,504,411 known cumulative cases, 5,268,649 known deaths and 7,952,750,402 vaccine doses have been administered. USA......190,353 known new cases in 24 hours 49,982,584 known cumulative cases, 783,435 known deaths and 453,084,481 vaccine doses administered • 1 in 10 Americans say the COVID vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs [NPR]
• The US is undercounting COVID deaths, researchers say. Now they have a tool to figure out why. [USA Today]
• COVID Booster Cuts Death Rate by 90%, Israeli Study Finds [US News and World Report]
• Long covid is destroying careers, leaving economic distress in its wake [Washington Post]
• Omicron Four Times More Transmissible Than Delta in New Study [Bloomberg]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
Level1 News December 10: Remove Snakes From Your Home With This One Weird Trick
Kickstart My Open Blockchain - DTNS 4168
• Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening [Electronic Frontier Foundation]
• Microsoft Seizes Domains Used by a Chinese Hacking Group [WIRED]
• How the Apple car could look, based on patents [Mashable]
'Tesla as the World’s Biggest Robot Company:' Elon Musk on AI and U.S. Innovation | WSJ
• Solar farms are now starting to replace golf courses [ZME Science]
• Citizen scientists find young-Jupiter-like object missed by previous exoplanet searches [Sceince Daily]
• Cordkillers 387 - VCR and Chill [Cordkillers]
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On This Day
December 10th is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 21 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)
1041 – The adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.
1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
1652 – Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.
1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter.
1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
1877 – Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.
1896 – Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
1902 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field.
1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students, protesting against the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected, clash with 400 police officers.
1909 – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1932 – Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.
1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
1942 – World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.
1948 – The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1963 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
1963 – An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.
1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
1978 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 – Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
1983 – Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
1984 – United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.
1989 – Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
1994 – Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
1995 – The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord.
1996 – The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.
1999 – Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election.
2005 – Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes at Port Harcourt International Airport in Nigeria, killing 108 people.
2014 – Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein is killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.
2015 – Rojava conflict: The Syrian Democratic Council is established in Dêrik, forming the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria.
2016 – Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.
2017 – ISIL is defeated in Iraq.
2019 – The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, December 10, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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