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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry and cooler high pressure will build over the region tonight through Friday in the wake of a departing cold front. Another cold front will arrive from the north on Saturday and settle south of the area through Sunday. The boundary will return northward as a warm front early next week, keeping the weather unsettled.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm wind in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Saturday
Showers likely, mainly before 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 60. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 36.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to10 mph early in the morning decreasing to becoming light and variable by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 29. Calm winds becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Showers likely, mainly before 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph early in the morning becoming calm by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 7 mph.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Saturday
Showers likely, mainly before 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Light winds out of the southeast.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 7 mph.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Showers likely, mainly before noon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight. >!-- https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?NC -->
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
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• Damaging 2022 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
• Atlantic hurricane season ends with 14 named storms [AP News]
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
700 PM EST Wed Nov 30 2022
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
This is the last regularly scheduled Tropical Weather Outlook of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Routine issuance of the Tropical Weather Outlook will resume on May 15, 2023. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant.
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Almanac
24 Hour Smoke Forecast
Smoke fields from fires across the southeast will be crossing the county today.
PM2.5 AQI is 25 (green) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 25 (green)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (0.6 out of 12) today with no one source being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for December 1st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 73°F in Franklin in 1962
Lowest Temperature 6°F in Highlands in 1903
Greatest Rainfall 2.00 inches in Franklin in 1878
Greatest Snowfall 3.0 inches in Highlands in 1918
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 1st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 82°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1946
Lowest Temperature -5°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1929
Greatest Rainfall 5.65 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1996
Greatest Snowfall 14.0 inches in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1974 />
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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Macon Calendar
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No events have been submitted for Macon Calendar.
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Local and State News
• Gov. Cooper outlines NC plan for more electric trucks, vans, buses [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• How to make sure a loved one is OK over the holidays (and take care of yourself) [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Strike imminent? Canton paper mill union members vote down proposed labor contract [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Schools Struggle With State-Mandated Pay Increases [Smoky Mountain News]
• Hurricane Creek fire in Pisgah National Forest hits 700 acres; 40% contained [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Brasstown Ringers 2022 Holiday Schedule [Macon Media]
• Mountain Voices Christmas Concert - December 8 at FUMC at 7 pm [Macon Media]
State Budget Details
• NC Budget Table of Contents [Google Drive (PDF)]
• NC House Bill 103: 2022 Appropriations Act [Google Drive (PDF)]
• Joint Conference Committee Report on the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2022 [Google Drive (PDF)]
• House Bill 103 Information and Voting History [NC General Assembly Website]
• Raises for state employees, preparations for recession, in proposed state budget [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
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Special Section: Russo-Ukrainian War Updates
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
(Longer videos are in the Russo-Ukraine Videos section)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 30 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for November 30th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 279 [Al Jazeera]
• LIVEBLOG: 281st day of Russian aggression against Ukraine [TVP World]
Russia may be Encircling Bakhmut, Ukraine | Funker530 Veteran Community
Timothy Snyder: Making of Modern Ukraine.Class 20. Maidan and Self-Understanding | Yale Courses
• Posts spin baseless theory about FTX, Ukraine and Democrats [Ap News]
• Ukraine Should Be Free to Hit Military Targets in Russia, Latvia Says [Yahoo! News]
• Ukraine Live Blog [Al Jazeera]
• Russia caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damages to Ukraine: Zelenskyy’s advisor [TVP World]
• Heusgen: 'Russia is playing games all over the place' [DW News]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• US considering Patriot missiles for Ukraine [Russia Today]
• Ukraine says all large thermal and hydro electric power stations damaged after attacks [Pravda ]
• Russian embassy in London draws parallel between anti-Russian propaganda, hate speech [TASS Russian News Agency]
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National and World News Roundup
• Iran Crisis Update, November 30Understanding War] [PDF for November 30th]
This reflects how ‘serious’ the Iranian protest is: Gen. Jack Keane | Fox Business
• Global Pressure On Iran Increases Incrementally As Protests Continue [Iran International]
• xxx [SOURCE]
--> Lawmakers gather for Capitol Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Washington, D.C. | PBS Newshour
China's nuclear arsenal to triple by 2035? Country to expand nuclear warheads to 1500 | WION
How China’s Biggest Protests in Decades Unfolded Over Five Days | Wall Street Journal
• Climate change: US to pay $75m to relocate tribes facing flood threat [BBC News]
• Homeland Security warns about domestic extremists praising Colorado Springs suspect [CBS News]
• House committee receives Donald Trump’s federal tax returns from IRS [CNN]
• Stocks Gain for Second Month in a Row; Dow Exits Bear Market [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ]
• Europe embarks on solar power 'revolution' to solve its energy crisis — and fight climate change [Yahoo! News]
• An Arizona County’s Refusal to Certify Election Results Could Cost GOP a House Seat [Bloomberg]
• Hungary at risk of losing billions in EU funds over rule-of-law dispute [Courthouse News Service]
• Justices delve into a trio of thorny issues in states’ challenge to federal immigration policy [SCOTUSblogE]
• Never mind, Musk says — accusation against Apple was a ‘misunderstanding’ [Politico]
Global National: Nov. 30, 2022 | Trudeau grilled again on alleged Chinese interference
Nightly News Full Broadcast (November 30th)
PBS NewsHour full episode, November 30, 2022
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County:
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 5:36pm CET, 29 November 2022, there have been 97,329,491 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,069,757 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 11 November 2022, a total of 638,658,949 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 5:36pm CET, 29 November 2022, there have been 638,175,811 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,612,970 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 23 November 2022, a total of 12,959,275,260 vaccine doses have been administered.
• Persistent alveolar type 2 dysfunction and lung structural derangement in post-acute COVID-19 [MedRxiv (PDF)]
• Effect of BNT162b2 mRNA booster vaccination on VO2max in recreational athletes: A prospective cohort study [Wiley Online Library]
• Long Covid may be ‘the next public health disaster’ — with a $3.7 trillion economic impact rivaling the Great Recession [CNBC]
• COVID-19 pandemic enters 4th year [BNO News]
• Covid evolution wipes out another antibody treatment, threatening the country’s medicine cabinet [STAT NEWS]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• Apple restricted AirDrop capabilities in China ahead of anti-government protests, leaving dissenters without key communication tool as demonstrations spread [Business Insider]
• Fusion power is 'approaching' reality thanks to a magnetic field breakthrough [Engadget]
• FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Says He Made Secret Donations to Republicans [Gizmodo]
• Yet Another Study Shows U.S. Broadband Users Are Being Ripped Off By Local Monopolies [Tech Dirt]
• DoorDash lays off 1,250 employees [CNBC]
• Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach [Bleeping Computer]
• Chrome, Defender, and Firefox 0-days linked to commercial IT firm in Spain [ARS TECHNICA]
Semi-permanent links
• Fall of Civilizations #16. Bagan - City of Temples [Fall of Civilizations Podcast]
• 25 tips to help you prepare for the 2024 total solar eclipse [Astronomy Magazine]
• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
Level1 Show - Live This Week | Level1Tech
You Don't Need to Be Big, Like Twitter, to Survive - DTNS 4405 | Daily Tech News Show
China launches three astronauts to Tiangong space station | France 24
Elon Musk’s Neuralink “Show and Tell” event | The Verge
Incredible Map That Shows The Entire Observable Universe (That You Can Explore!) | Antov Petrov
Is There a Tripropellant Rocket Engine? How Are Orbits Planned? - Deep Space Questions 21 | Scott Manley
Claudius - Conqueror of Britain Documentary | The People Profiles
What Are The Hidden Rules Of The Universe? | History of the Universe
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Russia's top attack helicopter performing poorly in Ukraine? | Binkov's Battlegrounds
Fighting over the Anton Bridge, connecting the two Dnipro's banks | Military Mind | TVP World
Germany declares Ukraine's Holodomor famine a genocide | DW News
Hundreds call Ukraine's surrender hotline for Russian soldiers | BBC News
Russia Ukraine War: NATO sends $40 bn in aid to Ukraine as it seeks more weapons from West | WION
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On This Day
December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 30 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)
800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris.
1577 – Francis Walsingham is knighted.
1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.
1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
1821 – José Núñez de Cáceres wins the independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain and names the new territory the Republic of Spanish Haiti.
1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1828 – Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1900 – Nicaragua sells canal rights to U.S. for $5 million. The canal agreement fails in March 1901. Great Britain rejects amended treaty
1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28) and thus concluding the Great Union.
1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1924 – The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, plays their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
1939 – World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.
1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1971 – Purge of Croatian Spring leaders starts in Yugoslavia at the meeting of the League of Communists at the Karađorđevo estate
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 – Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
1988 – World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
1989 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
1997 – Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky.
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
2018 – The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.
2019 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.
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Published at 3:30am on Thursday, December 01, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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