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On This Day
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GENERAL OUTLOOK
As cool high pressure moves off the East Coast to start the week, moisture will increase. Expect multiple rounds of rain starting Monday and continuing into Friday. Another cold front approaches the area at the end of the week. Temperatures will be cool early in the week and be warmer in the middle of the week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Rain, mainly after 2pm. Highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain before 8pm, then showers, mainly after 8pm. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower 40s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers, mainly before 4pm. Highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 70%.
Wednesday
Showers likely, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Rain likely, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog after 2pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 6 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain before 1am, then showers after 1am. Patchy fog. Lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers. Highs near 50. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday
Showers likely, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Rain likely, mainly between 2pm and 4pm, then showers after 4pm. Highs near 50. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain before 8pm, then showers, mainly after 8pm. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers, mainly before 4pm. Highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday
Showers likely, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Rain, mainly after 11am. Patchy fog before 2pm, then patchy fog after 4pm. Highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the east around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain before 8pm, then showers after 8pm. Patchy fog. Lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Light winds out of the east. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers. Highs near 57. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 70%.
Wednesday
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Wednesday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
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 50 (GOOD) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 50 (GOOD)
Fire and Smoke Map
Local Air Monitor
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (0.3 out of 12) today with Ragween and Grasses being the main culprit. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for December 5th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 72°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2001
Lowest Temperature 7°F in Highlands in 1899
Greatest Rainfall 3.74 inches in Highlands in 1910
Greatest Snowfall 2.0 inches in Highlands in 1901
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 5th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 85°F in Murfreesboro, Hertford County in 1978
Lowest Temperature -1°F in Laurel Springs, Ashe County in 1974
Greatest Rainfall 4.31 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1973
Greatest Snowfall 10.0 inches in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 2002 />
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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Local and State News
• Gunfire takes out power substations in Moore Co.; prompts State of emergency, curfew, closed schools [WTVD-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending Dec. 1 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Supreme Court set weigh in on 'most important case' on democracy involving NC voting maps [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Brasstown Ringers 2022 Holiday Schedule [Macon Media]
• Mountain Voices Christmas Concert - December 8 at FUMC at 7 pm [Macon Media]
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 04 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for December 4th]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 284 [Al Jazeera]
• LIVEBLOG: 284th day of Russian aggression against Ukraine [TVP World]
Winter and the War in Ukraine - Who is better prepared for winter conditions? | Perun
Russia abandons battalion tactical groups | Ukraine: The Latest | The Telegraph Podcast
Timothy Snyder: Making of Modern Ukraine.Class 20. Maidan and Self-Understanding | Yale Courses
• Ukraine war: Oil prices rise as cap on Russian crude looms [BBC News]
• Will capping the price of Russian oil end Ukraine invasion? [Al Jazeera]
• SIPRI: Ukraine war is not all good news for arms industry [DW News]
• Russia strikes civilian areas, including apartment block, in Kherson, says Kyiv [WION]
• Germans blame war for inflation, but they blame Scholz for inaction: expert [TVP World]
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective
• Withdrawal of Russian weapons is key to nuclear plant deal – UN official [Russia Today]
• Kremlin: Joe Biden's terms on talks with Putin impossible [Pravda ]
• Russian armed forces successfully advance near Artyomovsk — top brass [TASS Russian News Agency]
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National and World News Roundup
• Iran Crisis Update, December 04 Understanding War] [PDF for December 4th]
• Iran prosecutor general signals ‘morality police’ suspended [Al Jazeera]
• Iranians Ready For 3-Day Action As Regime Pulls Publicity Stunt [Iran International]
• N. Korea fires some 130 artillery shells into eastern, western 'buffer zones': S. Korean military [Yonhap News Agency]
• OPEC+ Keeps Oil Curbs Despite Russia Price Cap [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ]
US sees post-Thanksgiving surge of COVID-19, flu cases | Global News
• Emergency Declared and Curfew Ordered Following Moore Power Grid Attack [The Pilot (Southern Pines, NC)]
• Shootings at power substations cause North Carolina outages [AP News]
• FBI called to investigate firearms attacks on Duke Energy substations in North Carolina; 40K without power [Utility Dive]
How secure is America's electric grid? | 60 Minutes
• Extremists have developed ‘credible, specific plans’ to attack the US power grid, DHS says in new warning [Utility Dive]
• Four Navy sailors at same command appear to have died by suicide in less than a month [CBS News]
• Bob McGrath, original ‘Sesame Street’ cast member, dead at 90 [CNN]
• US Expedites Hypersonic Deployment As China Equips It Nuke Submarines With Missiles That Can Strike USA [Eurasian Times]
• Threats to protesters in Emmett Till rally prompt cancelation of Christmas parade in Kentucky [NBC News]
• Source of Controversy [Truth Social]
• Trump's call to suspend Constitution not a 2024 deal-breaker, leading House Republican says [ABC News]
• Musk Responds to Trump: 'The Constitution Is Greater Than Any President' [Red State]
• (Conservative Outlet) Musk Responds to Trump: 'The Constitution Is Greater Than Any President' [Red State]
• (Liberal Outlet) Trump Calls For 'Termination' Of Constitution Over Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files' Leak [Huffington Post]
Earlier
• Trump calls for ‘termination’ of election rules in Constitution to overturn 2020 election [The Hill]
• Trump Demands America Rip Up the Constitution, Make Him President [Rolling Stone via YAhoo! News]
Meet The Press Full Broadcast — Dec. 2 | NBC News
Face The Nation: Aguilar, Holder, Moynihan | CBS News
Emmanuel Macron: The 60 Minutes Interview 60 Minutes
Global National: Dec. 4, 2022 | "Tridemic" causing new health-care impacts across Canada
Nightly News Full Broadcast (December 4th)
PBS NewsHour full episode, December 04, 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 4:23pm CET, 2 December 2022, there have been 97,618,392 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,071,245 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 November 2022, a total of 645,581,549 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 4:23pm CET, 2 December 2022, there have been 640,395,651 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,618,579 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 30 November 2022, a total of 13,042,112,489 vaccine doses have been administered.
US sees post-Thanksgiving surge of COVID-19, flu cases | Global News
• Around 85% of recent Covid deaths were among people over 65. Why have so few gotten boosted? [NBC News]
• Masks Now Recommended in 12 Illinois Counties After Reaching ‘High' COVID Community Level [WMAQ-TV (Chicago, IL)]
• Boston-area COVID wastewater data spikes 88%, Massachusetts reports 5,068 COVID cases [Boston Herald]
• Molecular and cellular similarities in the brain of SARS-CoV-2 and Alzheimer’s disease individuals [BioRxiv]
• ‘We have to do a lot to help kids’: New details on learning losses during COVID-19 [Yahoo! News]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• New Zealand plans law to require Facebook, Google to pay for news [Reuters]
• Twitter's former safety chief warns Musk is moving fast and "breaking things" [NPR]
• Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China [Wall Street Journal]
• The TSA's facial recognition technology, which is currently being used at 16 major domestic airports, may go nationwide next year [Business Insider]
• French hospital suspends operations after cyber attacks [France 24]
• TWiV 960: Getting funky with Dan Wilson [Microbe TV]
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
Cat Tales | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
Uh Oh, Artemis I Experienced a Few Problems So Far, Here Are The Details | Anton Petrov
Nick on the Rocks - Giant Ripples | Central Washington University
SpaceX Raptor Engine Destroys Itself During Testing | NASA Spaceflight
SpaceX Starship Booster Fires Long Duration, Starlink GO for Expansion! | spaceXcentric
Why Meta Dropped 70% ColdFusion
The Bitcoin revolution - How it all began | DW Documentary | DW Documentary
Destination Linux 303 LIVE! | TuxDigital
This Week in Tech #904: Bon Bons and Football | TWIT TV
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Russo-Ukrainian War Videos (mostly long form)
--> Winter and the War in Ukraine - Who is better prepared for winter conditions? | Perun
Pro-Russian demonstrations in Cologne | World Today | TVP World
Will a Russian oil price cap end the invasion of Ukraine? | Inside Story
Russian defense minister meets with Lukashenko in Belarus| DW News
OPEC+ stays on with production cut of 2 million barrels per day | Latest World News | English | WION
How Ukraine Liberated Kherson - Russian Invasion | Kings and Generals
Russia's Plan to Win the War in Ukraine | The Infographics Show
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On This Day
December 5th is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 26 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)
63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.
633 – Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1408 – Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1496 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jewish "heretics" from the country.
1560 – Charles IX becomes king of France.
1578 – Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan raids Valparaiso.
1649 – The town of Raahe (Swedish: Brahestad) was founded by Count Per Brahe the Younger.
1757 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
1766 – In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
1831 – Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. Senate.
1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1895 – New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first concert.
1931 – Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow is destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.
1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1943 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
1945 – Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.
1952 – Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
1955 – E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery bus boycott.
1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958 – The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1964 – Lloyd J. Old discovers the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
1971 – Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.
1977 – Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1991 – Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.
1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
2004 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2005 – The 6.8 Mw Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2007 – Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.[8]
2013 – Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
2014 – Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion, is launched.
2017 – The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Published at 3:00am on Monday, December 05, 2022
Author: Bobby Coggins
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