Here is the weekend news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will continue building into the Southeast today, remaining over the region the rest of the weekend and into much of next week. This will allow above normal temperatures to continue through late next week. A cold front will approach out of the west Thursday into Friday, potentially bringing rain chances back into the forecast.
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General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Widespread dense fog, mainly before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the east 3 to 7 mph.
Sunday
Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the northeast 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. East southeast wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Widespread dense fog, mainly before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through mid morning, then becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning in reasing to come out of the north around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Weather Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Record Weather Events for September 30th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 89°F in Franklin in 1954
Lowest Temperature 27°F in Franklin in 1967
Greatest Rainfall 6.53 inches in Highlands in 1936
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of September Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 98°F in Franklin on 09-04-1975
Lowest Temperature 27°F in Franklin on 09-30-1967
Greatest Rainfall 11.87 inches in Highlands on 09-29-1964
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for September 30th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 99°F in Lexington, Davidson County in 1904
Lowest Temperature 24°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1967
Greatest One-Day Rain 8.80 inches in Rosman, Transylvania County in 1964
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of September Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 108°F in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 09-25-1921
Lowest Temperature 23°F in Marion, McDowell County on 09-28-2000
Greatest Rainfall 21.00 inches in Wilmington, New Hanover County on 09-17-2018
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during August in the state)
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Saturdays in August from 11am to 1pm
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
9/23/23
11-Noon—Sonia Brooks—a talented lady who aims to keep the old folk songs popular with all ages. If you're of the Gen X generation, you probably first heard these songs when you were young.
Noon-1pm---Jay Baird—a guy who who is all Americana, getting into folk and other songs we haven’t heard in years. If you're a Baby Boomer, some of these songs you've heard as a kid.
Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!
Mountain Findings
432 Spruce Street (physical)
Highlands, North Carolina 28741
Web: MountainFindings.org
Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.
Weekend News Brief
The Franklin Panthers lost to the Pisgah Black Bears last night in Haywood County 0-35.
The Panthers fall to 2-4 for the season and 2-1 in conference play. The Panthers travel to Henderson County next week to face the North Henderson Knights in a conference game (currently 4-2 overall and 1-2 in the conference).
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panther | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Black Bears | 7 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 35 |
• El Niño forecasted to bring heavier snowfall to the Western Carolinas this winter [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Blue Ridge Parkway closures, longer airport lines? How would shutdown impact WNC? [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• As fall tourists head to the mountains, looming government shutdown brings back memories of 2018 shutdown and WNC national parks [BPR]
• New state budget includes money to feed more low-income school children [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Goldenrod gets an unjust rap as allergies flare [The Sylva Herald]
Federal government shutdown could have tough consequences on Americans | NBC News
Record rainfall swamps NYC, Tri-State | WABC-TV (New York City, NY)
Trump appeal to delay New York fraud trial denied | CBS News
• US Senator Dianne Feinstein has died [Macon Media]
• How Polarization Sent Washington Hurtling Into a Shutdown [Wall Street Journal]
• VMFAT-101 “SharpSHooters” Deactivation Ceremony • MCAS Miramar [YouTube]
• Marine Corps deactivates historic F/A-18 training squadron [Defense Visual Information Service]
• Red state social media censorship laws get Supreme Court review [Courthouse News Service]
• ‘No one is safe’: France vows action as bedbugs sweep Paris [CNN]
• White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border [The Guardian (UK)]
• Monterrey gangs: Bodies dumped in Mexico's business capital [BBC News]
• ‘All I saw were dead bodies’: Grief and anger after Pakistan bomb blasts [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 29, 2023 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Scientists are waiting longer than ever to receive a Nobel [nature]
• DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide [OS News]
• US agency sues Tesla as Black workers report “swastikas, threats, and nooses” [Ars Technica]
On This Day
September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 92 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)
489 – The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.
737 – The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.
1139 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing mass destruction and killing up to 300,000 people.
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.
1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1551 – A coup by the military establishment of Japan's ÅŒuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.
1791 – The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
1791 – France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly.
1863 РGeorges Bizet's opera Les p̻cheurs de perles, premiered in Paris.
1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1906 РThe Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coru̱a, Spain.
1907 – The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1909 – The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
1915 – World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1918 – Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeat the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka.[4]
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 – World War II: General WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
1941 – World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
1943 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
1944 – The Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.
1947 – The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
1947 – Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
1965 – Six Indonesian Army generals were assassinated by the September 30 Movement. The PKI was blamed for the latter, resulting in mass killings of suspected leftists afterwards.
1966 – Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1975 РMal̩v Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.
1978 – Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1993 – The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
2000 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
2005 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.
2009 – The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
2016 – Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
2016 – Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.
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Published at 5:00am on Satursday, September 30, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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