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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will bring fall-like weather conditions to the region through the first half of the upcoming weekend. Moisture returns Saturday night into Sunday as a cold front approaches from the northwest, with showers and thunderstorms possible along and ahead of the front. The cold front will move east on Sunday night, with dry weather returning by Monday and persisting most of next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
A slight chance of rain between noon and 2pm, then a chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.
Saturday Night
A chance of showers before 8pm, then a chance of rain after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the the upper 50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. Chance of rain is 40%.
Sunday
A chance of rain before 9am, then a chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain is 50%.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the south in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Saturday
A slight chance of rain between 11am and 2pm, then a chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.
Saturday Night
A chance of showers before 1am, then a chance of rain after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday
A chance of rain and thunderstorms before 1pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Chance of rain is 30%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
A slight chance of rain between 11am and 2pm, then a chance of showers after 2pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.
Saturday Night
A chance of rain before 10pm, then a chance of showers between 10pm and midnight, then a chance of rain after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the the upper 50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday
A chance of rain before 9am, then a chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 50%.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Nantahala Area
Today
Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the the upper 50s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
A 50 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the the upper 50s. Light winds out of the south. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday
A chance of rain before 9am, then a chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs near 69. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 50%.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
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Local and State News
NC residents speak out against proposed casinos (09-05-2023) | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• NC Democrats slam Republicans over casinos and budget delay, propose new compromise [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• High hopes hindered: Advocates navigate rocky road to medical marijuana in North Carolina [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Barrett drops out of Maggie Valley race after residency challenge filed [Smoky Mounhtain News]
• NC Speaker Moore questions UNC being a gun-free zone after second lockdown in weeks [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Charlotte City Council likely violated NC meetings law with manager raise, attorneys say [Charlotte Observer]
---NORTH CAROLINA BUDGET PROCESS---
• HB259 NC House Bill Budget Substitute [PDF Download (640 pages)]
Proposed State Budget for 2023-2025 [Download PDF]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners March 2023 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
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National and World News Roundup
Inside the World’s Largest Cargo Shipping Bottleneck Today | WSJ
Danelo Cavalcante: U.S. Marshal details capture of escaped killer in Pennsylvania | LiveNOW from FOX
UAW President Shawn Fain speaks outside strike at Michigan Assembly Plant | WJBK-TV (Detriot, MI)
• Hypersonic Missiles Are Game-Changers, and America Doesn’t Have Them [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]
• U.A.W. Goes on Strike Against Detroit’s Big 3 Automakers [NewYork Times]
• Double blow of inquiry and indictment create tough stretch for Biden [Washington Post]
• Zelenskyy to visit Washington after U.N. appearance [Politico]
• Supreme Court temporarily blocks limits on White House communication with social media firms [Courthouse News Service]
International News Headlines
• Russia and China Look at the Future of War [Institute for the Study of War]
Putin’s top 3 lies: from Ukraine to the Second World War | Defence in Depth | The Telegraph
Catastrophic flooding sparks renewed scrutiny of Libya's divided government | PBS NewsHour
• Natural disaster or man-made, why was Libya so vulnerable to floods? [Al Jazeera]
• Libya buries thousands in mass graves after flood, mayor says death toll could triple [Africa News]
• Taiwan tells Elon Musk it is 'not for sale' [BBC News]
• Can India mediate the conflict between Russia and the West? [DW News]
• Britain, France, and Germany to retain ballistic missile sanctions on Iran [TVP World]
Washington Today (9-14-23): No House GOP gov't funding deal; Hunter Biden indicted on gun charges | C-SPAN
--> Global National: Sep. 14, 2023 | Fears arise deaths in Libya floods could reach 20,000
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - September 14
PBS NewsHour full episode, (September 14, 2023)
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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:
Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Macon County Public Health will stop publishing weekly COVID updates but will continue to monitor local case levels and trends. In the event that case counts increase significantly, MCPH will notify the public and resume weekly COVID updates.
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 June 2023, a total of 668,882,018 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 770,085,713 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,956,173 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 August 2023, a total of 13,499,983,736 vaccine doses have been administered.
Moderna CEO: Covid is not going away | CNBC Television
• The off-patent drug that could protect us from future COVID-19 variants [University of Cambridge]
• COVID, RSV and influenza likely to impact healthcare system this year: CDC [ABC News (via Yahoo News)]
• CDC Recommends Updated COVID-19 Vaccine for Fall/Winter Virus Season [CDC Newsroom]
• TWiV 1036: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1037: Antibodies, the good (CoV), the bad (Ad), the beautiful [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• The Sky This Week from September 8 to 15: The Moon, Venus, and the bees [Astronomy Magazine]
• Scientists call fraud on supposed extraterrestrials presented to Mexican Congress [AP News]
• Comet Nishimura is brightening and moving fast: See it now! [Astronomy Magazine]
Study Completely Refutes Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis | Antov Petrov
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report | NASA
• To Get Kids Interested in Science, We Have to Let Them Do Science [Scientific American]
• Modification of Firearm Law-Firearm Injury Association by Economic Disadvantage [American Journal of Preventive Medicine ]
• Thousands sign up to experience magic mushrooms as Oregon’s novel psilocybin experiment takes off [AP News]
• WhatsApp explores ads in chat app as Meta seeks revenue boost [Financial Times]
• X agrees to negotiate with laid-off employees after 2,000 arbitration demands [ARS TECHNICA]
• Z-Library returns, aims to avoid seizures by giving each user a secret URL [ARS TECHNICA]
Evergreen Links
• Red Dead Online player bids farewell to Google Stadia save by releasing horse they named after their departed daughter [Games Radar]
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 69 - Twilight of the Æsir
Hardcore History: Addendum EP26 Dig This! | Dan Carlin
• 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]
How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Cinetimes]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
The Level1 Show September 15 2023: Green Pools and Ham | Level1 Techs
Chromebooks Boot Faster Than a Shower - DTNS 4604 | Daily Tech News Show
JWST has made the "Crisis in Cosmology" WORSE (AGAIN) | Night Sky News Sep 2023 | Dr Becky
A Big Problem with Modern Science Communication | Fraser Cain
China's 7nm Semiconductor Breakthrough | Asianometry
What will it take to control AI? With Yuval Noah Harari and Mustafa Suleyman | The Economist
Apple Event - September 12 | Apple
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Civilization: Is the West History? | Episode 2: Science | BBC Select
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
Ukraine attacks shipyard in Russia-controlled Crimea with cruise missiles, Moscow says | NBC News
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 568 [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 13, 2023 [Institute for the Study of War]
• British cruise missiles were used in significant Ukrainian attack on Russian submarine [Sky News]
• Ukraine liveblog updates: Kyiv, Moscow exchange volley of drones [DW News]
• Ukraine war: Romanians told to shelter from Russian drones [BBC News]
• ‘You will be provided with everything you need’: How Ukraine tries to fuel Russian defections [France 24]
• Vladimir Putin accepts Kim Jong Un invitation to North Korea [Al Jazeera]
Russian submarine hit in Ukrainian missile strike on Black Sea fleet | Ukraine: The Latest Podcast
Sevastopol: Ukraine strike on the port destroys two Russian Black Sea fleet vessels | Rock Rachon | TVP World
Ukraine’s counteroffensive: Is North Korea bolstering Russia’s military? | To the point | DW News
How Skynex Annihilates Russian Drones in Ukraine | Interesting Engineering
Highly technical and highly dangerous: Inside Ukraine's drone war | ABC News
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or articles/video about those who support Russia
Col Douglas Macgregor: The Russians Are Breaking Through | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Musk gave control of Starlink to Pentagon – biographer [Russia Today]
• Ukraine used warplanes to strike Sevastopol [Pravda]
• Russian diplomat slams US for presenting Russia-DPRK dialogue as factor of instability [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 107 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)
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.
1530 – Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church 1644–1912.
1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1588 – The so-called "Invincible Armada" sent by Catholic King Philip II of Spain to overthrow Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England has been handed a crushing defeat in the English Channel.
1762 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.
1795 – Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
1812 – The Grande Armée under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1821 – The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia).
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
1915 – New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1918 – World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
1948 – The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad, Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo.
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1950 – Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.
1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1954 – Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch.
1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 – Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1971 – The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 – The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).
1978 – Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1995 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.
2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.
2001 – During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
2011 – Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales, UK.
2017 – The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.
2020 – Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, September 14, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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