Here is the weekend news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will remain over the region for the remainder of the weekend and into much of the upcoming workweek. This will allow above normal temperatures to continue through late next week. A cold front will approach out of the west on Thursday before tracking across the area sometime Friday into early Saturday. The front may bring rain chances back into the forecast, but confidence on this is low.
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General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Widespread fog, mainly before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Monday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Light winds out of the east.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the east 3 to 6 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the low to mid 50s. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Widespread fog, mainly before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Monday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 56. Calm winds.
Monday
Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Monday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Weather Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Record Weather Events for October 01st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 88°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2019
Lowest Temperature 26°F in Highlands in 1895
Greatest Rainfall 6.12 inches in Highlands in 1965
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 October Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 10-05-1954
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Highlands on 10-30-1910
Greatest Rainfall 9.91 inches in Highlands on 10-04-1954
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inHighlands on 10-20-1913
Record Weather Events for October 01st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 98°F in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 2019
Lowest Temperature 22°F in Laurel Springs, Ashe County in 1993
Greatest One-Day Rain 8.78 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1965
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of October Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 103°F in Wadesboro, Anson County on 10-03-2019
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 10-21-1952
Greatest Rainfall 12.53 inches in Lumberton, Robeson County on 10-08-2016
Greatest Snowfall 11.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on10-25-1990
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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
• How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending Sept. 28 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Judge grants preliminary injunction blocking two elements of NC’s new abortion law [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Appalachian culture comes alive at Western Carolina University's Mountain Heritage Day [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Still time to plant fall crops [Mountain Xpress]
Congress passes short-term spending bill to avoid government shutdown | CBS Evening News
• Shutdown averted: Senate clears stopgap bill with hours to spare [Politico]
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Sept. 30
PBS News Weekend full episode, Sept. 30, 2023
Global National: Sept. 30, 2023 | Canada marks 3rd annual Truth and Reconciliation day
• In U.S. Fights Over Ukraine Aid, Allies Fear Deeper Global Harm [Wall Street Journal]
• Rep. Jamaal Bowman Pulls Fire Alarm in House Office Building [New York Times]
• What the world would look like without fossil fuels [Washington Post]
• Slovakia elections: Populist Fico grabs victory [DW News]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 585 [Al Jazeera]
• Madagascar: opposition rally denied [Africa News]
• Detecting and identifying the reasons for deleted tweets before they are posted [Frontiers in Science]
• Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers [Extreme Tech]
• A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations [Ars Technica]
---Saturday Briefing---
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]
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On This Day
October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 91 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)
331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
366 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated.
959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to Eadwig.
965 – Pope John XIII is consecrated.
1553 – Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1588 – Coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia.
1730 – Ahmed III is forced to abdicate as the Ottoman sultan.
1779 – The city of Tampere, Finland (belonging to Sweden at this time) is founded by King Gustav III of Sweden.
1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 – More than a year after the Battle of Sprimont, the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) are officially annexed by Revolutionary France.
1800 – Via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain cedes Louisiana to France, which would sell the land to the United States thirty months later.
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.
1827 – Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.
1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa. It will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1832 – Texian political delegates convene at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
1861 – Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day.
1887 – Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 – Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908 – Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
1910 – A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
1918 – World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
1918 – Sayid Abdullah becomes the last Khan of Khiva.
1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
1928 – Newark Liberty International Airport opens up being the first airport in the New York City metro area.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.
1931 – Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.
1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 – World War II: After a one-month siege, German troops occupy Warsaw.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 – World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru, not knowing that she is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.
1943 – World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops enter the city.
1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
1946 – The Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea.
1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 – The People's Republic of China is established.
1953 – Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
1953 – A United States Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.
1955 – The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
1961 – East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1961 – The CTV Television Network, Canada's first private television network, is launched.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1968 – Guyana nationalizes the British Guiana Broadcasting Service, which would eventually become part of the National Communications Network, Guyana.
1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida.
1971 – The first practical CT scanner is used to diagnose a patient.
1975 – Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 – The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
1982 – EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.
1982 – Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan. On the same day, Sony released the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.
1985 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israel attacks the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia during "Operation Wooden Leg".
1987 – The 5.9 Mw Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal same-sex registered partnerships.
1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1994 – Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
2000 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the murder of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by the Israeli police in northern Israel, beginning the "October 2000 events".
2001 – Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2012 – A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
2014 – A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
2014 – A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.
2015 – A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
2015 – Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in Guatemala, killing 280 people.
2015 – The American cargo vessel SS El Faro sinks with all of its 33 crew after steaming into the eyewall of Hurricane Joaquin.
2017 – An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.
2017 – Fifty-eight people are killed and 869 others injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip in the United States; the gunman, Stephen Paddock, later commits suicide.
2018 – The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia.
2019 – The Kuopio school stabbing: one dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at Savo Vocational College in Kuopio, Finland.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, October 01, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center.
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