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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will remain in place across the region today through Thursday. A cold front will approach from the northwest on Friday and move east of the area on Saturday. Temperatures will remain above normal ahead of the front, becoming below normal this weekend following the frontal passage.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Areas of fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds inthe morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the east around 5 mph.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the east around 5 mph.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10ph.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds by in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the east 3 to 6 mph.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs inthe mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing tocome out of the east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Thursday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s.
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Hazards
Patchy frost will be possible in sheltered valley locations around daybreak Sunday. More widespread frost is possible across the mountains Sunday night into Monday morning.
Record Weather Events for October 2nd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 89°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2019
Lowest Temperature 24°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1974
Greatest Rainfall 7.03 inches in Highlands in 1898
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 in Highlands on 10-20-1913
Record Weather Events for October 2nd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 103°F in Wadesboro, Anson County in 2019
Lowest Temperature 19°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1974
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.04 inches in Longwood, Brunswick County in 2015
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)
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.
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Local and State News
Franklin Town Council (10-02-2023) | Macon Media
• FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, Sending Messages to all TVs, Radios and Cell Phones [Macon Media]
• North Carolina voters brace for new political maps; A shakeup in district lines expected [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• 'Government Gestapo' created in NC budget? Democratic lawmakers raise alarms about investigative committee [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• WNC Courts Receive Much-Needed Help [Smoky Mountain News]
• NC Attorney General reprimands HCA/Mission Health for providing inadequate cancer services [Asheville Citizen-Times]
---Recent News Recap---
October 02, 2023
MISSING: Officials seek public's help locating 70-year-old man last seen on foot in Macon County [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• 'A government shutdown hurts everyone:' Rep. Chuck Edwards votes in favor of short-term funding bill [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Why NC lawmakers are betting $3 billion on professors, sewers and NASCAR in new state budget [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC NAACP president earns second term with majority of vote [Raleigh News and 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
Gaetz speaks to reporters moments after his move to oust McCarthy | CNN
Trump fraud trial underway in New York | CBS Evening News
• Key Takeaways From the First Day of Trump’s Civil Fraud Trial [New York Times]
• California's Newsom picks Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein's Senate seat [Reuters]
• From Dianne Feinstein’s death to the rise of Laphonza Butler: 3 momentous days in California [Los Angeles Times]
• US expands probe into Ford engine failures to include two motors and nearly 709,000 vehicles [AP News]
• He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court [Politico]
• The Supreme Court case that could send the economy into a recession [Courthouse News Service]
International News Headlines
Migration will overwhelm Europe unless EU finds solution, says Italy's PM | BBC News
• Inside Story: What are the implications of Slovakia’s election result? [Al Jazeera]
• UN Security Council approves Haiti multinational force [DW News]
Washington Today (10/2/2023): Rep. Matt Gaetz Hints at Motion to Vacate the Chair Later This Week | C-SPAN
Global National: Oct. 2, 2023 | Scientists behind mRNA COVID-19 vaccines win Nobel Prize
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Oct. 2 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (October 02, 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.
COVID • O.C. doctor charged with defrauding COVID healthcare program of $150 million [Los Angeles Times (via Yahoo News)]
• Covid hunters: the amateur sleuths tracking the virus and its variants [The Guardian (UK)]
• Vaccine specialist Peter Hotez: scientists are ‘under attack for someone else’s political gain’ [nature]
• As Covid Infections Rise, Nursing Homes Are Still Waiting for Vaccines [New York Times]
• TWiV 1044: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1045: Less Lassa, CRISPR RNA viruses [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• The Sky This Week from September 29 to October 6: The year’s last Super Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• The annular eclipse is coming soon. Here’s where and when to see it [Astronomy Magazine]
New malaria vaccine “could save millions of lives” | BBC News
• An emergency alert test will sound Oct. 4 on all U.S. cellphones, TVs and radios. Here's what to expect. [CBS News]
• The fall of Trump: mobilization and vote switching in the 2020 presidential election [Cambridge Core]
• Elon Musk Accused a Man of Being a ‘Fed’ and Nazi, Now He’s Being Sued [Vice News]
• Copy of Defamatyion Filing [Download PDF]
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
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
The Level1 Show October 3 2023: Spy Low, Sell High | Level1 Techs
What is an Embryo Model? - DTNS 4614 Extended | Daily Tech News Show
The Earth 500,000 Years Ago | 500,000 Subscribers Special | Ben G Thomas
Fermi Paradox: Alien Civilizations Consume their Home Worlds | John Michael Godier
Raspberry Pi 5 | Explaining Computers
Coder 537: Unity Mutiny | Jupiter Broadcasting
We told you so! - NSA hacked Huawei? MS big AI data blunder, ValiDrive update | Security Now | TWiT TV
Matters Microbial #9: Colorful microbes, citizen science, and tools for all | Microbe TV
Outside of the Nerdery - Google's 25th birthday, Meta Ray-Bans, Amazon and Google antitrust trial | This Week in Google | TWiT TV
Life on Mars: The Ongoing Mystery of the Viking Life Detections | John Michael Godier
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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)
• Elon Musk takes aim at Ukraine’s Zelensky with critical meme [Jerusalem Post]
Biden says US ‘will not walk away’ from Ukraine amid budget turmoil [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 1, 2023 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Ukraine updates: Borrell visits Odesa, pledges support [DW News]
• HOUR BY HOUR - 🔴 Liveblog: Zelensky honours troops on Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces Day [France 24]
US ATACMS Missiles and Abrams Tanks: Is Russia losing Crimea? | To the point | DW News
Assault on Russian positions by Kara-Dag unit fighters | Military Mind | TVP World
No, USA Today did not report that Zelensky's delegate started a 'drunken bar brawl' in New York | France 24
Ukraine war: Rare access to hometown of frontline soldiers | BBC Newsnight
NATO chief: Ukraine fighting Russia's imperial delusions | WION Pulse
🔴 (NSFW) Combat Footage Show: F-35 Freebies, Klischiivka, POWs Not Allowed | Funker530
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or articles/video about those who support Russia
Col Douglas Macgregor Full Interview: "This Escalates The Conflict" | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Ukrainian drone strike causes blackout in Russia – governor
[Russia Today]
• Iran to supply UAVs and missiles to Russia for massive strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces[Pravda]
• EU wages undeclared war on migrants — Russia’s envoy to UN [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 89 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)
2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.
52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans.
1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
1683 – Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.
1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.[2]
1739 – The Treaty of NiÅ¡ is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War.
1789 – George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.
1792 – A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
1873 – Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.
1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
1930 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.
1932 – The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
1943 – World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
1951 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.
1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power.
1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
1962 – Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in a Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
1963 – A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.
1981 – The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.
1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
1989 – A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
1990 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1993 – An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
1995 – O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
2009 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
2013 – At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
2015 – Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
2021 – Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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