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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Seasonably warm and dry weather will prevail through at least Wednesday. Low pressure moves across northern Florida Wednesday night to the South Carolina coast on Thursday. This low pressure will bring rain to areas mainly along and south of Interstate 85. Expect showers across our region Friday and Friday night ahead of a cold front then cooler temperatures late in the weekend.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 40s. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
A slight chance of showers between midnight and 3am, then a chance of rain after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. Chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday
A chance of rain before 11am, then a chance of showers, then a chance of rain after noon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers between 11pm and 4am, then a chance of rain after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph shifting to come out of the southeast after midnight. Chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday
A chance of rain before 10am, then a chance of showers after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs near 60. Chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of rain before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Light winds out of the north.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the south 3 to 6 mph.
Thursday
A chance of rain before 11am, then a chance of showers between 11am and 4pm, then a chance of rain after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 40s. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
A slight chance of showers before 3am, then a slight chance of rain after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 20%.
Thursday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly between 8am and 10am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today and tonight.
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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)
10/7/23
Dave Stewart & Tim Lynch--This week don’t miss the many talents of Bill Peterson & Dave Stewart! Dave heads up a Songwriter’s group in Franklin and is involved in many groups. He’s a multi-instrumentalist with a melodic voice on his own creations as well as covers for many in the folk, pop/rock & other genres. Tim will be making his debut at Frog Quarters this week.
10/14/23
Charley Simmons & Paul Linser—Finger-Style Picking Champion in 3 states, the Frog is welcoming once again Charley! Charley has created some heartfelt songs based on his life’s experience. On many of his songs, you’ll swear you’re sitting on the prairie around a campfire just enjoying the music. And, Paul Linser takes an hour of the time. Enjoy his finger-style picking and sweet tenor voice on his ballads.
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.
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Local and State News
Governor Cooper to lead trip to Japan | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Suspect arrested after allegedly shooting victim in front of deputy [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• NC prisons, struggling to hire officers, look for tablets to help keep the peace [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Waynesville proclaims 'Fred Hall Week' [Smoky Mountain News]
---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
NSC spokesman says Iran 'complicit' in Hamas terror but no evidence it helped plan attack | PBS NewsHour
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he will run for president as an independent | Associated Press
• Oil Prices, Defense Stocks Rise as Israel-Hamas Conflict Rattles Markets
Havens like gold and global bonds jump; airline stocks slide [Wall Street Journal]
• Special Counsel Interviewed Biden About Classified Documents
Robert Hur, the special counsel appointed to investigate how sensitive material ended up at the home and office of President Biden, met with the president over the past two days [New York Times]
• Feds say Trump misled judge to get Mar-a-Lago trial delay
Claims about discovery delays in the Mar-a-Lago case are "inaccurate or incomplete," federal prosecutors told the court Monday [Courthouse news Service]
• McCarthy won’t rule out return to speakership after Israel attacks [Politico]
• Professor awarded Nobel economics prize for advancing the understanding of workplace gender gap [NBC News]
• Newsom signs bill to make California first state in nation to ban “toxic” food additives [Los Angeles Times]
International News Headlines
'Unpunished evil grows': Russia may be implicated in Hamas attacks | Ukraine: The Latest Podcast | The Telegraph (UK)
Why is Hamas attacking Israel -- and why now? | CBS News
Netanyahu: Israel's response to Hamas attacks will "change the Middle East" | DW News
• Israel at War: Day 3 of Operation Swords of Iron [Jerusalem Post]
• Liveblog: Israel PM warns Gaza action only just begun as Hamas threatens hostages[BBC News]
• Israel’s Hostage Crisis Deepens With Execution Threat
Palestinian group Hamas captured more than 100 prisoners during assault in southern Israel, complicating Tel Aviv’s military retaliation [Wall Street Journal]
• How prepared is Taiwan for a war with China? [Al Jazeera]
• Concerns over N. Korean artillery threats renew after Hamas rocket attack on Israel [Yonhap News Agency]
Gen. Mark Milley: The 60 Minutes Interview | 60 Minutes
Rachel Maddow on "Prequel" and fascism in America | CBS Sunday Morning
Washington Today (10/09/2023): Israel orders siege; Hamas threatens hostages | C-SPAN
Global National: Oct. 9, 2023 | Israel orders "complete siege" of Gaza as crisis escalates
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Oct. 9 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (October 09, 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 TWiV 1051: Like SARS-CoV-2 in the headlights | Microbe TV
• Florida health officials must release 3 years of COVID data, settlement says [ WFLA-TV (Tampa, FL) ]
• Unvaccinated people who recover from Covid-19 at higher risk of heart complications: Study [ Straits Times (Singapore) ]
• The New Normal: Delayed Peak SARS-CoV-2 Viral Loads Relative to Symptom Onset and Implications for COVID-19 Testing Programs [ Clinical Infectious Diseases]
• TWiV 1048: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1049: Long COVID’s book of homeostatic cats [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]
Attosecond Lasers (2023 Nobel Prize in Physics) | Sixty Symbols
• X CEO Linda Yaccarino drops out of the WSJ Tech Live conference [The Verge]
• Net neutrality’s court fate depends on whether broadband is “telecommunications” [ARS TECHNICA]
• A Swedish company is making flat-pack cars – but it’s not the one you think [CNN]
• Amazon takes on Starlink with satellite internet launch [Semafor]
• X’s new control lets only verified accounts reply to a post [TechCrunch]
• Complex Three-Dimensional Microscale Structures for Quantum Sensing Applications [ACS publications]
• 23andMe leaks data on over a million users, DNA info remains safe[TechRadarPro]
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 October 10 2023: Be Vewwy Quiet, I'm Hunting Root Access | Level1 Techs
Wait an Attosecond!!! - DTNS 4619 | Daily Tech News Show
Open Space October 9th 2023: Live QA with Fraser | Fraser Cain
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Study Reveals Incredible 3D Images of the Mysterious Cosmic Web | Antov Petrov
New UFO "Evidence" vs. SCIENCE | Kyle Hill
Archaeologists discover 476,000 year old structure, thought to be oldest known wooden structure ... | KSAT-TV (San Antonio, TX)
The Extinction of the Alien Machines | John Michael Godier
Study Claims Discovery of a Cosmic String Creating a Galactic Mirror | Anton Petrov
The DEADLIEST Pattern in Nature | Gutsick Gibbon
Quantum Computing with Light: The Breakthrough? | Sabine Hossenfelder
The Sun & Eclipses | Discovery Files Podcast | National Science Foundation
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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)
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 594 [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 9, 2023 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Ukraine's female soldiers complain of discrimination [DW News]
AS IT HAPPENED Liveblog: Ukraine expects 'record' number of drone attacks this winter [France 24]
• Ukraine dam: Rebuilding shattered lives after Ukraine’s dam collapse [BBC News]
Russia increases military spending | Eastern Express | TVP World
Ukraine in focus as World Bank and IMF meet in Marrakech | DW News
Why North Korea is Preparing to Attack Ukraine Next | RealLifeLore
Ukraine's Alternate Win Condition: Inside the Gamble on the War of Attrition | William Spaniel
How F-16 Fighter Jets Dominate the Sky in Ukraine | Task and Purpose
Russia wages a secret war | Jon Sweet and Peter Duran | TVP World
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or articles/video about those who support Russia
Col Douglas Macgregor: The Russians Press On And Take Odessa | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• White House hopes to include Ukraine in Israeli aid package – media [Russia Today]
• Russian artillerymen annihilate SUV with senior officers of Ukrainian military command [Pravda]
• Lavrov views latest NATO drills as unprecedented since Cold War era [TASS Russian News Agency]
On This Day
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 82 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)
680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
1492 – The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny.
1575 – Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1580 – Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.
1631 – Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.
1760 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.
1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
1814 – War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.
1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
1868 – The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
1903 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
1911 – The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
1918 – RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.
1920 – The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1933 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 – In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
1938 – Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
1945 – The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.
1954 – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.
1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
1957 – The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1963 – The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
1967 – The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
1970 – Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec.
1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1979 – The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland.
1980 – The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
1980 – The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
1985 – US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
1986 – A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
1997 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
1998 – A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
2002 – Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
2007 – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.
2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.
2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
2015 – Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.
2018 – Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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