Here is the weekend news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure remains in place through the weekend leading to well above normal temperatures. A cold front arrives early next week, bringing rain chances back to portions of the forecast area, with high pressure returning behind the front. Colder and well below normal temperatures by mid to late week before another warming trend.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning decreasing to light and variable in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Light and variable winds increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Light winds out of the northwest.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy fog between 8am and 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 75. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the south.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the south.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Weekend News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
• The Franklin Panthers scored 3 points against the 49 points cored by the TC Roberson Rams in Buncombe County last night. Franklin ends the regular season at 2-8 (2-4 in the conference). The Panthers end regular season 6th out of 7 in the 3A Mountain 7 Conference. Senate Bill Restores Gun Rights to Vets with Mental Illness | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Before sports betting can start in NC, a fight to define fantasy contests [WRAL Sports Fan]
• News and observer analysis shows extent of aggressive gerrymandering in new NC political maps [Raleigh News and Observer]
• NC attorney general demands 41 documents from HCA Healthcare [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
---NATIONAL---
Maine shooting suspect found dead in dumpster | WCVB-TV (Boston, MA)
Sizing Up House Speaker Johnson's Congressional Agenda | Balance of Power | Bloomberg Television
• ‘It’s over’: Robert Card’s body found [Lewsiton Sun-Journal]
• Conservatives Won the Fight for House Speaker. Did They Also Put the GOP Majority at Risk? [Wall Street Journal]
• Dow drops more than 350 points to end brutal week, S&P 500 closes in correction territory [CNBC]
International News Headlines
US forces shoot down drone over Middle East base | World News Tonight | ABC News
US-China chip war: China foreign minister visits Washington for talks | BBC News
• US CHIPS program officials visit Taiwan [Taiwan News]
• Germany: More bomb threats against schools and public sites [DW News]
• Eastern DRC: Residents flee as M23 rebels reach town of Bambo [Africa News]
Brooks and Capehart on gun policy debate after Maine mass shooting and new House speaker | PBS NewsHour
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, Oct. 27, 2023 | Washington Week PBS
Washington Today (10-27-23): Rep. Phillips (D-MN) launches presidential run, challenging Joe Biden | C-SPAN
Global National: Oct. 27, 2023 | Israel warns Palestinians of ‘expanding’ ground operations in Gaza
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Oct. 27, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Oct. 27 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (October 27, 2023)
---COVID--- TWiV 1056: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
• Chronic Fatigue and Dysautonomia following COVID-19 Vaccination Is Distinguished from Normal Vaccination Response by Altered Blood Markers [MDPI]
• COVID-19 illness severity and 2-year prevalence of physical symptoms: an observational study in Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark [The Lancet: Regional Health Europe ]
• A new Covid variant has become dominant amid slow uptake of the updated shots [NBC News (via Yahoo News)]
Science and Technology How Twitter/X has changed a year since Elon Musk’s takeover | BBC News
High-voltage physics - with David Ricketts | The Royal institution
• Everything in the Universe Fits in This One Graph. Even the Impossible Stuff [Universe Today]
• A hidden feedback loop under Antarctica’s glaciers could accelerate sea level rise, scientists find [CNN]
• Cats have nearly 300 facial expressions [Science Magazine (American Association for the Advancment of Science)]
• Jeff Bezos shows off new Moon lander design for NASA [ARS TECHNICA]
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---SCIENCE VIDEOS--- The Level1 Show October 27 2023: The Pumpking | Level1 Techs
Tech News Near Me - DTNS 4634 | Daily Tech News Show
Coin tossing is unfair, science proves it | Sabine Hossenfelder
Punycode and DNS Security | TWiT TV
Special Section: The Hamas-Israel War of 2023
🔴 (age-restricted) Israeli Ground Assault into Gaza Begins | Combat Footage Show | Funker530
Israel announces expanding ground operations against Hamas in Gaza | NBC News
Gaza goes dark and journalists battle to get information out | The Listening Post | AL Jazeera
• Israel at war: IDF launches ground invasion as war against Hamas continues [Jerusalem Post]
• Israel-Hamas war: List of key events, day 22 [Al Jazeera]
• Israel-Hamas war: Five scenarios for Gaza's future [DW News]
ukraine • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 611) [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 27, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
One step away from evacuation, they still stayed in the trenches | Military Mind | TVP World
Russia's Avdiivka Disaster - Invasion of Ukraine During the Gaza Crisis | Kings and Generals
• Ukraine updates: US aid to Kyiv hits Republican roadblock [DW News]
• Dispatches from Ukraine’s front lines: A brigade on the southern front [Al Jazeera]
• Air Force: Ukraine downs 3 Russian cruise missiles over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast [Euromaidan Press]
----------UKRAINE VIDEOS------------ Ukraine Conflict (20231026: Full Frontline Update | ATP Geopolitics
Day 611: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
From Russia to Ukraine: FRANCE 24 report on the one border crossing point | FRANCE 24 English
ATACMS Are In Ukraine. Will They Break Russian Logistics? [Mapped] | Good Times Bad Times
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