Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will continue over our area through the weekend and into the early part of next week. Temperatures will steadily warm to above normal values through this period. A cold front will approach the region from the northwest by mid-week but likely stall before crossing the area. This should permit temperatures to reach some 10 to 15 degrees above normal for Wednesday and Thursday. Any precipitation chances look very small through next Thursday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out if the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Light winds out of the west.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out if the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Light and variable winds.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today. Since yesterday's hard freeze ended the growing season, there will be no more freeze watcheds or warnings issued until next spring.
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Holiday Open House at Franklin Office Supply
Franklin Office Supply is holding an open house today from 9am to 7pm at their office in the Riverwalk Shopping Center on the Highlands Road. It is located between Papa Johns Pizza and 3H Thrift Shop. Learn more at their event page on Facebook [LINK]
Fall Festival Fundraiser by West Macon Fire and Rescue
West Macon Fire and Rescue is holding a fundraiser this Saturday from 2pm to 6pm with games and live music, multiple raffles. A BBQ meal will be available beginningat 4pm. Learn more at their event page on Facebook [LINK]
November 4th—THE JIM AUSTIN CLASSIC COUNTRY BAND—The Band that “packs the house”, this group of guys have it all covered when it comes to Classic Country. We welcome new member, Gary Gibson to the band!
November 11th--BARRY ROMA—Classic love songs by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Roy Orbison, Johnny Mathis & more. You’ll love hearing Barry and his beautiful, baritone voice. You’ll swear you’re back on that date, back decades ago!
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!
Record Weather Events for November 3rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 82°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2003
Lowest Temperature 7°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1954
Greatest Rainfall 3.78 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1948
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inches in Highlands in 1999
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of November Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 11-04-2003
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands on 11-25-1950
Greatest Rainfall 4.69 inches in Highlands on 11-29-1914
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands on 11-28-1922
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Hilda)
Record Weather Events for November 3rd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 89°F in High Point, Guilford County in 19743
Lowest Temperature 7°F in Coweeta, Macon County in 1954
Greatest Rainfall 5.05 inches in Edenton, Chowan County in 1947
Greatest Snowfall 3.0 inches in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1999
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of November Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 89°F in High Point, Guilford County on 11-04-1974
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County on 11-15-1969
Greatest Rainfall 9.70 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 11-19-2003
Greatest Snowfall 13.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 11-01-2014
News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
• Meeting Agenda: Franklin Town Council November 06, 2023 [Macon Media ]
New courtroom tech aims to streamline North Carolina court proceedings | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Severe drought quadruples in North Carolina, now spread across 12 western counties (video and article) [WLOS-TV (Raleigh, NC) ]
• 11-mile section of Blue Ridge Parkway closed due to ice in tunnels, reopening TBD [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Half of Western North Carolina mayoral candidates run unopposed [BPR]
• NC GOP House Speaker Tim Moore’s adviser confirms he’ll run for Congress [Raleigh News and observer]
• Highlands-Cashiers Health taps Muir for top leadership spot [The Sylva Herald and Ruralite]
---NATIONAL---
• Sam Bankman-Fried Is Convicted of Fraud in FTX Collapse [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]
• Migrant caravan heading through Mexico to US grows in numbers [BBC News]
• U.S. House passes Republicans‘ Israel aid bill, but it likely to fall through in Senate vote [TVP World]
• Court likely to reject “Trump too small” trademark claim [SCOTUSblog]
• Eric Trump says he ‘never had anything to do’ with Donald Trump’s financial statements; his emails suggest otherwise [Courthouse News Service]
• Biden weighs border deal — altering asylum law for Ukraine aid [Politico]
International News Headlines
• Turkey: Arrest of three prominent reporters stokes free-speech concerns [TVP World]
• North Korea confirms it is closing some diplomatic missions [AP News (Via Yahoo News)]
• N. Korea slams U.S. test launch of Minuteman III ICBM [Yonhap News Agency]
• Colombia to cull, sterilize Pablo Escobar's hippos [DW News]
• Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update, November 2, 2023 [Institute for the Study of War]
• UN says 'horrible suffering' in Sudan only growing as more people are displaced [France 24]
• Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says world should care more about Taiwan [Taiwan News ]
Washington Today (11-2-23): House passes $14B for Israel & $14B in IRS cuts despite WH veto threat | C-SPAN
Global National: Nov. 2, 2023 | Israeli army says Gaza City now "encircled", calls for "pause" grow
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Nov. 2, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Nov. 2 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (November 1, 2023)
---COVID--- COVID-19 vaccine costs, Paxlovid price change, new studies on long COVID symptoms and more | American Medical Association (AMA)
• Misogyny, hairdryers and foul-mouthed tirades: What we learned from Britain’s Covid-19 inquiry this week [CNN (via Yahoo News)]
• SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence in lung alveolar macrophages is controlled by IFN-γ and NK cells [nature immunology]
• HEPA filters cut covid-19 sick days but we’ve been slow proving this [Science hub]
• TWiV 1056: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1057: CMV-based HIV vaccine with Klaus Früh [Microbe TV]
Science and Technology • The Sky This Week from October 27 to November 3: See the dark side of space [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 27 – November 5 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
• Elon Musk says AI will eventually create a situation where ‘no job is needed’ [CNBC]
• AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers [BBC News]
• China’s first full-scale reusable rocket test fuels iSpace Hyperbola-3 ambitions [South China Morning Post]
• Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe [ARS TECHNICA]
• Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says [The Seattle Times]
• Amazon’s secret pricing scheme made it an extra $1 billion, FTC says [The Verge]
---SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, CURRENT EVENTS AND HISTORY VIDEOS--- The Level1 Show November 1 2023: Blood for the Blood Cooler | Level1 Techs
Will Bungie Bounce Back? - DTNS 4637 | Daily Tech News Show
Etch: Lithography's Unheralded Sibling | Asianometry
The secrets of Einstein's unknown equation – with Sean Carroll | The Royal Institution
Surviving in the Wild with an Emergency Bivvy (Goes Horribly Wrong) - Adventure | The Outdoor Gear Review
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Special Section: The Hamas-Israel War of 2023
• Iran Updates (Refocused on the Israel-Hamas War), November 2, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
🔴 (discretion) Israeli Ground Assault Continues, Sevastopol Cruises | Combat Footage Show
• ‘It’s going to be bloody’: Why Israel’s long war ahead will be nothing like what it’s faced before [CNBC]
• Four more fallen soldiers named as Israel encircles Gaza City - day 28 [Jerusalem post]
• Israel says Hamas stages hit-and-run attacks from tunnels [BBC News]
• ‘Genocide’, Colombia says as Latin American states condemn Israel over Gaza [Al Jazeera]
• Hezbollah chief to break weeks of silence on Israel-Hamas war in speech [Al Arabiya News]
• Germany's Habeck warns antisemitism bears consequences [DW News]
ukraine • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 618 [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 2, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
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• Ukraine’s top military leader says war is at a stalemate and a ‘beautiful breakthrough’ is unlikely [CNBC]
• Ukraine war: Russia hits most settlements in one day, says Kyiv [BBC News]
• New US sanctions over Russia-Ukraine war target Lancet drones [Al Jazeera]
• Ukraine updates: Putin lifts nuclear weapons testing ban [DW News]
• 300,000 Russians eliminated and counting (video) [TVP World]
• Magura Brigade Crushes Russian Assault Near Avdiivka (video) [Funker530 Combat Footage]
🔴 (discretion) Israeli Ground Assault Continues, Sevastopol Cruises | Combat Footage Show
Ukraine War Update NEWS (20231102a): Pt 1 - Overnight & Other News | ATP Geopolitics
Day 617: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
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On This Day
November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 58 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)
361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia; on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
1333 – The River Arno floods causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
1468 РLi̬ge is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France.
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1534 – English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded.
1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.
1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, which transfers much authority from the king to his parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
1867 – Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
1868 – John Willis Menard (R-LA) was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.
1881 – The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
1908 – William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
1929 – The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
1930 РGet̼lio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1932 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States.
1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
1943 – World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest, are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
1946 – The Constitution of Japan is adopted through Emperor's assent.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Battle of Dengbu Island occurs.
1950 – Air India Flight 245 crashes into Mont Blanc, while on approach to Geneva Airport, killing all 48 people on board.
1956 – Suez Crisis: The Khan Yunis killings by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza result in the deaths of 275 Palestinians.
1956 – Hungarian Revolution: A new Hungarian government is formed, in which many members of banned non-Communist parties participate. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich form a counter-government in Moscow as Soviet troops prepare for the final assault.
1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to a full term as U.S. president, winning 61% of the vote and 44 states, while Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time, casting the majority of their votes for Lyndon Johnson.
1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, are murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
1978 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
1982 – The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan by kills 150–2000 people.
1986 – Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1986 – The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the rebellion within 24 hours.
1992 – Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican President George H. W. Bush and Independent candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 United States presidential election.
1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, the leader of the Turkish ultranationalist organization Grey Wolves, dies in the Susurluk car crash, leading to the resignation of Interior Minister Mehmet AÄŸar (a leader of the True Path Party).
1997 – The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and East Africa.
2014 – One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, replacing the Twin Towers after they were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.
2020 – The 2020 United States presidential election takes place between Democratic Joe Biden and Republican incumbent President Donald Trump. On November 7, Biden was declared the winner.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, November 03, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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