**NOTE** The burn ban is still in effect for now.
Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure remains in place into Monday. A strong storm system will pass northwest of the region Tuesday, bringing a cold front through the area around that time and a good chance for beneficial rainfall. Most likely, dry and seasonably cool conditions will return in time for Thanksgiving and persist into next weekend.
The Macon County Board of Commissioners November 2023 Regular Meeting [LINK].
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Burn ban issued for 14 counties in Western North Carolina due to hazardous forest fire conditions Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly 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
Increasing clouds, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows winds out of the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly before 1am. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 90%.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 8am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 3am. Cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the east 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 70%.
Tuesday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly before 2am. Lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
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
Increasing clouds, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Monday
A slight chance of showers between 9am and 1pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.
Monday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lowswinds out of the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly before 1am. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.
Monday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Highs in the mid 50s. Windy. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly before midnight. Lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Gusty winds are possible late Monday into Tuesday night as a frontal system crosses the area. Isolated heavy rainfall is also possible Tuesday into Tuesday night.
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On This Day
November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 42 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)
461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
1802 – The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize).
1808 – Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends hostilities in Finland.
1816 – Warsaw University is established.
1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1941 – World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
1977 – TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1996 – A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14.
1998 – Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
1999 – John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.
2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
2004 – The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault.
2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, November 19, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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