Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A robust cold front will move east of our area today, taking with it the widespread rainfall. Dry high pressure returns in its wake and lingers through Thanksgiving Day. Weak low pressure will move northward from Florida on Friday and along the Southeast Coast over the weekend.
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Burn ban issued for 14 counties in Western North Carolina due to hazardous forest fire conditions https://thunderpigblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/burn-ban-issued-for-14-counties-in.html Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Isolated showers between 11am and 3pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Thanksgiving Day
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Calm winds.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Isolated showers between noon and 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Thanksgiving Day
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph early in the moning becoming calm by midmorning.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Light and variable winds.
Friday
A slight chance of rain between 10am and 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 50. Chance of rain is 20%.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Isolated showers between noon and 4pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thanksgiving Day
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Calm winds.
Friday
A slight chance of rain between 11am and 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain is 20%.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Isolated showers between 10am and 4pm. Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the north 3 to 8 mph.
Thanksgiving Day
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Calm winds.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
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Hazards
The burn ban is still in effect. [LINK TO BURN BAN INFO]
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Gusty winds are expected to develop this afternoon through early Thursday morning.
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On This Day
November 22 is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 39 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)
498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
1718 – Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.
1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.
1873 – The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.
1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
1948 – Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign.
1955 – The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.
• [22 NOVEMBER 1955 - RDS-37]
• [VIDEO: RDS-37 Soviet hydrogen bomb test (1955)]
• [Wikipedia: RDS-37]
1956 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.
1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.
• [Archive: Walter Cronkite Reports On Death Of JFK]
• [Wikipedia: Assassination of John F. Kennedy]
• [University of Texas - John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection: A Guide]
• [GRAPHIC: NBC News Live Coverage of The Assassination of President Kennedy (1:30 P.M - 6:30 P.M E.T)]
• [Members Only: "MacNeil/Lehrer on the JFK Assassination"]
• [CBS News - President Kennedy Assassination - 11-22-1963 (1:30 P.M E.T - 6:34 P.M E.T)]
• [Internet Archive: Weisberg Collection on the JFK Assassination]
• [National Archives: Warren Commission Report]
• [The JFK Files : The Murder of a President - The Fifth Estate]
1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
• [B-2 Stealth Bomber Spirit - Rollout Ceremony - full-length Grumman video]
• [Wikipedia: Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit]
• [Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber]
1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.
1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
1995 – The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
2003 – England defeats Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament.
2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
• [Wikipedia: Orange Revolution]
• [Inside the Orange Revolution]
• [Orange Revolution - English (standard definition)]
2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2012 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
2015 – A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar kills at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing.
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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