Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A weak low pressure system, with limited moisture, will lift north across the southeastern U.S. today, followed by high pressure nosing down over the region from the north on Saturday. A cold front, again with limited moisture, will arrive from the west Sunday into Monday. Colder temperatures will follow the front through mid-week as dry high pressure moves over the region.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Scattered sprinkles before 11am. Cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 60. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.
Sunday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Scattered sprinkles before noon. Cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the east 5 to10 mph.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s.
Sunday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain before 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Scattered sprinkles before noon. Cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 60. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Calm winds.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to7 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 28. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 7 mph.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 50.
Sunday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Light and variable winds.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s.
Sunday Night
A chance of rain before 2am, then a chance of showers between 2am and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain is 40%.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Record Weather Events for November 24th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 77°F in Franklin in 1973
Lowest Temperature 3°F in Highlands in 1970
Greatest Rainfall 2.56 inches in Highlands in 1983
Greatest Snowfall 4.0 inches in Highlands in 1981
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Kate)
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 24th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 86°F in Tarboro, Edgecombe County in 1900
Lowest Temperature -8°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1970
Greatest Rainfall 3.71 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2014
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1971
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
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News Briefing
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NYC LIVE Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade 2023 | The NYC Walking Show
The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill (Free with Ads) | YouTube Movies & TV
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International News Headlines
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Meet the Press full broadcast – Nov. 19 | NBC News
Face The Nation: Kawar, Gallagher, Krishnamoorthi | Face the Nation (CBS)
Washington Today (11-20-23): Donald Trump gag order argued before U.S. Court of Appeals | C-SPAN
Global National: Nov. 20, 2023 | Fate of captured Hamas militants sparks fierce debate
ABC World News Tonight Full Broadcast - Nov. 20, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Nov. 20 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (November 20, 2023)
---COVID--- Ep 144 Osterholm Update: A Slow Motion Tsunami
• SARS-CoV-2 and innate immunity: the good, the bad, and the “goldilocks” [nature: Cellular and Molecular Immunology]
• Vaccine fatigue? Health care workers skip COVID-19 shots [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
• More US parents plan to vaccinate kids against RSV, flu than COVID, survey shows [CIDRAP (The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy)]
• TWiV 1062: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1063: Childhood paralysis with Kevin Messacar [Microbe TV]
Science and Technology • The Sky This Week from November 17 to 24: See Jupiter at its best [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 17 – 26 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
JWST finds most distant supermassive black hole known (and it's WAY BIGGER than should be possible) | Dr Becky
Meta Just Achieved Mind-Reading Using AI | ColdFusion
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---SCIENCE VIDEOS--- The Level1 Show November 22 2023: Bing Is Still My CoPilot | Level1 Techs
Game of OpenAI Thrones - DTNS 4649 | Daily Tech News Show
Android Faithful #20 | Daily Tech News
The Last Thing To Ever Happen In The Universe | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Post Labor Economics: How will the economy work after AGI? Recent thoughts and conversations | David Shapiro
The Man Who Started the Cold War - WW2 Documentary Special | World War Two
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The Coming Psychological Black Death | WhatIfAltHist
Special Section: The Hamas-Israel War of 2023
• Iran Updates (Refocused on the Israel-Hamas War), November 20, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
• Liveblog: US, Hamas say hostage, ceasefire deal near, Houthis up threats [Jerusalem Post]
• Liveblog: Hamas chief says ‘truce’ deal near as Israel bombs Gaza ‘north to south’ [Al Jazeera]
🔴 (discretion) Hezbollah Escalation, Shifa Tunnels, Dnipro Bridgehead | Combat Footage Show
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ukraine • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 636 [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 20, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
20 Days in Mariupol (full documentary) | FRONTLINE and The Associated Press
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Pro-Russian News Sources
• Timofey Bordachev: Russia has been giving the West a chance to come to its senses for 16 years [Russia Today]
• Russia may complete special military operation in spring 2024 [Pravda]
• Russian envoy to Washington brands new US aid package to Ukraine as sedative pill [TASS]
----------UKRAINE VIDEOS------------ 🔴 (discretion) Hezbollah Escalation, Shifa Tunnels, Dnipro Bridgehead | Combat Footage Show
Ukraine War Live Stream Chat/Q AND A with Exit: All Things Maritime | ATP Geopolitics
Day 635: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
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On This Day
November 24th is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 37 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)
380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
1227 – GÄ…sawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at GÄ…sawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.
1248 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.
1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
1429 РHundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charit̩.
1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1750 – Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
1832 – South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.
1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
1906 – A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
1917 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
1922 – Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
1929 – The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1940 – World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
1943 – World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
1962 – Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
1962 – The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
1965 РJoseph-D̩sir̩ Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
• [D.B. Cooper Deep Family Secrets. Part One.]
• [The Search For D. B. Cooper]
1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
1976 – The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
1989 – After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, MiloÅ¡ JakeÅ¡ and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
1992 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.
2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
2015 – A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
2015 – A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.
2015 – An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
2016 – The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, November 24, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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