Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure will nose down into the region from the north for much of the weekend, before a cold front arrives from the west late Sunday, increasing precipitation chances. Dry high pressure will build in behind the front, promoting colder and drier weather through late next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Light winds out of the southeast.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight.
Monday
A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 8am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Chance of rain is 20%.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Sunday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Light and variable winds shifting to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the morning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 7 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph before midnight.
Sunday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers before 8am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 50.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 6 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Light winds out of the southeast.
Sunday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 50. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 by midmorning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers before 9am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 40s.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Record Weather Events for November 25th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 76°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1973
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands in 1950
Greatest Rainfall 2.64 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1964
Greatest Snowfall 2.0 inches in Highlands in 1939
(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 25th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 84°F in Monroe, Union County in 1931
Lowest Temperature -4°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1970
Greatest Rainfall 4.69 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1964
Greatest Snowfall 11.7 inches in Sparta, Alleghany County in 1950
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
President Biden on Release of Hostages from Gaza | C-SPAN
Global National: Nov. 24, 2023 | Hamas frees 24 hostages from Gaza on first day of truce
ABC World News Tonight Full Broadcast - Nov. 23, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Nov. 24 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (November 24, 2023)
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On This Day
November 25th is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 36 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)
571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans.
1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad, son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.
1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1343 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.
1510 – Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
1596 – The Cudgel War begins in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when peasants rebel against the imposition of taxes by the nobility.
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1678 – Trunajaya rebellion: After a long and logistically challenging march, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri.
1755 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.
1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000–40,000.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1833 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7 and 9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
1839 – A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 12-metre (40 ft) storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1908 – A fire breaks out on SS Sardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.
1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1917 – World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
1918 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria-Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
1941 – HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II.
1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 impacts 22 American states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in damages (1950 dollars).
1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends with Chinese victory, American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
1968 – The Old Student House in Helsinki, Finland is occupied by a large group of University of Helsinki students.
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1973 – Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. He is later assassinated in 1983.
1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 265 km/h (165 mph) and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
1999 – A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
2000 – The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
2008 – Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
2009 – Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, November 25, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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