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GENERAL OUTLOOK
A cold front will approach the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia from the west today, with the best rain chances over the mountains this afternoon and evening. Dry high pressure will build in behind the departing front Monday into Tuesday. Dry and chilly conditions will linger through mid-week as the surface high remains overhead. A moist frontal system may return from the west Friday into Saturday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds, with highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Patchy fog between 10pm and midnight. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the south 5 to 15 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows around 18.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before midnight. Patchy fog between 10pm and midnight. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the southwest wind 10 to 15 mph shifting to come out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 20s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds, with highs near 50. Light winds out of the southeast early in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before midnight. Patchy fog between 10pm and midnight. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 15 mph shifting to come out of the north after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows around 20.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds, with highs near 50. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Showers likely, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog between 10pm and midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph shifting to come out of the northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 20s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Record Weather Events for November 26th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 73°F in Franklin in 1990
Lowest Temperature -1°F in Highlands in 1950
Greatest Rainfall 2.98 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1979
Greatest Snowfall 5.0 inches in Highlands in 1902
(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 26th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 83°F in Longwood, Brunswick County in 1973
Lowest Temperature -2°F in Fletcher, Buncombe County in 1950
Greatest Rainfall 5.86 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1999
Greatest Snowfall 8.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
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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President Biden on Release of Hostages from Gaza | C-SPAN
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On This Day
November 26 is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 35 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)
783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her king from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
1476 – Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1812 – The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia.
1852 – An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 60 in the Dutch East Indies.
1863 – United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.
1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of ValparaÃso, Chile.
1914 – HMS Bulwark is destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
1917 – The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
1918 – The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1922 – The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)
1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
1941 – World War II: The Hull note is given to the Japanese ambassador, demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina, in return for which the United States would lift economic sanctions. On the same day, Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs Hitokappu Bay for Hawaii.
1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
1942 – Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City.
1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people.
1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
1949 – The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
1965 РFrance launches Ast̩rix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.
1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 38 millimetres (1.5 in) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
1977 – An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm.
1983 – Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
1986 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
1991 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
1998 – The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India.
1999 – The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
2000 – George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
2003 – The Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
2004 – The last PoÊ»ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2008 – Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation.
2008 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, now out of service, docks in Dubai.
2011 – NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
2018 – The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
2019 – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1000 injured. This was the deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, November 26, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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