Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A cold front will track across the region, with lingering northwest flow moisture expected in the mountains near the Tennessee border through daybreak. Dry and chilly high pressure will build in behind the departing front through Tuesday, with breezy to windy conditions expected at times, especially over the mountains. Dry conditions will persist under the influence of high pressure Wednesday into Thursday before moisture returns again from the west late this week through the weekend with the next low pressure system.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 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 in the upper teens. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. BWinds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 20 to 25 mph in the morning decreasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high in the mid-to-upper 30s mph.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the north 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
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Hazards
Most of the county will not experience hazardous weather conditions today, however, Nantahala and elevations above 3500 feet could experience icing on rodways.
...SPOTTY LIGHT ICING POSSIBLE AROUND DAYBREAK MONDAY IN PARTS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...
Colder air will arrive quickly behind a passing cold front overnight. A brief wintry mix of precipitation, consisting of light freezing rain, freezing drizzle, and light snow showers may develop overnight before tapering off shortly after daybreak. This wintry mix could lead to spotty light accumulations of ice and snow at some locations above 3500 feet, and possibly in some lower valley locations near the Tennessee border, with temperatures expected to dip into the 20s and lower 30s. Sunshine will return later Monday morning and temperatures will rise above freezing through the day at all but the highest ridge tops.
Record Weather Events for November 27th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 71°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1990
Lowest Temperature 3°F in Highlands in 1903
Greatest Rainfall 2.84 inches in Highlands in 1984
Greatest Snowfall 0.8 inches in Highlands in 1950
(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 27th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 84°F in Clinton, Sampson County in 1973
Lowest Temperature 0°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1930
Greatest Rainfall 5.12 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1993
Greatest Snowfall 7.0 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
---STATE AND LOCAL---
2023 Christmas Tree Lighting (Franklin, NC) | Macon Media
Webcast of the 2023 Franklin Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade | Macon Media
The video is not available for embedding because several vehicles and floats in the parade were playing copyrighted music. For those without Facebook accounts, the video will be posted on Youtube (and may other places as well) by sometime Thursday if all goes well. --Bobby
• Macon tables partisan school board discussion [Smoky Mountain News]
• Ethics probe into NC justice's comments continues after federal court refuses to halt it [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• As state attorneys general get more political, NC's 2024 race looms large [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Hold the dad jokes. Health risk keeps Gov. Cooper from pardoning NC turkeys [Raleigh News and Observer]
---NATIONAL---
Congress working in solidarity for Ukraine & Israel | The Bret Baier Podcast | Fox News
White evangelicals, Trump, and a church in crisis | CBS Sunday Morning
• Black Friday Spending Was Strong. How People Pay for Gifts Is Upending Retailers. [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]
• Black Friday shoppers spent a record $9.8 billion in U.S. online sales, up 7.5% from last year [CNBC]
• A growing series of alarms blaring in federal courtrooms, less than a year before 2024 presidential election [CBS News]
• Shooting of 3 Palestinian Men in Vermont Investigated as Possible Hate Crime [New York Times]
• Biden says 4-year-old Abigail Edan was released by Hamas. He hopes more U.S. hostages will be freed [AP News]
• Marty Krofft, of producing pair that put ‘H.R. Pufnstuf’ and the Osmonds on TV, dies at 86 [CNBC]
• Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa hacked by Iranian-backed cyber group [CBS News]
International News Headlines
• Sealand, world's smallest state, has 1 permanent resident and its own royal family [CBS News]
• World's largest iceberg breaks free, heads toward Southern Ocean [Reuters]
• Australia: More than 100 climate activists arrested [DW News]
• Argentina election: Javier Milei's radical proposals face test of reality [BBC News]
• US to deploy new missiles in Asia-Pacific to deter Chinese invasion of Taiwan [Taiwan News]
• China’s President Xi Jinping to visit Shanghai on Tuesday, his first trip to nation’s commercial hub since 2021 [South China Morning Post]
Meet the Press full broadcast – Nov. 26 | NBC News
Face The Nation: Lazzarini, McCain, Bennet | Face the Nation (CBS)
President Biden on Release of Hostages from Gaza | C-SPAN
Global National: Nov. 26, 2023 | Hamas seeks to extend truce with Israel after hostage-prisoner swap
ABC World News Tonight Full Broadcast - Nov. 26, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Nov. 26 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (November 26, 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 24 to December 1: Celebrate November’s Full Beaver Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 24 - December 03 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
This Week in Linux #243: Inkscape, LTS Kernels, EndeavourOS, Firefox 120, Steam Sale & more Linux news | Michael Tunnell
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
Deep Space Updates November 26th | Scott Manley
• Will Livestreaming Be TikTok’s Amazon-Killer? [Wall Street Journal]
• Elon teases Starship V2 and Ariane Testfires Ariane 6 - NSF Live (Youtube) [ NASASpaceflight ]
• China in a bull shop: One of the largest Chinese tech companies has announced a 'game-changing' 3,072-core RISC-V server that used an indigeneous CPU — on US soil [Tech Radar Pro]
• New study finds ChatGPT gives better advice than professional columnists [PsyPost]
• What does a sustainable smartphone look like? [BBC News]
• Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer [Jniversity of Chicago: Biological Sciences Division]
• 33 states accuse Meta of having a big 'open secret' — millions of underage users [Yahoo Sports]
---SCIENCE VIDEOS--- The Level1 Show November 24 2023: Shut Up, Caryn | Level1 Techs
Top 5 Historical Newsroom Technologies - Tom's Top Five | Daily Tech News Show
The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill (Free with Ads) | YouTube Movies & TV
Moon rush: the launch of a lunar economy | FT Film
Farther and Faster: NASA's Journey to the Moon with Artemis | NASA
China's Moon Secret Revealed // Starship Success // The Real Asteroid Danger | Fraser Cain
The making of Juice: the film | European Space Agency
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
World War Zero: 3 Conflicts That Foreshadowed WW1 (Full Documentary) | The Great War
The Island Where Napoleon Was Sent to Die | History Hit
The Coming Psychological Black Death | WhatIfAltHist
Special Section: The Hamas-Israel War of 2023
• Iran Updates (Refocused on the Israel-Hamas War), November 26, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
• Liveblog: Israel set for more hostage releases, Hamas calls for longer ceasefire [Jerusalem Post]
• Liveblog: Israel-Hamas war live: Calls to extend truce grow as captives released [Al Jazeera]
🔴 (discretion) Hezbollah Escalation, Shifa Tunnels, Dnipro Bridgehead | Combat Footage Show
Video shows third group of hostages released by Hamas | MSNBC
Third hostage release: American child among Hamas captives freed amid Israel war | LiveNOW from FOX
• US Navy seizes attackers who held Israel-linked tanker. Missiles from rebel-controlled Yemen follow [AP News]
• 'Moving scenes' as Israeli hostages, Palestinian prisoners are reunited with families [France 24]
• (video) Palestinians in Jenin rebuild lives after Israeli raids [DW News]
• Thirteen hostages held by Hamas in Gaza back in Israel [Al Arabiya News]
• 3 students of Palestinian descent shot in Vermont in suspected hate crime [South China Morning Posta>]
• War with Hamas damaging Israel’s economy – Moody’s [Russia Today]
ukraine • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 639 [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 26, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
20 Days in Mariupol (full documentary) | FRONTLINE and The Associated Press
Meet the Ukrainian special ops team striking behind Russian lines | ABC News
• Ukraine’s citizens showcase spirit of democracy while America struggles [TVP World]
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 641: Ukrainian Air Forces down Russian drones; Moscow reports intercepting 21 UAVs [EuroMaiden Press]
• Ukraine war: Fierce row erupts over 2024 election [BBC News]
• Russia downs Ukrainian drones, missiles day after its attack on Kyiv [Al Jazeera]
• Ukraine is shipping more grain through the Black Sea despite threat from Russia [ABC News]
• (video) Could Eastern Ukraine’s Avdiivka Become the Next Bakhmut? [Wall Street Journal]
Pro-Russian News Sources
• US Senate announces vote on Ukraine aid [Russia Today]
• Special military operation to end with Russia reuniting with Ukraine [Pravda]
• Twenty-four Ukrainian drones destroyed up to now – Russian Defense Ministry [TASS]
----------UKRAINE VIDEOS------------ 🔴 (discretion) Hezbollah Escalation, Shifa Tunnels, Dnipro Bridgehead | Combat Footage Show
Ukraine War Upd. EXTRA (20231126): ATACMS Info, Putin's Many Failures, & Weird Kids' Parties | ATP Geopolitics
Day 635: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
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On This Day
November 27 is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 34 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)
AD 25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
511 – King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.
602 – Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper Phocas executes his five sons before Maurice is
beheaded himself.
1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
1809 – The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.
1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
1830 РSaint Catherine Labour̩ experiences a Marian apparition.
1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1895 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1896 – Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1917 – P. E. Svinhufvud becomes the chairman of his first senate, technically the first Prime Minister of Finland.
1918 – The Makhnovshchina is established.
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1940 – In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.
1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
1944 – World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
1945 – CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is founded to send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.
1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
1968 – Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
1973 – Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387–35).
1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
1978 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the Turkish village of Fis.
1983 – Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
1984 – Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agrees to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
1989 – Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The MedellÃn Cartel will claim responsibility for the attack.
1992 РFor the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andr̩s P̩rez in Venezuela.
1997 – Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1999 – The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2006 РThe House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Qu̩b̩cois as a nation within Canada.
2008 – XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
2009 – Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
2015 – An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians are also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.
2020 – Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran.
2020 – Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah monolith is removed by recreationists.
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, November 27, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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