Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A moist airmass will continue over the region this morning before drier air arrives with a cold frontal passage late today. Reinforcing cold fronts will cross the region late Monday and then again Tuesday night, with a brief increase in moisture along the spine of the southern Appalachians early Wednesday. Dry high pressure will then allow temperatures to return to near normal by Thursday and rise to 5 to 10 degrees above normal through next Saturday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the west 10 to 20 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the west 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Breezy.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the northwest early in the morning increasing to come out of the west 15 to 20 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the west 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 7 mph.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the west 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 50.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
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Hazards
Overnight fog will continue through the morning hours today. Patchy dense fog with visibility values one-quarter mile or less at times may continue.
Record Weather Events for December 3rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 73°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2018
Lowest Temperature 7°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1944
Greatest Rainfall 2.40 inches in Highlands in 1983
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands in 1971
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of December Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 78°F in Franklin on 12-31-1951
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Highlands on 12-30-1917
Greatest Rainfall 6.25 inches in Highlands on 12-28-2018
Greatest Snowfall 12.0 inches in Franklin on 12-21-1876
Record Weather Events for December 3rd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 87°F in Edenton, Chowan County in 1922
Lowest Temperature 1°F in Celo, Yancey County in 1960
Greatest Rainfall 3.00 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2009
Greatest Snowfall 17.0 inches in Brevard, Transylvania County in 1971
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of December Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 87°F in Edenton, Chowan County on 12-03-1922
Lowest Temperature -21°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 12-30-1917
Greatest Rainfall 7.80 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 12-29-2018
Greatest Snowfall 25.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 12-09-2017
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News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
• Agenda for the December 2023 Meeting of the Franklin Town Council [Macon Media]
• How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending Nov. 30 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• CDC’s Mandy Cohen says 16% of people boosted for COVID ‘is not enough’ [Raleigh News and Observer]
• National Park Service warns of fake Smoky Mountains parking pass scam [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
Global National: Dec. 2, 2023: Growing concerns for hostages as Israel-Hamas conflict escalates
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 1, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Dec 02 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (December 02, 2023)
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On This Day
December 3 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 28 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)
915 – Pope John X crowns Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor (probable date).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden: French General Jean Victor Marie Moreau decisively defeats the Archduke John of Austria near Munich. Coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's earlier victory at Marengo, this will force the Austrians to sign an armistice and end the war.
1800 – United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for president and vice president that resulted in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
1834 – The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
1854 – Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
1881 – The first issue of Tamperean daily newspaper Aamulehti ("Morning Paper") is published.
1898 – The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeats an all-star collection of early football players 16–0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.
1901 – In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1912 – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
1919 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
1920 – Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish-dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
1929 – President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It is presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.
1938 – Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as part of Aryanization.
1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
1960 – The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.
1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
1971 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full-scale war begins.
1972 – Spantax Flight 275 crashes during takeoff from Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, killing all 155 people on board.
1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
1979 – In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
1979 – Iranian Revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
1982 – A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later died from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1989 – In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact may be coming to an end.
1992 – The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
1994 – Taiwan holds its first full local elections; James Soong elected as the first and only directly elected Governor of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became the first directly elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first directly elected Mayor of Kaohsiung.
1995 – Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashes on approach to Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing 71 of the 76 people on board.
1997 – In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.
2007 – Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 32-kilometre (20 mi) portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
2009 – A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
2012 – At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
2014 – The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.
2021 – COVID-19 pandemic: New Zealand moves into COVID-19 Protection Framework (Traffic Light System), moving Auckland out of lockdown for fully vaccinated people.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, December 03, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center.
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