Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Drier air arrived overnight as a cold frontal passed across the area late last night. Reinforcing cold fronts will then cross the region late today 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. The next system that may bring significant precipitation arrives next weekend.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph decreasing to light winds after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
A slight chance of rain showers before 2am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 2am and 5am, then a chance of snow showers after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 30%.
Wednesday
A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 10am, then a slight chance of rain showers between 10am and 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 20%.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
A 20 percent chance of rain after 4pm. Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tuesday Night
A slight chance of rain and snow before 2am, then a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 30%.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 40. Breezy.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming light north after midnight.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
A slight chance of rain showers between midnight and 3am, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 30%.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of snow showers before 8am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s.
Nantahala Area
Today
A slight chance of showers between noon and 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming light west after midnight.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
A slight chance of rain between 9pm and 11pm, then a chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 40%.
Wednesday
A 40 percent chance of snow showers, mainly before noon. Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 30s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight. A brief period of flurries of light snowshowers is expected to develop overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, with minor accumulation possible above 4,000 feet. Most of us should only see flurries.
Record Weather Events for December 4th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 74°F in Franklin in 2021
Lowest Temperature 6°F in Highlands in 1895
Greatest Rainfall 3.26 inches in Highlands in 1941
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Franklin 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 4th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 84°F in Marion, Mcdowell County in 1926
Lowest Temperature 1°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1989
Greatest Rainfall 4.85 inches in Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County in 1927
Greatest Snowfall 15.0 inches in Lake Toxaway, 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]
Sylva 2023 Christmas Parade | The Sylva Herald and Ruralite
• WANTED: Authorities searching for 'armed & dangerous' man in connection to felony kidnapping [ WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• On the Edge: Children sleep in offices as foster care falls short [BPR]
---NATIONAL---
American warship comes under attack in Red Sea | KTVU-TV (San Fransisco, CA)
How America Racked Up A $1 Trillion Credit Card Bill | CNBC
• Evan Gershkovich, Detained for 250 Days, Is Still Bringing His Friends Together [Wall Street Journal]
• Why More Chinese Are Risking Danger in Southern Border Crossings to U.S. [New York Times]
• Wall Street banker pays $2 million sight unseen for coal mine then discovers it's filled with $37 billion worth of rare Earth elements [Yahoo Finance]
• Auto industry eyes subscription fees as future multi-billion-dollar revenue stream [CBS News]
• What Steve Scalise won’t forget [Politico]
• Supreme Court reviews Sacklers’ $6 billion exchange for opioid crisis immunity [Courthouse News Service]
International News Headlines
COP28: UN climate talks go big on ending fossil fuels | BBC News
Global renewables: Pioneering the energy transition | DW Documentary
Paris attack suspect had expressed 'hard-core Islamic State ideology' | FRANCE 24 English
• Paris knife attacker 'swore allegiance to IS' terrorist group, suffered from mental issues [France 24]
• World Court orders Venezuela to refrain from action in border dispute with Guyana [Reuters]
• Burkina, Niger to quit the anti-jihadist force G5 Sahel [Africa News]
• Eleven climbers dead, 12 missing after eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Marapi [Al Jazeera]
• South China Sea: China says US combat ship ‘illegally’ entered waters near disputed Second Thomas Shoal [South China Morning Post]
• Russian MP proposes taxing childless people [Russia Today]
Washington Today (12-1-23): House votes to expel Rep. Santos (R-NY), 311-114, 2 present | C-SPAN Radio
Face The Nation: Cox, Polis, Gottlieb (12-03-2023)
Meet the Press full broadcast (12-03-2023) | NBC News
Global National: Dec 3, 2023: Israel’s attack on Gaza continues for 3rd day after truce expiry
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 3, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Dec 03 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (December 03, 2023)
---COVID--- Perspectives: Flu, RSV and COVID Tripledemic | WALA-TV ( Mobile, AL)
• Excess mortality in England post Covid-19 pandemic: implications for secondary prevention [The Lancet]
• True prevalence of long-COVID in a nationwide, population cohort study [nature communications]
• Maternal vaccination against COVID-19 lowered risk of preterm births, Stanford study finds [Stanford News]
• TWiV 1066: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1065: Cat coronavirus gains function in Cyprus [Microbe TV]
Science and Technology What If Someone Steals GPT-4? | Asianometry
• The Sky This Week from December 1 to 8: Mercury stands east of the Sun [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, December 01 - December 09 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) | Smarter Every Day 293
More Hubble Trouble (plus India's Future Plans) | This Week In Spaceflight
• There's a Respiratory Disease Outbreak in China, Why Experts Aren't Very Worried [healthline]
• Social media influencers may affect more than voter opinions [PennState]
• Climate: why disinformation is so persistent [University of Geneva]
• Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete [tech radar pro]
• Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies [Fortune Magazine]
• AI could mean free doctors and lawyers for everybody in 10 years, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes [Business Insider]
• Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks [tom's Hardware]
---SCIENCE VIDEOS--- Channel Update December 2023 | Explaining Computers
The Level1 Show December 1 2023: Bat Voyeur Makes Lengthy Discovery | Level1 Techs
Remotely Possible - DTNS 4656 | Daily Tech News Show
Do we live in a giant void that could solve the puzzle of the universe’s expansion? | NASASpaceNews
SpaceX's Starship Version 2 to take Center Stage! Lets do this! | Matt Lowne
Saving Hubble Space Telescope... Again. | NASA Spaceflight
AI: Grappling with a New Kind of Intelligence | World Science Festival
Elon Musk on Advertisers, Trust and the “Wild Storm” in His Mind | DealBook Summit 2023 | New York Times Events
10 Interesting Scientific Discoveries for December 2023 | John Michael Godier
Ask The Tech Guys #2003: Beware the Cannibal Solar Storm | TWiT TV
The Coming Psychological Black Death | WhatIfAltHist
Special Section: The Hamas-Israel War of 2023
• Iran Updates (Refocused on the Israel-Hamas War), December 03, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
• Israel-Hamas War Day 59: Three IDF soldiers killed in Gaza fighting [Jerusalem Post]
• Israel-Gaza war live: Israel expands ground attack in southern Gaza [Al Jazeera]
Israel ramps up ground assault as more than 100 hostages remain in Gaza | CBS Evening News
Israel Gaza War - LIVE Gaza Camera Skyline Video Coverage | Agenda Free TV
• Senior Hamas Official: No Regrets For Killing Women And Babies, Will Launch Even Bigger Conflict Soon [The Yeshiva World]
• Protester critically injured after setting self on fire outside Israeli consulate in Atlanta [AP News]
• US warship responds to Houthi-claimed attacks on 3 commercial ships in Red Sea [Stars and Stripes]
• 🔴 Live: Israel launches ground invasion in southern Gaza despite calls to protect civilians [France 24]
• Western Powers Debate Whether to Back a Temporary Gaza Buffer Zone [Haaretz]
• Israeli bombing of Gaza intensifies, clashes reported near southern city [Al Arabiya News]
ukraine • Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 03, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 648. NATO: More arms for Ukraine means quicker war end [Euromaidan Press]
Putin's Baltic plans can be stopped in Ukraine | Michael Howard | Times Radio
Exhaustion, Politics & The War in Ukraine - Public Support, Allied Endurance & the War in 2024 | Perun
• Surrounded by Russians and ready to die, this Ukrainian soldier called in an artillery strike – on his own position [CNN]
• Eastern Express: Lukashenka’s unexpected war admission [TVP World ]
• Ukraine updates: Russia shot surrendering troops, says Kyiv [DW News]
• Ukraine blocks ex-president from leaving country amid alleged plan to meet with Hungary’s Orban [France 24]
Pro-Russian News Sources
Col Macgregor: The Russians Are Finding Women Dead On The Battlefield | Douglas Macgregor Straight Calls
• Ivan Timofeev: Western sanctions against Russia have failed. What's next? [Russia Today]
• Russian army about to take Marinka. AFU to lose another city in Donbass [Pravda]
• NATO chief says it should be ready for bad news from Ukraine [TASS]
----------UKRAINE VIDEOS------------ 🔴 (discretion) Ceasefire in Gaza, Russia Gains Ground | Combat Footage Show
Ukraine War Live Stream Discussion with John Sweeney | ATP Geopolitics
Day 647: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
Filmmaker captures the brutal Russian siege of a Ukrainian city | CNN
How a 10 year war In Ukraine could bleed out Putin | Frontline | Times Radio
20 Days in Mariupol (full documentary) | FRONTLINE and The Associated Press
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On This Day
December 4 is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 27 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)
771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
1110 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem captures Sidon.
1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
1563 – The final session of the Council of Trent is held. (It had opened on December 13, 1545.)
1619 – Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."
1676 – The Danish army under the command of King Christian V engages the Swedish army commanded by the Swedish king Charles XI at the Battle of Lund, to this day it is counted as the bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history and a turning point in the Scanian War.
1745 – Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite Rising.
1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.
1786 – Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).
1791 – The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
1829 – In the face of fierce local opposition, British Governor-General Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that anyone who abets suttee in Bengal is guilty of culpable homicide.
1861 – The 109 Electors of the several states of the Confederate States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander H. Stephens as Vice President.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta.
1865 – North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
1872 – The crewless American brigantine Mary Celeste, drifting in the Atlantic, is discovered by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship has been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly damaged. Her master Benjamin Briggs and all nine others known to have been on board are never accounted for.
1875 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain.
1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1893 – First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1909 – In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
1917 – After drafting the Declaration of Independence, the Finnish Senate headed by P. E. Svinhufvud submitted to the Parliament of Finland a proposal for the form of government of the Republic of Finland and issued a communication to Parliament declaring independence of Finland.
1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
1939 – World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
1945 – By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
1949 – Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.
1956 – The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.
1964 – Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.
1965 – Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.
1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
1969 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
1971 – The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
1971 – The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.
1977 РJean-B̩del Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
1977 – Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.
1979 – The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
1981 – South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).
1982 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
1983 – US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.
1984 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.
1991 – Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut; he is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
1991 – Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
1992 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
2006 – Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana.
2014 – Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.
2015 – A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.
2017 – The Thomas Fire starts near Santa Paula in California. It eventually became the largest wildfire in modern California history to date after burning 1,140 square kilometres (440 sq mi) in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, December 04, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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