Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Another reinforcing cold front will cross our region Tuesday evening with a brief increase in moisture Tuesday night and early Wednesday over the North Carolina mountains permitting some light rain or snow especially near the Tennessee border. Dry high pressure will then allow temperatures to warm up through late in the week, before active weather potentially returns for the weekend as a cold front approaches from the northwest.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
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.
Tonight
A chance of rain and snow showers before 2am, then a chance of rain showers between 2am and 5am, then a chance of rain and snow showers after 5am. Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 50%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Wednesday
A chance of rain and snow showers, mainly before 7am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
A chance of rain and snow showers before 2am, then a chance of snow showers. Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of snow showers between 10am and 11am. Sunny, with highs in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 20 to 30 mph decreasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph in the morning hours.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A chance of rain showers after 8pm, mixing with snow after 5am. Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Showers likely, mainly between 2am and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph becoming 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.
Wednesday
A chance of rain and snow showers, mainly before 9am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 50.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
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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.
Accumulating snowfall will be possible tonight and Wednesday morning across parts of the North Carolina mountains, especially at elevations above 3500 feet and near the immediate Tennessee border. Most valley locations will see little to no snow accumulation, but locations above 3500 feet may see 1 to 3 inches of snow, with some isolated 4 to 6 inch amounts possible in and around the ridgetops of the Great Smoky Mountains. A Winter Weather Advisory could be needed tonight for some of these areas.
Windy conditions are also likely Wednesday morning, with northwest winds producing gusts greater than 40 mph at the higher elevations.
Record Weather Events for December 5th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 72°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2001
Lowest Temperature 7°F in Highlands in 1899
Greatest Rainfall 3.74 inches in Highlands in 1910
Greatest Snowfall 2.0 inches in Highlands in 1901
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 5th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 85°F in Murfreesboro, Hertford County in 1978
Lowest Temperature -1°F in Laurel Springs, Ashe County in 1974
Greatest Rainfall 4.31 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1973
Greatest Snowfall 10.0 inches in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 2002 />
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---
• Franklin Town Council (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]
• Extreme drought continues in WNC [BPR]
• Top 10 reminders from NC State Board of Elections as 2024 candidate filing begins [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• NC congressional districts are racially gerrymandered, new lawsuit claims [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC elections board posts ‘not real’ filing list showing McCrory candidacy. He won’t run [Raleigh News and Observer]
---NATIONAL---
Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? | WSJ
• No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data [The Register]
• Liz Cheney says ‘there’s no question’ Trump would refuse to leave office if elected again [Today]
International News Headlines
Something Terrible Is Happening in Italy | Economics Explained
North Korea's most powerful woman | DW Documentary
A Peak Past the End of the World | Peter Zeihan
• US, S Korea, Japan Sign Pact to Counter Disinformation [South Korea News ]
• US Navy says it will trial using AI to track Chinese submarines in the Pacific [Business Insider]
---COVID--- Ep 145 Osterholm Update: The Hospital Capacity Crisis
TWIV 1066: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin | Microbe TV
• US prison deaths soared by 77% during height of Covid-19 crisis, study finds [The Guardian]
• Tracing the footprints of SARS-CoV-2 in oceanic waters [Science of The Total Environment]
• 24 Nova Scotia long-term care homes currently dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks [Global News]
• TWiV 1066: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1065: Cat coronavirus gains function in Cyprus [Microbe TV]
Science and Technology Companies, countries battle to develop quantum computers | 60 Minutes
• 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]
“It’s Scary For Filmmakers” | Christopher Nolan Goes to Bat For Physical Media | IGN
• Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity [nature communications]
• About 40% of the world's power generation is now renewable [SciMex]
• Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers [Science Alert]
• World Record Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity Doubles to 22.9 Petabits per Second [National Institute of Information and Communications Technology]
• Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports [The Register]
• Meta warns that China is stepping up its online social media influence operations [NPR]
---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
Destination Linuc #349 | Software License to Thrill plus New All AMD Laptop from Tuxedo Computers
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 expands ground offensive into 'all areas' including south of Gaza Strip | Channel 4 News
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On This Day
December 5th is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 26 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)
63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.
633 – Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1408 – Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1496 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jewish "heretics" from the country.
1560 – Charles IX becomes king of France.
1578 – Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan raids Valparaiso.
1649 – The town of Raahe (Swedish: Brahestad) was founded by Count Per Brahe the Younger.
1757 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
1766 – In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
1831 – Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. Senate.
1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1895 – New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first concert.
1931 – Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow is destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.
1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1943 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
1945 – Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.
1952 – Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
1955 – E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery bus boycott.
1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958 – The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1964 – Lloyd J. Old discovers the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
1971 – Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.
1977 – Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1991 – Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.
1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
2004 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2005 – The 6.8 Mw Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2007 – Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.[8]
2013 – Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
2014 – Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion, is launched.
2017 – The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, December 05, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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