Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Another reinforcing cold front crossed the region last night and brought a brief increase in moisture that will continue through early this morning over the mountains, permitting some light snow in the higher elevations. Dry high pressure will then allow temperatures to warm up through late in the week, before active weather returns for the weekend as a cold front is expected to approach from the northwest.
WEATHER DELAYS FOR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6TH, 2023
Nantahala School will be on a two-hour delay this morning.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs near 60.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs near 50.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. WInds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Light and variable winds.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Scattered snow showers, mainly before 7am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 40. 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.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Light winds out of the south.
Friday
Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Record Weather Events for December 6th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 72°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1998
Lowest Temperature 4°F in Highlands in 1937
Greatest Rainfall 2.88 inches in Highlands in 2013
Greatest Snowfall 0.6 inches in Highlands in 1959
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 6th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 82°F in Bayboro, Pamlico County in 1998
Lowest Temperature 2°F in Laurel Springs, Ashe County in 1974
Greatest Rainfall 3.84 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1982
Greatest Snowfall 10.0 inches in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1954 />
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]
Quirky Charming Small Town Christmas Parade - Too Many Grinches? Waynesville, NC | The Carpetbagger
• U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, NC Republican who served as interim speaker, to retire from Congress [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC House Speaker Tim Moore files to run for state's 14th Congressional District [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
---NATIONAL---
3 Major University Presidents Testify Before Congress on Rise of Anti-Semitism & Violence | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
WATCH: University Presidents Testify Before House on Antisemitism, Violent Protests | The Hill
• College presidents face tough questions from Congress over antisemitism on campus [CBS News]
• No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data [The Register]
• Why Some Opioid Victims Are Challenging Purdue’s Settlement [Wall Street Journal]
• Oral argument suggests narrow ruling to uphold disputed tax [SCOTUSblog]
• ‘A very tricky conundrum’: Experts give their verdict on saving vs. investing as inflation falls [CNBC]
• Liz Cheney says ‘there’s no question’ Trump would refuse to leave office if elected again [Today]
International News Headlines
Gaza update: Israeli forces enter Gaza's second largest city Khan Younis | DW News
The EU-China Summit | Hanna Szymerska | TVP World
• Heavy rains and landslides kill at least 65 in Tanzania [Al Jazeera]
• Nigeria airstrike 'mistakenly' kills worshippers at religious festival [BBC News]
• Taiwan Army special forces begin 11-day exercise [Taiwan News]
• India's ruling nationalist party leads in three of four states in regional polls [France 24]
• Liveblog: Election Results From India [Hindustan Times]
• N. Korea pulls out of Senegal, Guinea in series of embassy closures: official [Yonhap News Agency]
Global National: Dec. 5, 2023 | Israeli military surrounding Khan Younis
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 5, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Dec 06 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (December 06, 2023)
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On This Day
December 6th is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 25 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)
963 – Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of Protonotary and begins his papacy as antipope of Rome.
1060 – Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1492 – After exploring island of Cuba for gold, surmising it for Japan, Columbus lands on island similar to Castile, naming it Hispaniola.
1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1648 – Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
1704 – Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
1745 – Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
1803 – Five French warships attempting to escape the Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the Haitian Revolution.
1865 – Georgia ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1882 – Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.
1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
1904 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
1912 – The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
1916 – World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
1917 – Finland declares independence from the Russian Empire.
1917 – Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
1917 – World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
1941 – World War II: Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.
1956 – A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
1969 – Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.
1971 – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)
1975 – The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
1977 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
1978 – Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.
1982 – The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bombs a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven soldiers and six civilians.
1989 – The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
1990 – A military jet of the Italian Air Force, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: In Croatia, forces of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city for seven months.
1992 – The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
1997 – A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
1998 – in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.
1999 – A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
2005 – An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.
2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2015 – Venezuelan parliamentary election: For the first time in 17 years, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela loses its majority in parliament.
2017 – Donald Trump's administration officially announces the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, December 06, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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