Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will build into the area through mid-week and linger into the weekend with milder temperatures. Cloudiness will increase by Christmas as the next cold front approaches from the west.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Thursday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph early in the morning decreasing to to calm winds by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Calm winds.
Wednesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Light winds out of the north.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph decreasing to light winds in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming light and variable.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the north 3 to 6 mph.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the north 3 to 7 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 30. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10mph becoming calm by noon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing. Calm winds.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
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Hazards
A high wind advisory is in effect for Macon County today until 6am. It will be blustery and cold today.
Record Weather Events for December 19th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 71°F in Highlands in 1931
lowest Temperature 0°F in Franklin in 1963
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.46 inches in Highlands in 1936
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands in 1982
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 19th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 81°F in Fayetteville, Cumberland County in 1931
Lowest Temperature -5°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1975
Greatest Rainfall 3.00 inches at the Oconaluftee, Swain County in 2000
Greatest Snowfall 24.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2009
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---
• Town of Franklin Receives $400,000 Grant From State to Finish Construction of Fire Department Substation on NP&L Loop [Macon Media]
• How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending Dec. 14 [WRAL-Tv (Raleigh, NC)]
• Under the Dome: The 10 moments we’ll remember from 2023 in NC politics news [Raleigh News and Observer]
• How the lawsuit against HCA could impact health care in the mountains [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Appeals court rules Mark Meadows can't take Georgia election case to federal court. Here's why. [WCNC-TV 9Charlotte NC)]
North Carolina in desperate need of foster families. | WYMY-TV (Greensboro, NC)
---RECENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS--
• Macon County Board of Commissioners (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]
• Macon County Board of Education December 2023 Meeting at Franklin High School [Macon Media]
• Franklin Town Council (Dec 2023) [Macon Media]
---NATIONAL---
The consequences of online misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war | CBS News
Lawmakers sound off on Ukraine aid, border deal talks | Washington Post
• Japan's Nippon Steel To Buy US Steel For $14 Billion [Zero Hedge]
• Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement [Wall Street Journal]
• Abbott Signs Law Allowing Texas to Arrest Migrants, Setting Up Federal Showdown [New York Times]
• One year of Trump’s praise for authoritarians [Politico]
• The epic floods receded, but the misery remains in poor California farm towns [Los Angeles Times]
• Editorial: Here’s how the IRS whistleblower revealed the flaws of the US tax code. He still committed a serious crime. [Chicago Tribune]
International News Headlines
BP pauses all Red Sea shipments after rebel attacks | BBC News
Earthquake in China’s northwest kills more than 100 people | Al Jazeera
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 663: Ukraine scales back some military operations amid artillery shortages [Euromaidan Press]
• Israel-Hamas War Day 74: IDF announces names of two fallen soldiers [Jerusalem Post]
• Eight people dead in Guinea oil terminal blast, say police [Al Jazeera]
• Hong Kong: China 'anxious' as world watches Jimmy Lai trial [DW News]
• Volcano erupts south of Iceland's Reykjavik after weeks of seismic activity [France 24]
• Death toll rises to 111 after earthquake in China's remote northwest [Taiwan News]
Washington Today (12-15-23): WH Nat'l Security Adviser downplays differences with Israel on Gaza war | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Dec. 18, 2023 | Ottawa teen facing new charges, on top of terrorism offences
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 18, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Dec 18 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (December 18, 2023)
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On This Day
December 19th is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 12 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)
1154 – Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1187 – Pope Clement III is elected.
1490 – Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1562 – The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
1606 – The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1675 – The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
1828 – Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun sparks the Nullification Crisis when he anonymously publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
1900 – Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
1900 – French parliament votes amnesty for all involved in scandalous army treason trial known as Dreyfus affair.
1907 – Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
1912 – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3+1⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
1920 – King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1924 – German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
1927 – Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
1929 – The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
1940 – Risto Ryti, the Prime Minister of Finland, is elected President of the Republic of Finland in a presidential election, which is exceptionally held by the 1937 electoral college.[13][14]
1941 – World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
1941 – World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
1945 – John Amery, British Fascist, is executed at the age of 33 by the British Government for treason.
1946 – Start of the First Indochina War.
1956 – Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
1961 – India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
1967 – Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1974 – Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1981 – Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1983 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1984 – The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
1986 – Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
1995 – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
1997 – SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
1998 – President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
2000 – The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.
2001 – A record high barometric pressure of 1,085.6 hectopascals (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012 – Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
2013 – Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.
2016 – Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.
2016 – A vehicular attack in Berlin, Germany, kills and injures multiple people at a Christmas market.
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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