Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will linger through the weekend and help keep temperatures above normal. We can expect widespread precipitation early next week as a frontal system crosses the area.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 60. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 30s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly after 1am. Cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Christmas Day
Rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Monday Night
Rain. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 90%.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 7 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the south.
Sunday
Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the south early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 5am. Cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Christmas Day
Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. Highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Windy. Chance of rain is 100%.
Monday Night
Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Windy. Chance of rain is 100%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Showers likely, mainly after 5am. Cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Christmas Day
Rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Windy. Chance of rain is 100%.
Monday Night
Rain. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 90%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Sunday
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Christmas Day
Rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Windy. Chance of rain is 90%.
Monday Night
Rain. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 90%.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
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On This Day
December 23 is the 357th day of the year (358th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; eight 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)
484 – The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene Christianity.
558 – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque.
962 – The Sack of Aleppo as part of the Arab–Byzantine wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo.
1598 – Arauco War: Governor of Chile Martín García Óñez de Loyola is killed in the Battle of Curalaba by Mapuches led by Pelantaru.
1688 – As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees from England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his son-in-law and nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.
1783 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
1793 – The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
1815 – The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.
1876 – First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
1893 – The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
1914 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1914 – World War I: During the Battle of Sarikamish, Ottoman forces mistook one another for Russian troops. The following friendly fire incident leave 2,000 Ottomans dead and many more wounded.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
1919 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
1936 – Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.
1941 – World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1948 – Seven Japanese military and political leaders convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed by Allied occupation authorities at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
1950 – General Walton Walker dies in a jeep accident and is replaced by General Matthew Ridgway in the Eighth United States Army.[4]
1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
1955 – The first film adaptation of Väinö Linna's novel The Unknown Soldier, directed by Edvin Laine, premieres.
1960 – Hilkka Saarinen née Pylkkänen is murdered in the so-called the "oven homicide" case in Krootila, Kokemäki, Finland.
1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
1970 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 417 metres (1,368 ft), making it the tallest building in the world.
1970 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.
1972 – The Immaculate Reception is caught by Franco Harris to win the Pittsburgh Steelers their first ever playoff victory, after defeating the Oakland Raiders.[8]
1972 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
1972 – The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, surviving by cannibalism.
1978 – Alitalia Flight 4128 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea while on approach to Falcone Borsellino Airport in Palermo, Italy, killing 108.
1979 – Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
1984 – After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board.
1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
1990 – History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.
2002 – A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.
2003 – An explosion at the PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field in Kai County, Chongqing, China, kills at least 234.
2005 – An Antonov An-140, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan, heading across the Caspian Sea, crashes, killing 23 people.
2007 – An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
2008 – A coup d'état occurs in Guinea hours after the death of President Lansana Conté.
2015 – A bomb explodes at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport, killing one airport cleaner. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks claim responsibility for the attack four days later.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, December 23, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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