Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure lingers through the weekend keeping temperatures above normal. A strong storm system will bring widespread rain to the area Christmas Day (Monday) through Tuesday. Colder weather arrives Wednesday night into late week with snow showers possible across the mountains.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Christmas Eve
Showers likely, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Light winds out of the southeast increasing to 5 to 10 mph 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.
Christmas Day
Rain. Highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of rain is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Monday Night
Rain before 1am, then showers after 1am. Lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday
Showers likely before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 3pm, then a chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Chance of rain is 70%.
Tuesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers before 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 50s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Christmas Eve
Showers likely, mainly after 3am. Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Christmas Day
Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. Patchy fog before 7am. Highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of rain is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Monday Night
Rain before 1am, then showers after 1am. Lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday
Showers, mainly before 3pm. Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Tuesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Partly sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Christmas Eve
Showers likely, mainly after 4am. Cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Christmas Day
Rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Breezy, with a southeast wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of rain is 100%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Monday Night
Rain before 1am, then showers after 1am. Lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday
Showers likely before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then a chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers before 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Christmas Eve
Showers likely, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. WInds out of the south 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Christmas Day
Rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of rain is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Monday Night
Rain before 1am, then showers after 1am. Lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday
Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Tuesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers before 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
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News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
Tar Heel Traveler: The Chicken Coop book club | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Here’s a list of new North Carolina laws that take effect on New Year’s Day [Raleigh News and Observer]
• The Wrap: Who won 2023 in NC politics? [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Holiday history: Why do poinsettias represent Christmas? [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• New Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act regulations will close loopholes and speed up process [BPR]
• Town of Franklin Receives $400,000 Grant From State to Finish Construction of Fire Department Substation on NP&L Loop [Macon Media]
• Angel Medical Center President's Column for December 2023 [xxx]
---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---
Inside the AI Tech Making Clones of Hollywood’s Biggest Actors | WSJ
Hospitals see increase in respiratory illness ahead of holidays | ABC News
• The Rise of the Forever Renters [Wall Street Journal]
• Childhood vaccine exemptions are at an all-time high. Doctors worry diseases like measles could return [ABC News]
• Elijah McClain: Paramedics found guilty in death of Colorado man [BBC News]
• Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, judge rules [NBC News]
• Rudy Giuliani Owes Hunter Biden Money, Bankruptcy Filing Reveals [Newsweek]
• Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider called for public hanging of Joe Biden [The Guardian (UK)]
International News Headlines
What the Ship is Going on In the Red Sea and With Global Shipping (Ep 96) | What is Going on With Shipping?
Indian Defence Strategy - Forces, Potential and Procurement Disasters | Perun
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 23, 2023 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Israel-Hamas War Day 79 | Eight Israeli Army Soldiers Killed in Gaza Fighting on Saturday; Biden, Netanyahu Discuss Wars' 'Phasing' [Haaretz]
• Tanker hit off India coast by drone from Iran, says US [BBC News]
• German police warn of possible attack at Cologne Cathedral [DW News]
• U.S. expresses serious concern over signs of N.K. commissioning light-water reactor [Yonhap News Agency]
• China punches up private security to protect overseas interests in hostile, unstable regions [South China Morning Post]
• New war in the making as Yemeni Houthis attack ships in Red Sea [Pravda]
Global National: Dec. 23, 2023 | Israel intensifies fighting campaign in Gaza post-UN aid resolution
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 23, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Dec 23 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (December 23, 2023)
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On This Day
December 24 is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; seven 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)
502 – Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate.
640 – Pope John IV is elected, several months after his predecessor's death.
759 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he is hosted by fellow poet Pei Di.
1144 – The capital of the crusader County of Edessa falls to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo.
1294 – Pope Boniface VIII is elected, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
1500 – A joint Venetian–Spanish fleet captures the Castle of St. George on the island of Cephalonia.
1737 – The Marathas defeat the combined forces of the Mughal Empire, Rajputs of Jaipur, Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawab of Awadh and Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Bhopal.
1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.
1800 – The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise fails to kill Napoleon Bonaparte.
1814 – Representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States sign the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.
1818 – The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria.
1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
1846 – British acquired Labuan from the Sultanate of Brunei for Great Britain.
1865 – Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.
1868 – The Greek Presidential Guard is established as the royal escort by King George I.
1871 – The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.
1906 – Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
1913 – The Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan results in the deaths of 73 striking workers families at a Christmas party participants (including 59 children) when someone falsely yells "fire".
1914 – World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
1918 – Region of Međimurje is captured by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from Hungary.
1920 – Gabriele D'Annunzio surrendered the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume to Italian Armed Forces.
1924 – Albania becomes a republic.
1929 – Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
1929 – A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.
1939 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
1941 – World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
1941 – World War II: Benghazi is conquered by the British Eighth Army.
1942 – World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.
1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for Operation Overlord.
1944 – World War II: The Belgian Troopship Leopoldville was torpedoed and sank with the loss of 763 soldiers and 56 crew.
1945 – Five of nine children become missing after their home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, is burned down.
1951 – Libya becomes independent. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
1952 – First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
1953 – Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.
1964 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 282 crashes after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport, killing three.
1966 – A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 111.
1968 – Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits, took the Earthrise photograph, broadcast live TV pictures, and read the first ten verses of Genesis.
1969 – Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.
1971 – LANSA Flight 508 is struck by lightning and crashes in the Puerto Inca District in the Department of Huánuco in Peru, killing 91.
1973 – District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
1974 – Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
1983 – Aeroflot Flight 601 crashes during takeoff from Leshukonskoye Airport, killing 44 of the 49 people on board.
1994 – Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists.
1996 – A Learjet 35 crashes into Smarts Mountain near Dorchester, New Hampshire, killing both pilots on board.
1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.
1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).
2003 – The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
2005 – Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of belligerence against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.
2008 – The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.
2018 – A helicopter crash kills Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor.
2021 – Burmese military forces commit the Mo So massacre, killing at least 44 civilians.
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Published at 5:00am on Saturday, December 23, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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