Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry and seasonably cool high pressure will control our weather through today. Low pressure tracking south of the region will bring a chance of light snow to the mountains Wednesday night. A more impactful low pressure system will bring a wintry mix to parts of our region Friday night and Saturday morning, turning to rain in the Piedmont and mountain valleys by midday Saturday. A strong storm system is forecast to affect the eastern part of our nation through the middle of next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the upper teens. Light and variable winds.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Friday Night
Snow and sleet likely before 2am, then snow between 2am and 3am, then rain or freezing rain after 3am. Lows around 30. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Saturday
Rain, mainly before 1pm. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the upper teens. Light and variable winds.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Friday Night
Snow and sleet likely before 2am, then snow between 2am and 3am, then rain or freezing rain after 3am. Lows around 30. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Saturday
Rain, mainly before 1pm. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 4pm. Increasing clouds, with highs in the upper 40s. Calm winds by midmorning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A chance of rain and snow showers before 11pm, then a slight chance of snow showers between 11pm and 1am. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with lows in the mid 20s. Light and variable winds increasing to come out of the north 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Thursday
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s.
Friday Night
A chance of rain or freezing rain before midnight, then rain. Lows around 30. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 20s. Light and variable winds.
Friday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 7 mph.
Friday Night
Snow and sleet likely before 2am, then sleet between 2am and 3am, then rain after 3am. Lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Saturday
Rain, mainly before 1pm. Highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Light snow may occur for a short time tonight and Thursday morning as a low pressure system tracks south of the region. Accumulation is not currently expected, but the forecast still could change.
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Record Weather Events for January 4th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 72°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2004
lowest Temperature -6°F in Highlands in 1919
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.63 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1982
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands in 1980
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of January Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 78°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-28-1999
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on 01-21-1985
Greatest Rainfall 5.10 inches in Highlands on 01-12-2018
Greatest Snowfall 10.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 01-08-1988
Record Weather Events for January 3rd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 82°F in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 2022
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1979
Greatest Rainfall 4.00 inches at Brevard, Transylvania Countyy in 1906
Greatest Snowfall 14.0 inches in Roxboro, Person County in 2002
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of January Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 86°F in Marion, Mcdowell County on 01-24-1927
Lowest Temperature -34°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 01-21-1985
Greatest Rainfall 9.18 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 01-13-2018
Greatest Snowfall 28.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 01-28-1998
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
January Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
This is a reminder that Frog Quarters remains closed throughout this week, but we will reopen with our regular schedule (Wed thru Sat, 9a to 2p) beginning next week on January 3rd........Meaning Live MidDay Music will resume on Saturdays from 11a to 1p.
1/6/24—George James—You’ll enjoy George’s tenor voice on his wide repertoire of Folk, Soft Country & Celtic Folk covers. Bring your requests in, because if George doesn’t know one popular hit, he’ll probably know another by the artist.
1/13/24—Al Scortino & Greg “Squeeze Box” Thomas—Both these guys have a fantastic offering of original songs they’ve written over the years. “Slice of life” songs, environmental songs and more. You’ll be shedding a tear over Al’s award-winning folk song, Molly’s Makeup. Greg always has the perfect instrumental accompaniment with the keyboard, accordian or harmonica. These guys are a treat.
1/20/24—Melody Lowery—A talented singer/songwriter who’s quite the musician whether playing her favorite guitar or demonstrating her many years of schooling on the keyboard. She’s known around town for her original, Frogtown Girl—a Franklin, NC ballad.
1/27/24—Mike Yow—When this talented Singer/Songwriter isn’t doing Country, Rock or Gospel with his group, Arnold Hill, he performs his originals along with Appalachian, country and folk/pop of others. It’s always a treat when Mike comes to town.
Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!
Mountain Findings
432 Spruce Street (physical)
Highlands, North Carolina 28741
Web: MountainFindings.org
Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.
News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
Pushback against Buc-ee's leads 1,100 to urge town to reject development | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Portion of Clyde Street to be Closed for Waterline Construction From January 2nd to Jan 5th, 2024 [Macon Media]
• Top NC Court of Appeals judge removed from leadership role, without explanation [WRAL-TV (raleigh, NC)]
• NC town one step closer to establishing designated downtown area for alcoholic drinks [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Asheville hasn’t had passenger rail service since 1975. That may change. [BPR]
• Registration trends show deepening dissatisfaction with major parties [Smoky Mountain News]
• Year in Review: News about the local news, 2023 [Mountain Xpress]
---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---
Several state capitols evacuated after bomb threats | CBS News
Court documents in Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit released | NBC News
• Jeffrey Epstein-Linked Names Unsealed: What You Need to Know [Wall Street Journal]
• US national debt hits record $34 trillion [CNN]
• Menendez Case Puts Focus on Qatar’s Push to Turn Wealth Into Influence [New York Times]
• Severe thunderstorms, flooding downpours to blast Southeast into next week [AccuWeather]
• Nikki Haley ratchets up her attacks on Donald Trump [Politico]
• Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ban [BBC News]
International News Headlines
Iran says two blasts near grave of Soleimani kill at least 103 people and injured 170 others | Al JAzeera
EU Elections: Could a right-wing surge undermine the bloc? | DW News
• Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno [BBC News]
• Sierra Leone charges former president Koroma with treason over 'coup attempt' [BBC News]
• Congo declares state of emergency over devastating floods and landslides [Africa News]
• Death toll in central Japan quake rises to 78 in Ishikawa Pref. alone, 51 still unaccounted for [The Mainichi]
• Seoul's spy agency sees N.K. leader's daughter Ju-ae as 'most likely successor' [Yonhap News Agency]
• Year of the underdog: How ‘outsiders’ upended Latin America’s elections [Al Jazeera]
‘I gained so much more than I lost’ with Jan. 6 testimony: Cassidy Hutchinson | ABC News
Washington Today (1-3-24): Speaker Johnson at southern border, calls it 'unmitigated disaster' | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Jan. 3, 2024 | At least 100 die in twin bombings at ceremony for slain Iran general
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Jan 03, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Jan 03 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (January 03, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
• The Sky This Week from December 29 to January 5: Shooting stars ring in the new year [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, December 29 – January 5 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Links With Friends - Live 2024 - Join Us? | Level1 Techs
Falcon 9 launches Ovzon 3 & Falcon 9 first stage landing | SciNews
Suing YouTube’s Science Scammers | Kyle Hill
• Heating and cooling are fundamentally asymmetric and evolve along distinct pathways [nature physics]
• Here’s how the EPA calculates how far an EV can go on a full charge [ARS TECHNICA]
• A giant stem-group chaetognath [Scicne Advances (American Assocaition for the Advancement of Science)]
• SpaceX accused of unlawfully firing staff critical of Elon Musk [BBC News]
• Healthy Omega-3 Fats May Slow Deadly Pulmonary Fibrosis, Research Suggests [University of Virginia Health System]
• Starbucks accused of rigging payments in app for nearly $900 million gain over 5 years by consumer watchdog group [Fortune Magazine]
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History Video Section---
Something Weird Is Happening In Japan | Economics Explained
Argentina, After America || Peter Zeihan
Growing number of Americans are canceling their streaming services | Scripps News
Incredible Time Lapse by NASA Reveals Unbelievable Gamma Ray Sources | Antov Petrov
---COVID News Roundup---
Ep 147 Osterholm Update: JN.1, Hospital Capacity, & Vaccine Uptake
Beyond the Noise #24: Labels Matter: Operation Warp Speed and Emergency Use Authorization | Microbe TV
• RSV Vaccines Would Greatly Reduce Illness if Implemented Like Flu Shots [Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis]
• Vaccination Dramatically Lowers Long Covid Risk [Scientific American]
• Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: an estimate [Science Direct]
• Beyond the Noise #24: Labels Matter: Operation Warp Speed and Emergency Use Authorization [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1074: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1075: Fit viruses, parasites, sick chickens [Microbe TV]
---Russo-Ukraine War News Roundup---
🔴 (discretion advised) 2023 Recap: Top 25 Most-Watched Funker530 Videos | Combat Footage Show
Top events that shaped the war in Ukraine in 2023 | Binkov's Battlegrounds
Ukraine war: What to expect in 2024 | DW News
Day 676: Ukraïnian Map | Ukraine News TV
Ukraine War Update BUMPER NEWS (20231231a): Pt 1 - Overnight & Other News & Belgorod Analysis | ATP Geopolitics
Ukraine War Update NEWS (20231231b): Military Aid & Geopolitical News, TVP Analysis | ATP GGeopolitics
Ukraine Daily Update | Day 676 | Operator Starsky 🇺🇦
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 3, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 676: War rages on New Year’s Eve, Russia rains drones, Ukraine fights back [Euromaidan Press]
• Ukraine war: Missiles fired at Russian city Belgorod and occupied Crimea [BBC News]
• Ukraine updates: Kyiv and Moscow exchange POWs [DW News]
• Photos: Russian missiles pound Kyiv after Putin vows to intensify attacks [Al Jazeera]
• France plans to produce weapons in Ukraine, says ambassador [Euromaidan Press]
---Israel-Hamas War News Roundup (aka Iraninan Proxy War with Israel)---
• Iran Update (Hamas-Israel War), January 03, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Israel-Hamas War Day 90 | White House: U.S. to Leave 'Significant' Mideast Presence; Hamas Retains Fighting Capabilities in Gaza [Haaretz]
• US led coalition warns Houthis of ‘consequences’ after Red Sea attacks [Al Jazeera]
Red Sea Crisis: Houthi Shipping Attacks, Trade and Escalation | Perun
Inside Story on How an MH-60 Sank Houthi Attack Boats | Ward Carroll
• US 'not seeing acts of genocide' in Gaza, State Dept says [Jerusalem Post]
• Israel-Hamas war: Blinken to visit Middle East [DW News]
• Saleh al-Arouri: Hamas leader's death 'won't go unpunished', says Hezbollah chief [BBC News]
• Attacks Heighten Fears of a Wider War for the Middle East and U.S. [New York Times]
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On This Day
January 4th is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 361 days remain until the end of the year (362 in leap years).
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
871 РBattle of Reading: ̠thelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1649 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht; Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17, 1716).
1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War.
1798 – Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire.
1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1863 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
1884 – The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
1885 РSino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de N̩grier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at N̼i Bop in northern Vietnam.
1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
• [Topsy the Elephant Was a Victim of Her Captors, Not Thomas Edison]
• [LWikipedia Bio]
• [VIDEO: Topsy the Elephant]
1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
1918 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden, Germany and France.
1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
1948 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
1956 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
1958 – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK.
1975 – This date overflowed the 12-bit field that had been used in the Decsystem 10 operating systems. There were numerous problems and crashes related to this bug while an alternative format was developed.
1976 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
1987 – The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
1990 – In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.
2000 – A Norwegian passenger train departing from Trondheim, collides with a local train coming from Hamar in Ã…sta, Ã…mot; 19 people are killed and 68 injured in the accident.
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
2006 – Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke.
2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
• [Congress convenes under Democratic control for the first time since 1995]
2010 – The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai.
2013 – A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.
2018 – Hennenman–Kroonstad train crash: A passenger train operated by Shosholoza Meyl collides with a truck on a level crossing at Geneva Station between Hennenman and Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa. Twenty people are killed and 260 injured.
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, January 04, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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