Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A low pressure system approaches the region from the Gulf Coast and brings a wintry mix through mid-morning. A brief encounter of NW flow snow in the mountains on Sunday and another system arrives by Tuesday with likely heavy rainfall across the region. Dry weather returns after Wednesday to close out the work week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 40s. Light winds out of the east early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Monday Night
Showers, mainly after 11pm. Lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southeast 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Tuesday
Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Windy. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday Night
Rain showers likely before 1am, then rain and snow showers likely between 1am and 2am, then a chance of snow showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 40. East southeast wind 5 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday Night
A chance of rain or freezing rain before 11pm, then rain showers. Lows around freezing. Winds out of the southeast 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Tuesday
Showers. Highs in the mid 40s. Windy. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday Night
Rain and snow showers likely before 2am, then a chance of snow showers between 2am and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid=to-upper 40s. Light winds out of the east early in the morning increasing and shifting to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Monday Night
Showers, mainly after 11pm. Lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southeast 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Tuesday
Showers. Highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Tuesday Night
Rain showers likely before 2am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 2am and 4am, then a chance of snow showers after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Nantahala Area
Today
A chance of rain and snow showers, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 40. Winds out of the west 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid=to-upper 40s. Light winds out of the east early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 6 to 11 mph by midmorning.
Monday Night
Showers, mainly after 11pm. Lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the southeast 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Tuesday
Showers. Highs near 52. Windy. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday Night
Rain showers likely before 2am, then rain and snow showers likely between 2am and 4am, then a chance of snow showers after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
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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 7th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 70°F in Franklin in 1890
Lowest Temperature -9°F in Highlands in 2014
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 3.11 inches in Highlands in 1946
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 8.0 inches in Franklin in 1988
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 7th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 83°F in Marion, Mcdowell County in 1927
Lowest Temperature -24°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
Greatest Rainfall 3.80 inches at Salisbury, Rowan County in 1915
Greatest Snowfall 24.0 inches in Laurel Springs, Ashe County in 1996
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---
• Two Die in Structure Fire on Prentiss Bridge Road [Macon Media]
• Press Release From Fire Marshal's Office: Fire crews responded to three structure fires in Macon County over the last 24 hour period [Macon Media]
• 'The house was fully engulfed in flames:' Neighbor describes scene of Macon County fire [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Town of Franklin says cheers to the new year [BPR]
• Franklin Town Council (January 2024 Regular Meeting) [Macon Media]
• NC same-day voter registration lawsuit hits impasse [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
---RECENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS--
• Franklin Town Council (January 2024 Regular Meeting) [Macon Media]
• 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---
Washington Today (1-5-24): President Biden on Donald Trump & Jan 6 attack: 'We nearly lost America' | C-SPAN Radio
Global National: Jan. 5, 2024 | Florida gets FDA approval to import cheaper drugs from Canada
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Jan 05, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | Jan. 5, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Jan 05 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (January 05, 2024)
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On This Day
January 7th is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 358 days remain until the end of the year (359 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)
49 BC –The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
• [Wikipedia: Caesar's Civil War]
• [Caesar against Pompey - Great Roman Civil War DOCUMENTARY]
• [Youtuber: HBO Rome Fictionalized Account]
1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 – French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
• [The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites]
• [How Galileo Unlocked The Doors to the Universe | Galileo Galilei]
• [Galileo Galilei: Father of Modern Science]
• [The Worlds Biggest Telescopes Through History - From Galileo to Gran Telescopio Canarias]
1738 – A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1894 – Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
1927 – The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.
1928 – A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1940 – Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Raate Road]
• [The Battle of Raate Road]
• [Winter War - Soviet Finnish 1939-1940 War - FULL 3d DOCUMENTARY]
1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1972 – Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
1973 – In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
1979 – Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
• [Investopedia: The Chrysler Bailout of 1979: A Retrospective]
• [NBC Video: Chrysler Loan Hearing NBC 12/18/79]
• [Washington Post: The Bottom-Line Details Of the Chrysler BailoutT]
• [New York Times Archive]
1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1994 – A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2012 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
2015 – Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
2015 – A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
2020 – The 6.4Mw 2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, January 07, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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