Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Above normal temperatures and an active weather pattern will persist through the week. A frontal system will bring heavy rain and possibly a few thunderstorms to the area on Wednesday, while another strong system impacts the area later in the week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly after 11pm. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows in the lower 50s. WInds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday
Showers, mainly before 11am. The rain could be heavy at times. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Highlands Plateau
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.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. WInds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly after 10pm. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows around 50. Winds out of the east 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday
Showers, mainly before noon. The rain could be heavy at times. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows around 50. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the southeast early in the morning increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly after 10pm. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows in the lower 50s. WInds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday
Showers, mainly before 11am. The rain could be heavy at times. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Isolated showers after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the south early in the morning increasing and shifting to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly after 10pm. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday
Showers, mainly before 11am. The rain could be heavy at times. Highs near 60. Chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
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Record Weather Events for March 4th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 80°F in Franklin in 1976
Lowest Temperature 3°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1943
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.10 inches in Highlands in 1917
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 3.0 inches in Highlands in 2016
Record weather events for March in Macon County
Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 15, 1967
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on March 7, 1899
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.43 inches in Highlands on March 29, 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 13, 1993
All-time record weather events for Macon County
Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on Jul 29, 1952
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on Jan 21, 1985
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on Jul 29, 1879
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Mar 13, 1993
Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
March 2024 Schedule
3-9-24---The Shifty Sisters--Bringing their own songs and some covers to The Frog. Always fun, always heartfelt, many times irreverant as they sing about the Low Rent Side of Heaven and Facebook Blues.
3-16-24---Barry Roma--Our Franklin Crooner!...bringing you Classic Love Songs from Johnny Mathis, Orbison, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & more.
3-23-24---No Live Music inside. WHT (Women's History Trail) Statue dedication across the street. Frog Quarters will be open our Regular Hours for gifts and to serve Coffee & Treats.
3-30-24---Sonia Brooks & Chuck Dorling--Come hear and sing along with a gal who loves folk and popular music of the past decades. She loves to entertain and make sure that the songs are preserved and shared with all age groups. Chuck is right along with her & on his own.... singin' the blues.
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
Meet the Press full broadcast – March 03 | NBC News
"Face the Nation" Full Broadcast | March 03, 2024
RUBYMAR Sinks in the Red Sea due to Houthi Attack | Impact on Undersea Cables & Global Shipping | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, March 1, 2024
2024 Campaign Trail: The Final Days Before Super Tuesday | C-SPAN
Washington Today (3-1-24): Thousands protest at Navalny funeral; U.S. will airdrop food to Gaza | C-SPAN
Global National: March 3, 2024 | Gaza ceasefire setback after Israel boycotts Cairo peace talks
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - March 03, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | March 02, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 03 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (March 03, 2024)
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On This Day
March 4th is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 302 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
938 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.
1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'.
1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 – Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 – John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States of America, becoming the first President to begin his presidency on March 4.
1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1813 – Cyril VI of Constantinople is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1814 – Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
1849 – President-elect of the United States Zachary Taylor and Vice President-elect Millard Fillmore did not take their respective oaths of office (they did so the following day), leading to the erroneous theory that outgoing President pro tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison had assumed the role of acting president for one day.
1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1878 – Pope Leo XIII reestablishes the Catholic Church in Scotland, recreating sees and naming bishops for the first time since 1603.
1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 8,094 feet (2,467 m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1901 – McKinley inaugurated president for second time; Theodore Roosevelt is vice president.
1908 – The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1913 – The United States Department of Labor is formed.
1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of the United States. He was the last president to be inaugurated on March 4.
1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1955 – An order to protect the endangered Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) was legalized.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
1962 – A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania.
1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1990 – American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference Tournament game.
1994 – Space Shuttle program: the Space Shuttle Colombia is launched on STS-62.
1996 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 – BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
2012 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
2015 – At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
2018 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
2020 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, March 04, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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