Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Above normal temperatures and an active weather pattern will persist through the weekend. A frontal system moves off the Carolina coast tonight taking the rain with it. Dry high pressure briefly controls our weather late tonight and Thursday. A more robust low pressure tracks across the Southeastern States from Friday into the weekend bringing more heavy rain and possible storms.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows in the upper 40s. Light and variable winds.
Friday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 8am. Cloudy, with highs near 60. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday Night
Showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Saturday
Showers before 1pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain is 100%.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid mid 30s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable by noon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph shifting to come out of the southeast after midnight.
Friday
Showers likely, mainly after 5pm. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Friday Night
Showers. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Saturday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Highs in the lower 50s. Windy. Chance of rain is 100%.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows around 50. Light and variable winds.
Friday
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly after 8am. Cloudy, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday Night
Showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Saturday
Showers before 1pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Highsin the mid-to-upper 50s. Chance of rain is 100%.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Increasing clouds, with lows around 50. Light and variable winds.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 9am. Cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Friday Night
Showers. Lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Saturday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Highsin the mid-to-upper 50s. Windy. Chance of rain is 100%.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Heavy rainfall will move into the area late Friday and Saturday. This could lead to minor flooding of streams, creeks, and flood prone areas.
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Record Weather Events for March 07th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 81°F in Franklin in 1974
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands in 1899
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 3.13 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1967
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 2.0 inches in Highlands in 1914
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)
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.
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
Conservative activist Michele Morrow pulled off a major upset in her quest to run NC public schools | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• NC Wildlife Resources Commission adopts changes to bear, deer hunting season []
• What WNC primary results teach us about extreme politics and voter apathy [BPR]
• Miles ahead, miles to go: despite a year of progress, post-mill challenges remain in Canton [Smoky Mountain News]
Washington Today (3-6-24): Nikki Haley suspends presidential campaign, does not endorse Donald Trump | C-SPAN
Global National: March 6, 2024 | Haley drops out, leaving Trump as Republicans' presumptive nominee
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - March 06, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | March 06, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 06 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (March 06, 2024)
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On This Day
March 7th is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 299 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)
161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.
1277 – The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses.
1573 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
1827 – Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1862 – American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1902 – Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
1931 – The Parliament House of Finland was officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
1936 – Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1941 – Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.
1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1951 – Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, inside a mosque in Tehran.
1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
1967 – The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1987 – Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
1993 – The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA.
2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
2007 – Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2007 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.
2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
2021 – At least 105 die and 600 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
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Published at 5:00am on Thuresday, March 07, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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