News and Weather Briefing for Wednesday, September 18, 2024 ~ Thunder Pig

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

News and Weather Briefing for Wednesday, September 18, 2024

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National News

Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.

GENERAL OUTLOOK

The remnants of the coastal low will drift east over the region today and dissipate by Thursday. Meanwhile, high pressure begins to build into the region from the north and west giving our region a dry weekend.

• County Commissioners Begin Process of Selecting a New County Manager [Macon Media]

• Macon County Public Health to Host Drive-Thru Flu Vaccine Clinic [Macon Media]

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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Friday Night

Franklin Area

Today

A slight chance of showers before 10am, then a chance of showers after 1pm. Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.

Thursday

A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.

Friday

Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s.

Highlands Plateau

Today

A chance of showers before 10am, then a chance of showers after noon. Patchy dense fog in the afternoon. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight

Patchy dense fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.

Thursday

A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy dense fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Thursday Night

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then a slight chance of showers between 7pm and 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 30%.

Friday

Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.

Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

A slight chance of showers before 11am, then a chance of showers after 1pm. Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

A 30 percent chance of showers before 8pm. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday

A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.

Thursday Night

A 20 percent chance of showers before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.

Friday

Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.

Nantahala Area

Today

A slight chance of showers before 9am, then a chance of showers after 1pm. Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. Calm winds. The chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Patchy dense fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Thursday

A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Calm winds.

Thursday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.

Friday

Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.

Friday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.

Hazards

Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.

Tropical Update

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Wed Sep 18 2024

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

1. Central Subtropical Atlantic (Remnants of Gordon):
Showers and thunderstorms remain disorganized over the central tropical Atlantic in association with the remnants of Gordon. This system is forecast to interact with a non-tropical low to its north while moving north-northeastward at 5 to 10 mph during the next couple of days. Environmental conditions could become more conducive for development later this week, and a tropical depression or storm could re-form in a few days while the system moves slowly northward over the central subtropical Atlantic.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...60 percent.

2. Northwestern Caribbean Sea:
A broad area of low pressure could form this weekend over the northwestern Caribbean Sea. Thereafter, some slow development of this system is possible through early next week while it moves slowly to the north or northwest over the northwestern Caribbean Sea.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.

Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (0.8 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (6.2 out of 12.0).

Record Weather Events for September 18th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 93°F in Franklin in 1954
Lowest Temperature 34°F in Highlandsin 1903
Greatest Rainfall 2.83 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1975
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)

Weather Extremes for Macon County for September
Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 98°F in Franklin on 09-04-1975
Lowest Temperature 27°F in Franklin on 09-30-1967
Greatest Rainfall 11.87 inches in Highlands on09-29-1964
Greatest Snowfall snowfall has not been recorded during August in Macon County)

Record Weather Events for September 18th in North Carolina

Highest Temperature 106°F in Fayetteville, Cumberland County in 1931
Lowest Temperature 28°F in Marion, Mcdowell County in 2000
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.82 inches in Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County in 1928
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)

Weather Extremes for North Carolina for September
Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 108°F in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 09-25-1921
Lowest Temperature 23°F in Marion, McDowell County on 09-28-2000
Greatest Rainfall 21.00 inches in Wilmington, New Hanover County on 09-17-2018
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during August in the state)

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)

September 2024 Schedule

9-21-24---Bill Petersen, Zip Robertson & Cricket Woodward provide a Song Circle for us. You’ll hear blues, country, folk and more.......a variety of Americana with a variety of acoustic instruments. Enjoy their covers and originals.

For other Music and News follow us on Facebook at Friends of the Greenway, Inc. and Instagram at friends_of_the_greenway_inc. To find out more about the Greenway and our organization, our website is: littletennessee.org.

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---

Retired anchor Darcel Grimes awarded Order of the Long Leaf Pine | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)

---NATIONAL---
Videos and links to news articles

Springfield, Ohio, schools open with increased security amid threats | ABC News

Why ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Is Having A Make Or Break Moment | CNBC

• FBI investigating suspicious packages sent to election officials in more than a dozen states [WOIO-TV (Cleveland, OH)]

• The Fed’s biggest interest rate call in years happens Wednesday (today). Here’s what to expect [CNBC]

• Ex-Google exec said goal was to 'crush' competition, trial evidence shows [Reuters]

• Tupperware stock plummets on bankruptcy filing plans: BBG [Yahoo Finance]

• Overseas threats hit the Ohio city where Trump and Vance lied about Haitians eating pets [AP News]

• Senate IVF bill fails again to advance on mostly party line vote [ABC News]

• Texas medical program stops using unclaimed bodies following NBC News investigation [NBC News]

---2024 ELECTION ROUNDUP---

Tim Walz full speech at Asheville, NC campaign event (Sept. 17, 2024) | WFAA-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth, TX)

JD Vance holds a campaign rally in Sparta Township on Sept. 17, 2024 | WXMI-TV (Grand Rapids, MI)

• Election officials prepare for threats with panic buttons, bulletproof glass [AP News]

• Secret Service tells Trump more security, planning needed to continue golf outings [ABC News]

• 5 takeaways from Trump’s town hall with Sarah Huckabee Sanders [The Hill]

• Russian disinformation peddlers are targeting Harris-Walz campaign with fake videos, Microsoft says [NBC News]

• Trump campaigns in Michigan in first appearance since apparent assassination attempt [CBS News]

• Trump says that ‘only consequential presidents get shot at’ during Michigan event [Fox News]

International News Headlines

What we know so far about the deadly pager explosions in Lebanon | DW News

Eight killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers across Lebanon: Health Minister | Al Jazeera

• Israel’s war on Gaza live: Hezbollah blames Israel for Lebanon pager blasts [Al Jazeera]

• ‘Use it or lose it’: Israel reportedly triggered pagers amid fears plot had been exposed [Times of Israel]

• Starvation in war-hit Sudan 'almost everywhere' - WHO [BBC News]

• North Korea launches second set of short-range ballistic missiles in a week [France 24]

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 17, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]

• Iran Update (Israel-Hamas War), September 17, 2024[Institute for the Study of War]

---PRO-RUSSIAN NEWS OUTLETS---

• Ukrainian drone attack prompts partial evacuation in Russian town [Russia Today]

• Russian forces take Ukrainsk under control [Pravda]

• Russia’s battlegroup West repels three Ukrainian counterattacks in past day [TASS: Russian News Agency]

US East & Gulf Coast Dockworkers and Ports Are on a Countdown to a Strike ... 1 October 2024! | What's Going on With Shipping?

ashington Today (9-17-24): Secret Service budget may increase after latest assassination attempt | C-SPAN

Global National: Sept. 17, 2024 | Trudeau government could face confidence vote next week

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Sept. 17, 2024

"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | September 17, 2024

NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - Sept. 17, 2024

PBS NewsHour live episode, (Sept. 17, 2024)

---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---

Strange Blue Rock Phaethon Finally Has an Explanation of Its Strange Properties | Anton Petrov

The Level1 Show September 18th: Boldly Folding Where No Man Has Ever Folded Before | Level1 Techs

Smells Like Teen Spirit IG Accounts - DTNS 4856 | Daily Tech News Show

• Is the "Blaze Star" About to Blow? You May Be the First to Know [Sky and Telescope Magazine]

• The Sky This Week from September 13 to 20: A partial lunar eclipse plus an occultation [Astronomy Magazine]

• This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 13 – 22 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]

Sky & Telescope's Sky Tour Podcast – September 2024 | The Equinox and the Summer Triangle

• Update: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Might Outshine Predictions [Sky and Telescope Magazine]

AI Feels the Data Crunch | Sabine Hossenfelder

3D-Printing TUNGSTEN Radiation Shields! | Kyle Hill

Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This Virus | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

What La Niña Will do to Earth in 2025 | Astrum

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On This Day

September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 104 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)

96 – Domitian, who has been conducting a reign of terror for the past three years, is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects.

96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.

324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.

1048 – Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army and a Seljuq army.

1066 – Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England.

1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France at the age of fifteen.

1454 – Thirteen Years' War: In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic knights.

1544 – The expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene makes landfall in San Pedro Bay, southern Chile, claiming the territory for Spain.

1618 – The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.

1714 – George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1.

1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.

1759 – French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed.

1793 – The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.

1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.

1810 – First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.

1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.

1837 – Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".

1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.

1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.

1862 – The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.

1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between Confederate and Union forces. It involves the second highest amount of casualties for any American Civil War battle apart from Gettysburg.

1864 – American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.

1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.

1872 – King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.

1873 – The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.

1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

1895 – The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.

1898 – The Fashoda Incident, a territorial dispute between Britain and France, triggers a war scare.

1906 – The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.

1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.

1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.

1922 – The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.

1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.

1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.

1931 – Imperial Japan instigates the Mukden Incident as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.

1934 – The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.

1939 – World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.

1939 – World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda.

1940 – World War II: The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.

1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.

1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.

1944 – World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins.

1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo.

1947 – The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.

1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.

1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.

1954 – Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western Head of State to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.

1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.

1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.

1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.

1977 – Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.

1981 – The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.

1982 – The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end.

1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.

1988 – The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.

1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.

1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.

1997 – The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.

2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.

2011 – The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.

2012 – Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England.

2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.

2015 – Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.

2016 – The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.

2021 – A ferry capsized in China's southern Guizhou province due to bad weather killing ten people and five missing.

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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins

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