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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will remain in place through mid week, permitting above normal temperatures to persist through Thursday. A cold front will cross the area Friday or Friday night, bringing a chance of rain for at least parts of the area. Much cooler temperatures are in store for next weekend.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs in the lower 80s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the monring increasing to come out of the east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. East northeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. East wind 3 to 5 mph.
Tuesday
Partly sunny through midmorning, then becoming sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. East northeast wind around 5 mph.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Partly sunny through midmorning, then becoming sunny, with highs near 80. Calm in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.
Space Weather
Massive Filament Launch Brings Earth-directed Solar Storm | Informal Forecast 16 September 2023
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Record Weather Events for October 2nd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 90°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2019
Lowest Temperature 27°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1946
Greatest Rainfall 2.97 inches in Highlands in 1988
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of October Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 10-05-1954
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Highlands on 10-30-1910
Greatest Rainfall 9.91 inches in Highlands on 10-04-1954
Greatest Snowfall 1.0 inHighlands on 10-20-1913
Record Weather Events for October 2nd in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 99°F in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County in 2019
Lowest Temperature 23°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2011
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.00 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1929
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of October Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 103°F in Wadesboro, Anson County on 10-03-2019
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Banner Elk, Avery County on 10-21-1952
Greatest Rainfall 12.53 inches in Lumberton, Robeson County on 10-08-2016
Greatest Snowfall 11.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on10-25-1990
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Saturdays in August from 11am to 1pm
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
9/23/23
11-Noon—Sonia Brooks—a talented lady who aims to keep the old folk songs popular with all ages. If you're of the Gen X generation, you probably first heard these songs when you were young.
Noon-1pm---Jay Baird—a guy who who is all Americana, getting into folk and other songs we haven’t heard in years. If you're a Baby Boomer, some of these songs you've heard as a kid.
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!
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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.
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Local and State News
MISSING: Officials seek public's help locating 70-year-old man last seen on foot in Macon County [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• 'A government shutdown hurts everyone:' Rep. Chuck Edwards votes in favor of short-term funding bill [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Why NC lawmakers are betting $3 billion on professors, sewers and NASCAR in new state budget [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC NAACP president earns second term with majority of vote [Raleigh News and Observer]
---Recent News Recap--- October 01, 2023 --> • MISSING: Officials seek public's help locating 70-year-old man last seen on foot in Macon County [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Voter Registration and Voter ID Drive Scheduled for October 7th in Otto [Macon Media]
• New NC budget likely headed to court over separation of powers [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Cooper vetoes GOP bill shifting appointment power over election boards to legislature [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Fed Up [BPR]
• State Budget Commits Substantial Funding To Critical Needs In WNC [Smoky Mountain News]
---NORTH CAROLINA BUDGET PROCESS---
• HB259 NC House Bill Budget Substitute [PDF Download (640 pages)]
Proposed State Budget for 2023-2025 [Download PDF]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners March 2023 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
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National and World News Roundup
Jimmy Carter celebrates 99th birthday | CBS Evening News
Rep. Matt Gaetz threatens to trigger vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker | NBC News
• Americans Are Still Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow [Wall Street Journal]
• A Battered Supreme Court Returns to Confront a Challenging Docket [New York Times]
• Attorney General Garland says in interview he’d resign if Biden asked him to take action on Trump [AP News]
• Marion police chief suspended after raid of Marion County Record newspaper in Kansas [CNN]
International News Headlines
Kurdish militants claim responsibility for bombing in Turkey | CBS News
• Turkey strikes Kurdish PKK targets in Iraq after Ankara suicide bombing [France 24]
• Panama Canal reduces the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day [AP News]
• US offers $5m reward for information on Ecuador election assassination [BBC News]
• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 586 [Al Jazeera]
• Suicide bombings at two mosques in Pakistan kill at least 57 [Taiwan News]
Face the Nation: Graham, Esper, Fitzpatrick
9/28: CBS Evening News
Washington Today (9-28-23): House holds first hearing in impeachment inquiry of President Biden | C-SPAN
Global National: Oct. 1, 2023 | Banff National Park grizzly bear attack leaves 2 people dead
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Oct. 1 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (October 01, 2023)
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County:
Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Macon County Public Health will stop publishing weekly COVID updates but will continue to monitor local case levels and trends. In the event that case counts increase significantly, MCPH will notify the public and resume weekly COVID updates.
• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]
In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 June 2023, a total of 668,882,018 vaccine doses have been administered.
Globally, as of 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 770,085,713 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,956,173 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 27 August 2023, a total of 13,499,983,736 vaccine doses have been administered.
COVID • O.C. doctor charged with defrauding COVID healthcare program of $150 million [Los Angeles Times (via Yahoo News)]
• Covid hunters: the amateur sleuths tracking the virus and its variants [The Guardian (UK)]
• Vaccine specialist Peter Hotez: scientists are ‘under attack for someone else’s political gain’ [nature]
• As Covid Infections Rise, Nursing Homes Are Still Waiting for Vaccines [New York Times]
• TWiV 1044: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1045: Less Lassa, CRISPR RNA viruses [Microbe TV]
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Science and Technology News Roundup
• The Sky This Week from September 29 to October 6: The year’s last Super Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• The annular eclipse is coming soon. Here’s where and when to see it [Astronomy Magazine]
• A food delivery robot's footage led to a criminal conviction in LA href="https://www.engadget.com/a-food-delivery-robots-footage-led-to-a-criminal-conviction-in-la-190854339.html?guccounter=1?utm_source=MaconMedia.com">engadget]
• Our 10-point scale will help you rate the biggest misinformation purveyors [ARS TECHNICA]
• How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson [The Verge]
• Psyche Asteroid Mission Set for Launch October 5th [Sky and Telescope]
• Cannibalistic Dads May Be Contributing to Hellbender Salamander Declines [Scientific American]
Evergreen Links
• Red Dead Online player bids farewell to Google Stadia save by releasing horse they named after their departed daughter [Games Radar]
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 69 - Twilight of the Æsir
Hardcore History: Addendum EP26 Dig This! | Dan Carlin
• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]
• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]
How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain
• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Cinetimes]
Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
The Level1 Show September 29 2023: Reading Robots Results In Rage | Level1 Techs
What is an Embryo Model? - DTNS 4614 Extended | Daily Tech News Show
The Earth 500,000 Years Ago | 500,000 Subscribers Special | Ben G Thomas
Fermi Paradox: Alien Civilizations Consume their Home Worlds | John Michael Godier
Raspberry Pi 5 | Explaining Computers
Coder 537: Unity Mutiny | Jupiter Broadcasting
We told you so! - NSA hacked Huawei? MS big AI data blunder, ValiDrive update | Security Now | TWiT TV
Matters Microbial #9: Colorful microbes, citizen science, and tools for all | Microbe TV
Outside of the Nerdery - Google's 25th birthday, Meta Ray-Bans, Amazon and Google antitrust trial | This Week in Google | TWiT TV
Life on Mars: The Ongoing Mystery of the Viking Life Detections | John Michael Godier
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Civilization: Is the West History? | Episode 2: Science | BBC Select
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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)
Biden says US ‘will not walk away’ from Ukraine amid budget turmoil [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 1, 2023 [Institute for the Study of War]
• Ukraine updates: Borrell visits Odesa, pledges support [DW News]
• HOUR BY HOUR - 🔴 Liveblog: Zelensky honours troops on Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces Day [France 24]
US ATACMS Missiles and Abrams Tanks: Is Russia losing Crimea? | To the point | DW News
Assault on Russian positions by Kara-Dag unit fighters | Military Mind | TVP World
No, USA Today did not report that Zelensky's delegate started a 'drunken bar brawl' in New York | France 24
Ukraine war: Rare access to hometown of frontline soldiers | BBC Newsnight
NATO chief: Ukraine fighting Russia's imperial delusions | WION Pulse
🔴 (NSFW) Combat Footage Show: F-35 Freebies, Klischiivka, POWs Not Allowed | Funker530
News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or articles/video about those who support Russia
Col Douglas Macgregor Full Interview: "This Escalates The Conflict" | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor
• Ukrainian drone strike causes blackout in Russia – governor
[Russia Today]
• Iran to supply UAVs and missiles to Russia for massive strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces[Pravda]
• EU wages undeclared war on migrants — Russia’s envoy to UN [TASS Russian News Agency]
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On This Day
October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 90 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
1263 – The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1470 – The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1552 – Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan.
1780 РAmerican Revolutionary War: John Andr̩, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
1789 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
1835 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1864 – American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.
1870 – By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
1937 – Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic.
1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1968 – Mexican President Gustavo DÃaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
1970 – An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
1971 – South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.
1992 РMilitary police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in Ṣo Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
1996 РAeroper̼ Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.
2004 – The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
2016 – Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
2018 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
2019 – A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, October 02, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center.
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