Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Above-normal temperatures and an active weather pattern will persist through next week. A frontal system will bring showers and possibly a few thunderstorms to the area on Wednesday while another system will impact the area late next week.
Possible Dense Fog This Morning
Patchy dense fog this morning, especially in the river valleys. Please us caution on area roadways and turn on your headlights so other drivers can see your vehicle.
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General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 60s.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly after 10pm. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 80%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog before 10pm, then patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Light and variable winds increasing and shifting to come out of the east around 5 mph after midnight.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly between 10pm and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 9am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly after 9pm. The rain could be heavy at times. Lows around 50. Chance of rain is 80%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers between 8pm and 1am. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows around 48. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of rain is 20%.
Monday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 69. Calm winds becoming south southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 51. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly after 9pm. Lows around 51. Chance of rain is 80%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Patchy fog between 7am and 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming light and variable before midnight.
Monday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph.
Tuesday
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 9am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s.
Tuesday Night
Showers, mainly after 9pm. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain is 80%.
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Hazards
Patchy dense fog is possible this morning, especially in the river valleys. Please us caution on area roadways and turn on your headlights so other drivers can see your vehicle.
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Record Weather Events for March 3rd
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 82°F in Franklin in 1976
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Franklin in 1980
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.72 inches in Highlands in 1934
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 9.0 inches in Nantahala in 1942
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
3-2-24—Bill Peterson & Charley Simmons--What a treat! You'll hear originals by both these guys along with some covers. Bill has that booming voice on his blues selections (ask him to play his cheeky dog songs:) & Charley has the finger-style guitar down pat with his songs.
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
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 2, 2024 | US carries out 1st humanitarian aid airdrop to Gaza
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - March 02, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | March 02, 2024
Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 02 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (March 02, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Battle for Reality: String Theory vs Quantum Field Theory | Arvin Ash
• The Sky This Week from February 23 to March 1: Catch a chilly Full Snow Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 23 to March 3 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show March 1 2024: Big Rat Energy | Level1 Techs
Large Language Money - DTNS 4717 | Daily Tech News Show
The Exotic Stars Lurking Within Our Universe | Astrum
Revise the textbooks: New type of magnetism confirmed | Sabine Hossenfelder
Why Does Everything Decay Into Lead | SciShow
• Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns [New York Times]
• ‘Killer robots’ are coming, and U.N. is worried [Harvard Gazaette]
• SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]
• Why is Japan's chip czar welcoming TSMC with open arms? [Commonwealth Magazine]
• 'It's my job': Salesforce's Marc Benioff tracked journalist in Hawaii, per report [SF Gate]
• Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? [Scientific American]
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History Video Section---
NASA DART Mission May Have Completely Resurfaced The Asteroi | Antov Petrov
The Paradox of an Infinite Universe | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
How Private Data and Big Tech Are Controlling Your Life | Curious Droid
The quantum world: Dreams and delusions | Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Michio Kaku, and more! | The institute of Art and Ideas
Kasm: the Open Source Workspace Streaming Platform | Michael Tunnell
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On This Day
March 3rd is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 303 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)
473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
1575 – Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Sultan of Bengal Daud Khan Karrani's army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
1799 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1849 – The Territory of Minnesota is created.
1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1859 – The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, concludes.
1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
1878 – The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
1891 – Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
1913 – Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
1918 – Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, agreeing to withdraw from World War I, and conceding German control of the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. It also conceded Turkish control of Ardahan, Kars and Batumi.
1924 – The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1939 – In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleå, Sweden.
1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
1943 – World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
1944 – A freight train carrying stowaway passengers stalls in a tunnel shortly after departing from Balvano, Basilicata, Italy just after midnight, with 517 dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.
1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila.
1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout area of The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953 – A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1958 – Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1986 – The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom.
1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1991 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on its final approach to Colorado Springs.
2005 – James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
2005 – Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006, where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim area.
2017 – The Nintendo Switch releases worldwide.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, March 03, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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