News and Weather Briefing for Thursday, March 28, 2024
Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Low pressure will develop along a stalled frontal boundary over the eastern Carolinas, keeping clouds and intermittent rain along and east of Interstate 77 through early today then the front will move to the East Coast. Drier and warmer weather is expected Friday into the first part of next week. A cold front is forecast to reach our region from the northwest in the middle of the week bringing another chance of rain and cooler temperatures.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light winds out of the northwest early in the morning increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the north 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Windy.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the north 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Windy.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Nantahala Area
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Back to Top Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (11.5 out of 12) today with Maple, Juniper, and Oak being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.1 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 28th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 85°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2020
Lowest Temperature 14°F in Franklin in 1982
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.64 inches in Highlands in 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 2.3 inches in Highlands in 1893
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of March Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 87°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-29-2020
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on 03-07-1899
Greatest Rainfall 6.61 inches in Highlands on 03-26-2021
Greatest Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-13-1993
News Briefing
—STATE AND LOCAL—
Homelessness numbers surged 64 percent in a year in one North Carolina county | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
NCAA president calls for ban on prop bets in college sports | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
• Not even hungry caterpillars like Bradford pears [Sylva Herald and Ruralite]
• NCAA president calls for ban on prop bets in college sports [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• As WCU set to expand engineering department, defense contractor to add nearly 100 jobs [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• All together now: Haywood Tourism Development Authority eyes countywide approach [Smoky Mountain News]
• Gardening with Xpress: Replenish the soil so your plants can ‘eat’ [Mountain Xpress]
• NC Wildlife to stock over 600,000 trout in 1,000 miles of hatchery supported waters [Asheville Citizen-Times]
—NATIONAL—
International News Headlines
Paris prepares security operation for 2024 Olympics | NBC News
ISIS-K Moscow attacks – who is at risk? | DW News Desk
Why is ISIS-K attacking Russia? | About That | CBS News
• Strikes by IDF, Hezbollah kill several in Lebanon and Israel [DW News]
• Haiti’s future governing council vows to restore public order [France 24]
• Burnings and beheadings: Myanmar junta escalates terror tactics against its people [CNN]
• Russia executed at least 32 Ukrainian POWs since December 2023: report [TVP World]
• Denying Russia’s Only Strategy for Success [xxx]
• Israel’s war on Gaza liveblog: Unarmed Palestinians killed, buried by bulldozer [Al Jazeera]
• Israel prepares for Rafah incursion as rescued hostages detail time in captivity [Jerusalem Post]
Global National: March 27, 2024 | 2 bodies recovered in Baltimore bridge crash, 4 still missing
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – March 27, 2024
“CBS Weekend News” Full Broadcast | March 27 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast – March 27 NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (March 27 2024)
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, March 28, 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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