OUTLOOK
High pressure is expected to build in through Monday, leading to drier conditions. Another cold front will likely cross the area during the middle of next week, possibly bringing more precipitation to the area Wednesday. Drier and cooler air returns Thursday and continues into the weekend.
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National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Tuesday Night
Franklin area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 70. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to ocme out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Light winds out of the northwest.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s.
Highlands area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the west 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s.
Otto area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through midmorning, then gradual clearing, with highs near 70. Light winds out of the southwest early increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s.
Nantahala area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds early increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the extreme upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today also being in the upper green range.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.8 out of 12) today with Oak, Juniper, and Birch being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to also be in the high range (11.5 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on April 11th
Highest Temperature 88°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2001
Lowest Temperature 18°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1960
Greatest Rainfall 3.85 inches in Highlands in 1913
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (there has been no recorded snowfall on this date)
April Weather Extremes for Macon County
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on April 26, 1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands on April 1, 1987
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.00 inches in Highlands on April 7, 1895
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 9.5 inches in Franklin on April 4, 1987
On This Day
April 9th is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 2667 days remain until the end of the year. Historical Events
491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, as Anastasius I - often called the first Byzantine Emperor
672 - Deusdedit II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory.
1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
1809 – An incomplete British victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Basque Roads results in the court-martial of James, Lord Gambier.
1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
1856 – Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1868 – Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 – Korean War: President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.
1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
1964 – Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected President by the National Congress.
1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1968 – Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
1976 – The Apple I is created.
1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.
2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
2007 – Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
2018 – An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.
2019 - Ex-Pope Benedict XVI claims Catholic sexual abuse caused in part by 1960s sexual revolution
2020 - Brazil is the 1st country in the southern hemisphere to report more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, with 1,056 deaths and 19,638 cases
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Published at 3:47am on Sunday, April 11, 2021
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