OUTLOOK
A nearly stationary front stretching from the central Gulf of Mexico across central Florida to the western Atlantic will drift further southeast away from our region. A strong cold front crosses the area Wednesday, with much below normal temperatures across the region for a couple of days. A more significant low pressure may cross our region Saturday and Saturday night.
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National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
A slight chance of showers before noon. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 60.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-30s.
Highlands area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 15 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the west after midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 50.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
Otto area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 60.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-30s.
Nantahala area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light winds out of the southeast in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph.
Wednesday
A 20 percent chance of showers before 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-30s.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
An unseasonably cold air mass will move into the area behind a cold front Wednesday night. Temperatures will likely cool enough to support frost/freeze conditions early Thursday. As the air mass lingers over the area, frost/freeze conditions will again be possible early Friday. Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
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 being in the extreme lower range of yellow.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.2 out of 12) today with Oak, SweetGum, Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to also be in the high range (10.9 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on April 20th
Highest Temperature 87°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2002
Lowest Temperature 17°F in Franklin in 1983
Greatest Rainfall 3.09 inches in Highlands in 1893
Greatest Snowfall 1.5 inches in Highlands in 1901
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
Macon Calendar
There will be a Poor Man's Supper at the Carson Community Center on Saturday, April 24th, from 4pm to 7pm to benefit the Arise and Shine Women's Recovery Center.
Menu: Pinto Beans, Cornbread, Mac and Cheese, Fried Cabbage or Slaw, and a Dessert.
Plates cost $7 each.
Contact Carol Anne Bowers, Ann McWhite, or call the Arise and Shine Thrift Store at 828-634-0217 for more information.
They have a Facebook Page at Arise and Shine Women's Recovery Center
Thrift Store Location: 3001 Old Murphy Rd.
Donations being accepted at the location.
Monetary donations may be sent to:
Arise & Shine Women's Recovery Center
Po Box 913
Franklin, NC 28744
Friends of the Greenway
Friends of the Greenway would like to invite you to FROG FAIR, our spring arts & crafts fair on May 8, 2021, from 9-3 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main St, Franklin (at the Town bridge). We want to provide an outlet for area artists and crafters. As a fundraiser event for FROG, we collect a vendor registration fee, will offer a continental breakfast and lunch special, and hold a 50/50 drawing. Area musicians will perform throughout the day. Mark your calendar and come enjoy the day. Stop by FROG Quarters Wednesday-Saturday between 9-2 to become a registered vendor or to purchase 50/50 drawing tickets. Hope to see you on May 8. For vendor information, email us at frog28734@gmail.com.
On This Day
April 20th is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 255 days remain until the end of the year. Historical Events
Highlights
295 – 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
850 – Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne
1139 – 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1453 – Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
1534 – Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
1535 – The sun dog phenomenon is observed over Stockholm, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1689 – Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
1770 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 – The Septinsular Republic is established.
1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
1828 – René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter (and the first to return from) Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing.
1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.[4]
1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
1876 – The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.
1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
1945 – World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1961 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
1972 – Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.
1979 - President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit which swam up to his fishing boat in Plains, Georgia
1980 - Cuban President Fidel Castro announces he is opening the Mariel Port for Cubans to leave, about 125,00 leave in next 5-6 months
1983 - President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
1998 – Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.[7]
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
2007 – Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
2012 – One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
2015 – Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
2020 - Three US states, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina the 1st to announce end to some COVID-19 restrictions
2020 - Price of US oil turns negative for the 1st time in history - West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark for US oil, falls as low as minus $37.63 a barrel as worldwide demand falls
2020 - The last three cruise ships still afloat amid Covid pandemic, finally dock at the ports of Marseille, France; Barcelona, Spain; and Los Angeles California
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