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OUTLOOK
Abundant moisture across the region will lead to solid daily rain chances through the middle of the week. A strong cold front will arrive from the northwest by late Wednesday, and bring the potential for strong storms ahead of the front. High pressure will build in behind the front and bring cooler and drier air for the rest of the week.
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Local News
[COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County (September 8, 2021)]
[Franklin Town Council Meeting for September 2021]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Wednesday Night
Franklin area
Today
Showers likely, mainly after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain before 9pm, then showers, mainly after 9pm. Patchy fog. Lows in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the mid-70s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High in the low-to-mid 70s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Chance of rain is 60%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers after 2pm. Patchy fog before 11am. Highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers. Patchy fog. Lows around 60. East wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three-quarters and one inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. High in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely before 2am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 2am and 4am, then showers likely after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Highs in the mid-60s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Otto area
Today
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm, then showers after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Rain before 9pm, then showers after 9pm. Patchy fog. Low in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. High in the mid-70s. Calm winds becoming east southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High in the low-to-mid 70s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers likely, mainly after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs near 70. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain before 1am, then showers likely between 1am and 3am, then rain likely after 3am. Patchy fog. Low in the mid-60s. Winds out of the east wind around 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Rain likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds out of the east. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Chance of rain is 90%.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Chance of rain is 60%.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Heavy rain focused near the escarpment and in embedded thunderstorms will expand across the region today and continue into Tuesday in response to a developing moist low level jet. The location of the heavier axis of rain may shift Wednesday as the low level jet exits the region and a cold front approaches from the west. The threat of flooding will ramp up late Monday into Tuesday and possibly linger into Wednesday. A strong cold front will drive much drier air into the region by Thursday, putting an end to the inclement weather.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Sep 20 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Peter, located a few hundred miles east of the northernmost Leeward Islands, and on Tropical Storm Rose, located several hundred miles west of the southernmost Cabo Verde Islands.
1. A tropical wave located over the far eastern tropical Atlantic several hundred miles southeast of the Cabo Verde Islands is producing an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development over the next several days, and a tropical depression could form later this week while the system moves westward at 10 to 15 mph across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic Ocean.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.
2. A storm-force, non-tropical low pressure system, the remnants of Odette, is located a couple of hundred miles southeast of Newfoundland. This low could acquire some subtropical characteristics by the middle of this week as it moves slowly eastward and then southeastward over warmer waters across the north-central Atlantic Ocean. Additional information on this system, including storm warnings, can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent.
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Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the lower range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (6.3 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.8 out of 12).
Weather Almanac for September 20th (1872-2020)
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
Highest Temperature 95°F in Highlands in 1925
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Highlands in 1903
Greatest Rainfall 4.95 inches in Highlands in 1924
Record Weather Events for September (1872-2017)
Highest Temperature 98°F in Franklin on Sept 4, 1975
Lowest Temperature 27°F in Franklin on Sept 30, 1967
Greatest Rainfall 11.87 inches in Highlands on Sept 29, 1964
Record weather events for this date and month in Macon County
Record Weather Events for Sept 1st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 105°F in Goldsboro, Wayne County in 1932
Lowest Temperature 33°F in Boone, Watauga County in 1946
Greatest Rainfall 8.98 inches in Andrews, Cherokee County in 1982
Record Weather Events for September in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 109°F in Weldon, Halifax County on 09-07-1954
Lowest Temperature 23°F in Marion, McDowell County on 09-28-2000
Greatest Rainfall 18.30 inches in Southport, Brunswick County on 09-16-1999
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
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FROG FAIR
November 6, 2021
Friends of the Greenway Fall Fundraising Event. FROG FAIR will be held November 6 from 9-3 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main at the Town bridge. Vendor spaces are available--check our website for registration forms or stop by FROG Quarters. Make sure to mark your calendar--arts and crafts, food, and music will make it a special day. For more information, email frog28734@gmail.com.
Encastic Painting Classes
The Macon County Art Association (a not for profit member organization) is offering classes in encastic painting on Specified Fridays from 10AM-12PM at the Uptown Gallery 30 E Main St Franklin NC. Specific class dates are Friday July 9 and 23, August 3 and 27, September 3 and 17, October 29.
For more information contact the instructor, Karen Smith, at karen@programservices.org
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National News Roundup
Haitians on Texas border undeterred by US plan to expel them [AP News]
Inspiration4 and the quest to cure childhood cancer [The Hill]
Dow futures drop more than 400 points after index notches three straight losing weeks for first time in 2021 [CNBC]
Gas price rise: Government considering loans for energy firms [Yahoo! News]
Australia made 'huge mistake,' French ambassador says
France's Macron to hold call with Biden amid crisis over submarines
Body found in search for Gabby Petito
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - September 19th, 2021
PBS NewsHour full episode, September 19th, 2021
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Since it looks like we may be in for a new wave of infections, here is a section on COVID-19. It will include local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [September 9, 2021]
TWiV 807: The shot yearned ’round the world with Chadi Saad-Roy and Caroline Wagner [Microbe TV]
How Ivermectin Became The New Focus Of The Anti-Vaccine Movement [NPR]
Memorial Along National Mall Offers Stark Reminder of Virus’s Toll [New York Times]
LIVE: Americans who died from COVID-19 honored with flags on the National Mall
Consumption of Phenolic-Rich Food and Dietary Supplements as a Key Tool in SARS-CoV-19 Infection [Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute]
The days of full covid coverage are over. Insurers are restoring deductibles and co-pays, leaving patients with big bills. [Washington Post]
PHD Comics: The COVID-19 Virus Explained [PhD Comics]
Covid-stricken Alabama had more deaths than births last year, a first in its recorded history. [New York Times]
Early Social Distancing Policies in Europe, Mobility Change and COVID‐19 Case Trajectories: Lessons from Spring 2020 [Wiley Online Library]
COVID-19 vaccines: Keeping pace with SARS-CoV-2 variants [Cell]
Georgia professor: ‘We are teaching in COVID factories’ [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
Horse owners can’t find ivermectin as Americans flock to unproven coronavirus cure [Washington Post]
COVID-19’s official worldwide death toll is 4.5M; Economist’s model concludes the actual number could be 15M [Oregon Live]
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On This Day
September 20th is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 102 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)
1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland.
1066 – At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Fulford]
• [The Battle of Fulford 1066 AD]
• [HistoryPod Video]
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [LINKTEXT]
• [LINKTEXT]
1260 – The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1498 – The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in. It has been outside since then.
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
• [Wikipedia: Magellan expedition]
• [Ferdinand Magellan - First Circumnavigation of the Earth]
• [Great Voyages: Ferdinand Magellan, 'Our One True Guide': The First Circumnavigation of the Globe]
1697 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.
1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km2) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1792 – French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
1835 – The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.
1854 – Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Alma]
• [[UKTV History] Crimean War 1853-1856 - World War Zero]
1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
1860 – The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Chickamauga]
• [Chickamauga: Animated Battle Map]
• ["Shadow in the Valley: The Battle of Chickamauga" - Complete Civil War Docu-Drama]
1870 – The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.
1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming president upon James A. Garfield's death.
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1911 – The White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with the British warship HMS Hawke.
1920 – Irish War of Independence: British police known as "Black and Tans" burned the town of Balbriggan and killed two local men in revenge for an Irish Republican Army (IRA) assassination.
1941 – The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police begin a mass execution of 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.
• [The Site and Grave of Mass Massacre of Jews in Nemenčinė]
1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1946 – Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands.
1954 – The first Moomins comic strip was published in the British newspaper The Evening News.
1955 – The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1965 – Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in course of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched Clydebank, Scotland.
1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
• [Wikipedia: Hurricane Irene–Olivia]
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
• [LINKTEXT]
• [Tennis Battle of the Sexes special (September 20, 1973)]
• [LINKTEXT]
1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
1977 – Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1979 – A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
1982 – 1982 NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.
1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
2000 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
• [Wikipedia: War on terror]
• [President George W. Bush’s address to a joint session of Congress following 9/11 - Sept. 20, 2001]
• [Text of Speech]
2003 – Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.
2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
2011 – The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
2017 – Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.
2018 – At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.
2019 – Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.
• [School strike for climate]
• [Greta Thunberg leads New York protest for climate change action]
• [Make the World Greta Again (Full Documentary) - Time's 2019 Person of the Year]
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Published at 4:00am on Monday, September 20, 2021
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