Here is an index to assist you in moving from section to section within the article.
Back to Top
Local News
Weather
Hazards and Tropical Weather
Almanac
Macon Calendar
National News Roundup
COVID-19 News and Updates
On This Day
Support Macon Media
OUTLOOK
Abundant moisture across the region will lead to widespread rain, especially over the mountains and adjacent foothills 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.
---BEGIN SPONSOR SEGMENT---
Weather Sponsor
Adams Products, a Division of Oldcastle is underwriting the daily weather briefing & public safety updates for the month.
Open 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM, M-F, located at 895 Hickory Knoll Road, Franklin, NC. Visit our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/Adams.Oldcastle.Franklin.NC
All your masonry needs are available. Our phone number is 828.524.8545, the public is welcome, we’ll help you with your next project.
DAY SPONSOR
Carrion Tree Service is underwriting Macon Media for today. they are a fully insured with workers comp and general liability tree service, specializing in dangerous tree removal, view clearing, pruning, and crane services with a 24 Hour emergency response.
Their phone number is 371-4718.
They can handle all your tree removal needs in good or bad weather.
---END SPONSOR SEGMENT------
Back to Top
Local News
[COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County (September 8, 2021)]
[Franklin Town Council Meeting for September 2021]
Back to Top
Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
Showers. Patchy fog before 11am. Highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Light winds out of the east. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers likely before 11pm, then rain likely between 11pm and 2am, then showers likely after 2am. Patchy fog between 10pm and 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Wednesday
Showers before noon, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between noon and 3pm, then showers likely after 3pm. Highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely, mainly before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-40s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers. Patchy fog. Highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain likely before 2am, then showers likely after 2am. Patchy fog before 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Wednesday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. High in the mid-60s. Light and variable winds early increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely, mainly before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s.
Thursday Night
Clear, with lows in the lower 40s.
Otto area
Today
Showers. Patchy fog before 1pm. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers likely before 10pm, then rain likely between 10pm and 2am, then showers likely after 2am. Patchy fog between 9pm and 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Wednesday
Showers before 11am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 11am and 3pm, then showers likely after 3pm. Highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night
Showers likely, mainly before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Thursday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid-40s.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Patchy fog before 11am. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Patchy fog between 11pm and 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday
Showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds early increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-40s.
Back to Top
Hazards and Tropical Weather
A Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 8pm tonight, and may be extended into tomorrow.
Additional heavy rain will be possible on Wednesday as a cold front crosses the region. As a result, The threat of flooding will possibly linger into or redevelop on Wednesday.
Flash Flood Watch
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
948 PM EDT Mon Sep 20 2021
.Abundant moisture across the region will lead to widespread rain, especially over the mountains and North Carolina foothills through the middle of the week.
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING...
The Flash Flood Watch continues for
* Portions of northeast Georgia, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina, including the following areas,
In northeast Georgia,
Habersham and Rabun.
In western North Carolina, Eastern Polk, Greater Rutherford, Henderson, Macon, Polk Mountains, Rutherford Mountains, Southern Jackson and Transylvania.
In upstate South Carolina,
Greenville Mountains, Oconee Mountains and Pickens Mountains.
* Through this evening.
* A plume of sub-tropical moisture will continue to overspread the area tonight into today. Upslope flow will result in periods of heavy rainfall, especially along the Blue Ridge Escarpment. The peak of the heavy rainfall is expected late tonight through this morning. Rainfall totals of 2-4" are expected through tonight.
* With the amount of rainfall expected, rapid rises will occur along smaller creeks and streams, with some likely overflowing their banks into low-lying areas and roads. Minor mainstem river flooding can`t be ruled out. Urban flooding will be possible as well, mainly in poor drainage and low-lying areas.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Tue Sep 21 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Peter, located about 100 miles north of the northern Leeward Islands, and on Tropical Storm Rose, located over the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean.
1. Showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave located a few hundred miles south-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands continue to show some signs of organization. Environmental conditions are expected to become more conducive for development, and a tropical depression is likely to 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...medium...50 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent.
2. A storm-force, non-tropical low pressure system, the remnants of Odette, is located several hundred miles southeast of Newfoundland. This low could acquire some subtropical characteristics during the next few days while it moves slowly southeastward over warmer waters across the north-central Atlantic Ocean. However, the system is expected to turn northward back over cooler waters this weekend, which should end its chances of becoming a subtropical storm. 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...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent.
Back to Top
Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the middle range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.6 out of 12) today with Ragweed, Chenopods, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.0 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
Back to Top
Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
IMAGE A TASTE OF TUSCANY
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 & crafts, food, & 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
Back to Top
National News Roundup
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - September 20th, 2021
PBS NewsHour full episode, September 20th, 2021
Back to Top
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 20, 2021]
Analysis of the upper respiratory tract microbiota in mild and severe COVID-19 patients [BioRxiv]
Self-reported and physiological reactions to the third BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 (booster) vaccine dose [MedRxiv]
mRNA vaccination of naive and COVID-19-recovered individuals elicits potent memory B cells that recognize SARS-CoV-2 variants [Cell]
Quantitative measurement of infectious virus in SARS-CoV-2 Alpha, Delta and Epsilon variants reveals higher infectivity (viral titer:RNA ratio) in clinical samples containing the Delta and Epsilon variants. [MedRxiv]
How the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19: A Darwinian perspective [PNAS]
Back to Top
On This Day
September 21st is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 101 days remain until the end of the year. It is occasionally the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere, though this usually falls on September 22 or September 23..
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
1170 – The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders.
1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
1435 – The Congress of Arras causes Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.
1745 – A Hanoverian army is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1792 – French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
1809 – British Secretary of War Lord Castlereagh and Foreign Secretary George Canning meet in a duel on Putney Heath, with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.
1843 – The crew of schooner Ancud, including John Williams Wilson, takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the Chilean government.
1860 – Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
1896 – Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
1933 – Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.
1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than 3,000 people.
1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by the Iron Guard.
1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
1942 – The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
1942 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1949 – The People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
1953 – Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
1957 – Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.
1964 – Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1965 – The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
1971 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos begins authoritarian rule by declaring martial law.
1976 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.
1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations.
1991 – Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.
1996 – The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.
1997 – St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, was burnt down by a burglar.
1999 – The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
2001 – Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
2003 – The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
2012 – Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
2013 – Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
2019 – A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
Back to Top
Support Macon Media
If you receive value from what Macon Media provides to the community, please consider becoming a supporter and contribute at least a dollar a month. Those who support Macon Media with at least a dollar a month receive early access to video of some events and meetings before they are made public on the website. Videos and news involving public safety are not subject to early access.
Or, if you prefer Pay Pal, try PayPal.me/MaconMedia
Published at 4:15am on Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to the 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. Back to Top
Posts
0 comments :
Post a Comment