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OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will continue to build into the region through the holiday weekend. Warm and generally dry conditions will continue well into next week, as high pressure dominates over the Southeast. A relatively dry cold front will approach from the west late in the week.
The Macon County Board of Elections met yesterday for a canvass of votes in the May 2022 primary. Of 38 Provisional Ballots 22 were rejected and 16 approved. 1 ballot that was cast will be removed from the primary day count. All 22 mail-in ballots postmarked on or before May 17th were accepted. 1 Overseas ballot was accepted. Rasons ballots were rejected ranged from voting in the werong party, to attempts to vote more than once, yo a felony conviction. The ballots will be added to the primary totals at the Tuesday, May 31st meeting of the Board of elections. The objection filed by Robert Cook will be addressed during a public hearing scheduled to occur during this meeting. [See/Download PDF Copy of Protest]
Here is video of John Noce (a Security and Support Technician with the NC State Board of Elections) explaining the error that caused Democrats to be double-counted for turnout statistics. This is the error that led Cook, a candidate for Sheriff, to file an objection to the "Entire Macon County Election Totals." Graham County had the same sort of error in their results. They use the same Unity software that Macon County uses.
2022 Election Canvass Excerpt 1
Facebook and Youtube both rejected the video of John Noce explaining theMacon Media filed appeals with both Facebook and Youtube. Youtube reversed their decision and the video can now be seen.
• A recount in Macon County Sheriff's Race will occur on Saturday, June 4th in the Robert C Carpenter Building in the gym [Board of Elections on Facebook]
• Uvalde Police Made ‘Wrong Decision’ in Waiting to Storm Shooter, Says Texas Official [Wall Street Journal]
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Friday and Saturday, May 27th and 28th 26th Annual Swain County Heritage Festival [Facebook Event Page]
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Monday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Light winds out of the north.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Memorial Day
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the calm by midmorning.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light winds out of the east.
Memorial Day
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming calm in the morning.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Memorial Day
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60.
Nantahala Area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Calm winds.
Sunday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Memorial Day
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Sunny, with highs near 80.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today. Area mainstem rivers are still high due to the recent rain event. Please use extreme caution in regards to swimming and boating in the county for the next few days.
Record Weather Events for May 28th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 90°F in Franklin in 1967
Lowest Temperature 30°F in at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1961
Greatest Rainfall 3.60 inches in Nantahala in 1973
Greatest Snowfall (no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
Record weather events for May in Macon County
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of May Data available from 1873 to 2018 Highest Temperature 92°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-20-1996
Lowest Temperature 23°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-02-1963
Greatest Rainfall 5.97 inches in Highlands on 05-30-2018
Greatest Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands on 05-07-1992
All-time record weather events for Macon County
Highest Temperature 101°F in Franklin on Jul 29, 1952
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Highlands on Jan 21, 1985
Greatest Rainfall 21.15 inches in Highlands on Jul 29, 1879
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Mar 13, 1993
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On This Day
May 28 is the 148th day of the year (149th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 217 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
621 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gaozu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty.
1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)
1644 – English Civil War: Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1802 – In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops.
1830 – US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
1871 – The Paris Commune falls after two months.
1892 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race is held.
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
1926 – The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1937 – Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer, is founded.
1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first Allied infantry victory of the War.
1948 – Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded, with Yasser Arafat elected as its first leader.
1968 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 892 crashes near Nala Sopara in India, killing 30.
1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1987 – An 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
1995 – The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
2003 – Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2010 – In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.
2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.
2016 – Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes.
2017 – Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first entry of the event.
2020 - Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declares State of Emergency in Minneapolis and activates the Minnesota National Guard after protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody
2021 - Discovery of a mass grave with the remains of 215 children from Kamloops Indian Residential School announced by First Nation in British Columbia, Canada
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