OUTLOOK
A ridge of high pressure over the New England coast will retreat out into the western Atlantic early this week. However, the ridge is expected to extend southwest and into our area through Wednesday. A vigorous cold front is expected to impact the forecast area on Thursday and Friday.
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From Mark Sudduth of HurricaneTrack.com:
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National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
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Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds by midmorning increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows around 50. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday
A chance of rain, mainly before noon, then a slight chance of showers after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Wednesday Night
A chance of rain, mainly between 2am and 3am, then a chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Light south southeast winds. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Thursday
Showers likely, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Thursday Night
Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Highlands area
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Today
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-50s. WInds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Scattered showers, mainly after 1am. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday
A 40 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers likely. Cloudy, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Thursday Night
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1am. Lows in the mid-50s. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Otto area
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Today
Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds early increasing to come out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 2am. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 6 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday
A 30 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 6 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers likely. Cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 5am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5am. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Nantahala area
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Today
Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday
A 30 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers. High in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Thursday Night
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 10pm. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today also being in the upper range of green.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.4 out of 12) today with Maple, Juniper, and Oak being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be about the same (9.7 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on March 23rd
Highest Temperature 82°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2011
Lowest Temperature 15°F in Highlands in 2004
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.05 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1952
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 0.1 inches in Highlands in 1950
March Weather Extremes for Macon County
Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 15, 1967
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on March 7, 1899
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.43 inches in Highlands on March 29, 1898
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on March 13, 1993
On This Day
Historical Events
1026 Conrad II crowns himself King of Italy
1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1153 Treaty of Konstanz between Frederick I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III
1174 Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow
1400 The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah", a code of Jewish religious law is published
1534 Aragonese legal code formally recognised
1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike
1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht
1593 English Separatist Puritans John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe tried and sentenced to death on the charge of devising and circulating seditious books
1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont
1657 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
1708 Pretender to the English throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
1743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London
1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war
1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
1794 Lt-general Tadeusz Kościuszko returns to Poland
1806 After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
1808 Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
1821 Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence
1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerreotype)
1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1849 Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
1857 Elisha Otis installs his 1st elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City
1858 Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Philadelphia)
1861 London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of NY, begins operating
1862 Battle of Kernstown Virginia, Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1864 Encounter at Camden, Arkansas
1865 General Sherman and Cox' troops reach Goldsboro, North Carolina
1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1879 War of the Pacific fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully takes over Arica and Tarapacá, leaving Bolivia a landlocked country.
1881 Gas lamp sets fire to opera house in Nice, France; 70 die
1882 The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act
1908 American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in hospital two days later
1915 Zion Mule Corp formed by the British Army
1917 Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US
1918 Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed
1918 Lithuania proclaims independence
1919 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy
1919 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky
1921 Germany announces it will be unable to meet its Great War reparation payments
1922 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1929 1st telephone installed at the President’s desk under the Hoover administration at the White House
1931 Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hung after conducting an assassination and a bombing. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
1936 Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome
1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die
1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine into Germany
1945 Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; it would become the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II
1945 Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
1945 Lt. Gen. Miles Dempsey becomes the first British commander to cross the Rhine during the Allied invasion of Germany
1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
1982 Guatemala military coup under General EfraÃn Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees
1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
1987 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
1991 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji
2006 The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply
2020 New York confirmed as new center of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US with 20,875 cases (5,707 in the last day) and 157 deaths
2020 Immediate global ceasefire to fight COVID-19 called for by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
2020 WHO says the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating, 1st 100,000 cases took 67 days, 2nd 100,000 cases 11 days, 3rd 100,000 cases 4 days
2020 COVID-19 lockdowns imposed in South Africa and the United Kingdom while other European nations extend and strengthen their lockdowns
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Published at 4:30am on Tuesday, March 23, 2021
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