OUTLOOK
The ridge of high pressure near the the northeastern CONUS will gradually retreat tracking northeastward into Thursday while a strong cold front approaches from the west. This cold front is forecast to track through the region late Thursday into early Friday and could lead to isolated strong to severe thunderstorm development. A second cold front is expected to track into the area this weekend keeping shower and thunderstorm chances around. Early next week high pressure moves in leading to drier conditions.
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National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Friday Night
Franklin area
Today
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Scattered showers, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog between 8am and 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers likely, mainly after 8am. Patchy fog in the morning. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after midnight. Lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Friday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10am, then a slight chance of showers between 10am and 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Friday Night Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-40s.
Highlands area
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Today
Occasional showers, mainly before noon. Patchy fog before noon. Highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 2am. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the south 3 to 5 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers likely, mainly after 8am. Patchy fog in the morning. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs near 60. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2am. Lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Friday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11am, then a slight chance of showers between 11am and 1pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-40s.
Otto area
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Today
Showers likely, mainly before 9am. Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the south 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers likely, mainly after 8am. Patchy fog in the morning. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Friday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10am, then a slight chance of showers between 10am and 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Nantahala area
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Today
Scattered showers, mainly before 9am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Light and variable winds. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday
Showers, mainly after 8am. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 5am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5am. Low in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 9am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
An area of showers and scattered thunderstorms will move into the area early Friday in advance of a cold front. While the greatest threat for severe weather is expected to remain southwest of our area, a few of these storms could still produce severe weather in the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia, mainly west of U.S. Highway 25. Damaging winds would be the primary severe weather threat.
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 (9.8 out of 12) today with Maple, Juniper, and Oak being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be lower, in the medium-high range (7.7 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on March 24th
Highest Temperature 84°F in Highlands in 1929
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Highlands in 1915
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.35 inches in Highlands in 1917
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.0 inches in Highlands in 1983
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
1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6. 1387 – English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate. 1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1545 – German Parliament open in Worms. 1550 – France and England sign Peace of Bolgne. 1603 – James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I. 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan. 1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne. 1664 – Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island. 1720 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051. 1765 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops. 1794 – In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces. 1829 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament. 1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. 1853 – Anti-slavery newspaper "The Provincial Freeman" first published in Windsor, Ontario, edited by Samuel Ringgold Ward and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, first black woman publisher in North America. 1854 – President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela. 1860 – Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke. 1860 – Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Fransisco, 89 days out of the New York. 1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising. 1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300. 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. 1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event. 1924 – Greece becomes a republic. 1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city. 1934 – United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth. 1944 – Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome. 1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. 1944 – RAF rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall broken by pine trees and soft snow, suffers only a sprained leg. 1945 – Operation Varsity: In the largest one-day airborne operation of all time, British, US & Canadian paratroopers land east of the Rhine in Northern Germany 1946 – A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership. 1947 – Congress proposes two-term limit on the presidency. 1953 – Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs is rescued by Barbados police following his kidnapping. 1961 – Quebec Board of the French Language is established. 1965 – US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus 1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. 1977 – Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress. 1980 – ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline" 1980 – El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. 1989 – In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels of crude oil after running aground. 1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. 1998 – Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded. 1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others. 1998 – First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany 1999 – Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. 1999 – A truck carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people. 2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. 2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. 2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board. 2019 – Jakarta MRT began operation. 2020 – Indian PM Narendra Modi orders a 21 day lockdown for world's second most populous country of 1.3 billion people to deal with COVID-19 2020 – Japan's Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announces postponement of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games until summer of 2021 because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic 2020 – China's Hubei province, the original center of the COVID-19 outbreak eases restrictions on travel after a nearly two-month lockdown.
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Published at 4:00am on Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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