OUTLOOK
An active weather pattern will continue this weekend as a stationary front just south of our area lifts north as a warm front on Saturday. Another cold front arrives from the west on Sunday with another round of thunderstorms. This cold front crosses our region late Sunday and Sunday night. Expect cool and dry high pressure to return early next week.
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National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Monday Night
Franklin area
Today
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A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 7am and increasing as the day progresses. Increasing clouds, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 9pm. Cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday (chance of severe thunderstorms)
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Highs near 70. Winds out of the south 10 to 15 mph shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Wind speeds will peak between 11am and 5pm, from west to east as the wind field (and thunderstorms) crosses the county. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Highlands area
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Today
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 7am. Increasing clouds, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of showers before 9pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 10pm. Cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Sunday (chance of severe thunderstorms)
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the southwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Wind speeds will peak between noon and 5pm. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between three-quarters and one inch possible.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Otto area
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Today
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Increasing clouds, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 9pm. Cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday (chance of severe thunderstorms)
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Highs near 70. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Wind speeds will peak between noon and 3pm. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Nantahala area
( )
Today
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 7am. Increasing clouds, with highs in he upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Sunday (chance of severe thunderstorms)
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Wind speeds will peak between 11am and 2pm. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three-quarters and one inch possible.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Wind speeds will peak between 8pm and midnight.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 60.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Another round of thunderstorms is expected on Sunday. Some of these storms may become severe, producing damaging wind and large hail.
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 medium-high range (8.1 out of 12) today with Juniper, Oak, and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to lower, in the medium range (4.9 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on March 27th
Highest Temperature 79°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2007
Lowest Temperature 4°F in Highlands in 1894
Greatest One-Day Rain 3.34 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1965
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 4.8 inches in Highlands in 1971
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
196BC Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida. 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. 1668 – English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company 1708 – Pretender to the English throne James III flees to Dunkirk 1713 – Spain loses Menorca and Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht 1782 – The Second Rockingham ministry assumes office in Britain and begins negotiations to end the American War of Independence. 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real. 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. 1841 - 1st US steam fire engine tested in New York City 1836 – Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas. 1855 - Abraham Gesner patents kerosene 1863 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting and prayer 1865 - Siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama is captured by Federals 1866 – President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9. 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse. 1886 – Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars. 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River. 1899 –Marconi sends radio signals cross the English Channel 1912 –First Japanese Cherry trees planted in Washington, DC 1914 –1st successful non-direct blood transfusion is performed by Dr. Albert Hustin in Brussels 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life. 1918 – The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania. 1920 - Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor 1933 - Japan leaves League of Nations 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan. 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup. 1941 - World War II: Adolf Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia) 1942 - World War II: Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. 1943 - World War II: US begins assault on Fondouk Pass, Tunisia 1944 - World War II: 1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France, for Auschwitz concentration camp 1944 - World War II: 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania 1944 - World War II: 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia, ghetto are shot by the Gestapo 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers. 1945 - World War II: US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden contration camp 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. 1964 – The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history. 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges. 1980 - Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours. 1986 – A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people. 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV MartÃ. 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo. 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States. 1999 – Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others. 2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel. 2002 – Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured. 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe. 2009 – The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people. 2014 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict. 2014 - UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea 2015 - Russia's Soyuz TMA-16M launches to deliver three crew members to the international space station to research the long-term effects of micro gravity 2015 – Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead. 2016 – A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter. 2020 – North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO. 2020 - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces he has contracted COVID-19 2020 - $2.2 trillion stimulus package, largest in US history, signed into law by President Donald Trump
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Published at 3:43am on Saturday, March 27, 2021
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