Weather Briefing for Tuesday, March 30, 2021

OUTLOOK

A strong cold front pushes across our region from the northwest Wednesday, bringing a round of showers and thunderstorms. After that cold front moves through Wednesday night, expect some unseasonably cool weather for the end of the week.


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National Weather Map for Today

General forecast through Thursday Night


Franklin area

Today

Sunny in the morning with increasing clouds. Highs near 70. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight

Partly cloudy becoming mostly cloudy before midnight. Lows in the mid-50s. Light and variable winds. 80% chance of rain.

Wednesday

Rain with thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light and variable winds, except in thunderstorms. 100% chance of rain.

Wednesday Night

Showers, mainly after 2am. Lows near 50. calm winds. Chance of rain is 80%.

Highlands area

Today

Sunny with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph.

Tonight

Showers, mainly 2am. Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 80%.

Wednesday

Showers. Highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Chance of rain is 100%.

Wednesday Night

A 30% chance of showers before 2am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s.

Otto area

Today

Sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight

Showers, mainly after 2am. Lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 60%.

Wednesday

Showers. Highs in the mid-60s. Chance of rain is 100%.

Wednesday Night

Showers likely, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows near freezing. Chance of precipitation (could be mixed wintry) is 60%.

Nantahala area

Today

Sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. WInds out of the south 3 to 5 mph.

Tonight

Showers, mainly after 2am. Lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 80%.

Wednesday

Showers. Highs near 60. Chance of rain is 100%.

Wednesday Night

Showers likely, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 30. Chance of precipitation is 60%.



HAZARDS

Hazardous weather is not expected today.

Heavy rain is expected Wednesday, which may lead to minor flooding in locations with poor drainage.

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 (10.6 out of 12) today with Juniper, Oak, and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be much lower, in the low-medium range (2.9 out of 12).


Weather Extremes for Macon County on March 30th


Highest Temperature 83°F Franklin in 1985
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Highlands in 1894
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.41 inches in Nantahala in 1975
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands in 1915

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

240 BC – 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague. 804 - Ludger becomes 1st Bishop of Münster in the Holy Roman Empire 988 - Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders 1282 – The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers. 1296 – Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England. 0603 - Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish 1699 – Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab. 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris after defeating Napoleon 1815 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification. 1818 – Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid. 1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States. 1841 – The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens. 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long. 1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros. 1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature. 1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War. 1861 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium. 1863 – Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece. 1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction. 1885 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires. 1899 – German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights. 1912 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate. 1918 – Outburst of bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate. 1939 – The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h). 1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei. 1944 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria. 1944 – Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war. 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig. 1949 – Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO. 1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India. 1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City. 1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. 1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam. 1976 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day. 1979 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident. 1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. 2002 – The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place. 2009 – Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan. 2017 – SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket. 2020 - International Olympic Committee announces postponed 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be held July 23-August 8 in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 - Three out of four Americans now ordered to stay home due to COVID-19 as states of Virginia, Maryland, Arizona and Florida issue lockdowns


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Published at 4:20am on Tuesday, March 302021