OUTLOOK
A strong cold front will cross the area from the northwest later today, bringing a round of showers and thunderstorms. Unseasonably cold high pressure will build in behind the front tonight and settle over the region for the rest of the week. Expect an upper level ridge to build over the region from Sunday into next week, continuing dry, but warmer weather.
Weather Alert We are under a Flash Food Watch today. The National Weather Service has forecast heavy rain for today that could lead to minor flooding.
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National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Friday Night
Franklin area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 3pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 1pm. Highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between three-quarters and one inch possible. Tonight Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before midnight, then a slight chance of showers. Lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Thursday Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-40s. WInds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Thursday Night Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Friday Sunny, with highs near 50. Friday Night Clear, with lows in the mid-20s.
Highlands area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 5pm. Patchy fog before 2pm. Highs near 60. WInds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. Tonight Showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog before midnight. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Thursday Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 30s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Thursday Night Mostly clear, with lows around 20. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Friday Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 40s. Friday Night Clear, with lows in the mid-20s.
Otto area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 3pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 1pm. Highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between three-quarters and one inch possible. Tonight Showers, mainly before midnight. Lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Thursday Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Thursday Night Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Friday Sunny, with highs near 50. Friday Night Clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 3pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 1pm. Highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. Tonight Rain showers, possibly mixing with snow after 1am, then gradually ending. Lows around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. Thursday Mostly sunny, with highs near 40. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Thursday Night Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Friday Sunny, with highs in the mid-40s. Friday Night Clear, with lows in the upper 20s.
HAZARDS
A late season strong cold front is forecast to push through the area Wednesday and may support strong to severe thunderstorms, with damaging wind gusts being the main threat. Heavy rain may cause localized flooding.
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
1030 PM EDT Tue Mar 30 2021
...HEAVY RAINFALL RETURNING TO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS WEDNESDAY MORNING...
.Strong lift and deep moisture preceding a cold front likely will combine to produce periods of heavy rainfall over the southern Appalachians. Particularly in areas below southwest-facing ridges, an elevated risk of flash flooding will exist. The threat is greatest during the morning and early afternoon, but will not diminish until the cold front passes Wednesday evening.
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING...
The Flash Flood Watch continues for
* portions of northeast Georgia, western North Carolina, and upstate South Carolina, including the following counties,
in northeast Georgia, Habersham and Rabun.
In western North Carolina, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Macon, Northern Jackson, Southern Jackson, Swain, and Transylvania.
In upstate South Carolina, Greenville Mountains, Oconee Mountains, and Pickens Mountains.
* from 8 AM EDT Wednesday through Wednesday evening
* Strong lift and deep moisture preceding a cold front likely will combine to produce periods of heavy rainfall over the southern Appalachians and adjacent foothills near the southern Blue Ridge Escarpment. A total of 2 to 3 inches of rain can be expected in the most favored areas, south and southwest facing ridges.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Flash Flood Watch means that conditions may develop that lead to flash flooding. Flash flooding is a very dangerous situation.
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
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 low-medium range (3.2 out of 12) today with Juniper, Oak, and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be higher, in the medium-high range (8.8 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on March 31st
Highest Temperature 82°F Franklin in 1963
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands in 1964
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.37 inches in Highlands in 1976
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 0.2 inches in Highlands in 1966
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
307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian. 1084 - Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade. 1492 – Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan and fifty of his men came ashore to present-day Limasawa to participate in the first Catholic mass in the Philippines. 1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy. 1761 – The 1761 Lisbon earthquake strikes off the Iberian Peninsula with an estimated magnitude of 8.5, six years after another quake destroyed the city. 1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act. 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade. 1885 – The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate. 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened. 1899 – Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces. 1901 – Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák premiéres at the National Opera House in Praque. 1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States. 1909 – Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis. 1913 – The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert. 1917 – According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions. 1918 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed. 1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. 1920 - British parliament accepts Irish Home Rule law 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed. 1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years. 1931 – An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000. 1931 – A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne. 1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States. 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession. 1945 – World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. 1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada. 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. 1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government. 1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265. 1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum. 1964 – Brazilian General Olímpio Mourão Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d'état. 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. 1968 – American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President." 1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors. 1990 – Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax. 1991 – Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union. 1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California. 1992 – The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow. 1995 – Selena is murdered by her fan club's president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas after accusations emerged of Saldívar embezzling money from Selena's fan club. 1995 – TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board. 1998 – Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license. 2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed. 2018 – Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution. 2020 - British pensioner Robert Weighton becomes the world's oldest man at 112 years
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Published at 4:40am on Wednesday, March 31, 2021
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