OUTLOOK
Drier high pressure will persist through Friday behind a departing cold front. A weak low pressure system will cross the southeast coastline on Saturday, as an upper disturbance passes overhead, to briefly increase moisture and rain chances in our area. High pressure and mainly dry conditions will then return later in the weekend through next week, with near to below normal temperatures across the region.
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PRESS RELEASE (04-15-2021)
MACON PUBLIC HEALTH
Macon County Public Health Hosts Special Vaccine Event for 16 and 17 Year Olds in Macon County
With the help of regional partners, Macon County Public Health will be hosting a special vaccine event April 23rd to provide Pfizer vaccine to those who are sixteen (16) and seventeen (17) years old.
Currently, Pfizer is the only vaccine approved for use for individuals as young as 16 years of age. In addition to the benefits of vaccination, the ability to vaccinate school-age children will help to reduce the number of quarantines and allow students, once fully vaccinated, to remain face-to-face for instruction regardless of exposure.
A legal guardian of the student must be present for those under the age of eighteen (18) to receive the vaccination. Those who wish to schedule an appointment for April 23rd must call Macon County’s Call Center at 828-524-1500 no later than 5pm on April 21st to ensure enough vaccine is on hand.
All other individuals 18 years old and older who wish to receive a COVID-19 vaccine can call Macon County’s Vaccine Call Center at 828-524-1500 to register and schedule an appointment at another time. Appointments are readily available with no waitlist. The Macon County Vaccine Call Center is open Monday thru Friday, from 8:00am to 5:00pm.
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Sunday Night
Franklin area
Today
Areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Saturday
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Light and variable winds. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the northwest.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 30s.
Highlands area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Light and variable winds.
Saturday
Showers likely, mainly before 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 50. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph in the morning increasing to come out of the south in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.
Otto area
Today
Areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Calm wins in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Light winds out of the west.
Saturday
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Light and variable winds ion the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph before noon. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
Nantahala area
Today
Areas of frost, mainly before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning increasding to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday
Showers likely, mainly between 9am and 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
HAZARDS
Other than a Frost Advisory until 9am, hazardous weather is not expected today.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the middle range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today also being in the middle range of green.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (11.0 out of 12) today with Oak, SweetGum, Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.4 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on April 16th
Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2006
Lowest Temperature 19°F in Highlands in 2014
Greatest Rainfall 4.31 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1956
Greatest Snowfall no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872
April Weather Extremes for Macon County
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on April 26, 1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands on April 1, 1987
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.00 inches in Highlands on April 7, 1895
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 9.5 inches in Franklin on April 4, 1987
On This Day
April 16th is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 259 days remain until the end of the year. Historical Events
1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account.
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War
AD 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
556 - Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy
1346 – Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.
1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
1780 – Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1847 – Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
1853 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1863 – American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1917 – Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
1919 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1941 – World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941 – World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
1947 – An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1947 – Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1990 – "Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
2007 – Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
2012 – The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2013 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
2013 – The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
2014 – The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.
2020 New study claims a multi-decade megadrought is already under way in the western US, published in journal "Science"
2020 Nationwide State of Emergency declared in Japan till 6 May due to the worsening COVID-19 outbreak
2020 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment in 4 weeks (5.2 million in the last week), wiping out 9 1/2 years of job gains
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Published at 4:00am on Friday, April 16, 2021
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