OUTLOOK
A cold front will cross the region from the west today, with a few showers and thunderstorms possible this afternoon. After the front passes, high pressure will bring cooler temperatures Thursday through Saturday. A cold front will sag south into the area late in the weekend and bring a return of rain chances into early next week.
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Local News Update
(National News is published after the Macon Calendar section)
Weather-related Video
Iotla Creek near the Iotla Church Road and Bennett Road intersection
• The Franklin Town Council Regular Meeting for May 2021 [LINK]
Proponents of Public Skatepark Adress the Town Council During Public Comment
Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Angel Medical Center Facility [LINK]
Governor Orders Flags Lowered Until Sunset on May 4th [LINK]
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Friday Night
Franklin area
Today
A chance of showers before 11am, then a slight chance of showers after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
Highlands area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers in the midafternoon. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-40s. WInds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 60. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s.
Friday Night
Clear, with lows in the upper 30s.
Otto area
Today
A slight chance of showers before 10am, then a slight chance of showers after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s.
Nantahala area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly between 1pm and 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in thge mid-60s. Calm winds in the mornng increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the extereme upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the upper range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There are no significant sources of smoke in the region as of 3am on 04-22-2021.)
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (6.6 out of 12) today with Maple, Birch, and Oak 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 May 5th
Highest Temperature 90°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1950
Lowest Temperature 26°F in Highlands in 2011
Greatest Rainfall 3.96 inches in Highlands in 1933
Greatest Snowfall No measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872
May Weather Extremes for Macon County
Highest Temperature 92°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-20-1966
Lowest Temperature 23°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-02-1963
Greatest Rainfall 5.97 inches in Highlands on 05-30-2018
Greatest Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands on 05-07-1992
Macon Calendar
Macon County Public Library
Exploring North Carolina's Lookout Towers: A Guide to Hikes and Vistas with Author Peter Barr Thursday, May 6th, 6:30 p.m. outside the Macon County Public Library in the picnic pavilion next to Macon Early College- Exploring North Carolina's Lookout Towers: A Guide to Hikes and Vistas with Author Peter Barr Join us for a presentation by the author and a chance to purchase your own copy of his updated book on NC's lookout towers. Please call, email or visit Kristina Moe at the library to register- 828-524-3600, kmoe@fontanalib.org Friends of the Greenway
Friends of the Greenway would like to invite you to FROG FAIR, our spring arts & crafts fair on May 8, 2021 from 9-3 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main St, Franklin (at the Town bridge). We are excited to report that so far, 26 vendors have chosen to participate at the FAIR. As a fund raiser event for FROG, we collect a vendor registration fee, will offer a continental breakfast, lunch specials, homemade desserts and hold a 50/50 drawing with a $50 guarantee. Area musicians will perform throughout the day, with a sitting area for extra enjoyment. Mark your calendar and come enjoy the day. Stop by FROG Quarters Wednesday-Saturday between 9-2 to become a registered vendor or to purchase 50/50 drawing tickets. Hope to see you on May 8. For vendor information, email us at frog28734@gmail.com.
On This Day
May 5th is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 240 days remain until the end of the year.
This day marks the approximate midpoint of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the March equinox).
Historical Events
553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.[1]
1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.[2]
1494 - On 2nd voyage to New World Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay
1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.[3]
1646 - King Charles I surrenders in Scotland
1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
1665 - Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg, ending the Seven Years' War
1778 - George Washington appoints Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Inspector General of the Continental Army
1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
1792 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre commissioned to measure the meridian between Dunkerque to Rodez to calculate accurate length of the metre
1809 - Citizenship is denied to Jews of Aargau Canton, Switzerland
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1814 - British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York
1816 - American Bible Society organized in New York
1821 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1835 – The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1840 - Thomas Carlyle begins his famous lecture series "The Hero as Divinity", later collected in his book "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History"
1842 - City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours in Hamburg, Germany
1854 - British Commodore James Plumridge attacks Finnish settlements in Gulf of Bothnia, killing civilans and destroying British-owned goods.
1862 – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1862 - American Civil War: Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
1864 - American Civil War: 5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge in the Atlanta Campaign
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Albemarle Sound fought along the coast of North Carolina. Three Confederate warships, including an ironclad, engaged eight Union gunboats. The action ended indecisively due to the sunset.
1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1881 - Anti-Jewish rioting in Kiev, Ukraine
1886 - The Bay View Tragedy occurs, as militia fires upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.
1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1893 - Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange
1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
1920 – Italian migrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti charged with murder of a paymaster at a US shoe factory in Massachusetts, both are later executed
1920 - US President Woodrow Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1921 - Perfume Chanel No. 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel
1925 - Dayton teacher John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
1945 – World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
1945 – World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, the only battle in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1955 – The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
1961 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
1973 – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:592⁄5, an as-yet unbeaten record.
1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1985 – Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
2007 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.[4]
2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
2013 - 10 people are killed by Islamist terrorists in a church attack in Njilan, Nigeria
2016 - Fort McMurray wildfires: Canadian province of Alberta declares a state of emergency as evacuation of 80,000 people continues
2019 - King Vajiralongkorn is crowned King of Thailand, first monarch to be crowned in nearly seven decades during a three-day celebration in Bangkok
2019 - At least 41 people die when a Russian Aeroflot plane catches fire after an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow
2019 - Oil tanker explosion kills 55 in Niamey, Niger
2020 - Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 reach 3.65 million, US cases pass 70,000 while the UK becomes the most affected in Europe with 29,427 known deaths
2020 - São Luis, in Maranhão state becomes the first Brazilian city to enter lockdown because of COVID-19 as its health services struggle to cope
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Published at 4:00am on Wednesday, May 05, 2021
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