OUTLOOK
A cold front will bring showers and thunderstorms to the region today. This front will become stationary and remain near the area through Wednesday, before relatively dry high pressure builds in Thursday and lingers into the weekend.
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Local News Update
(National News is published after the Macon Calendar section)
PRESS RELEASE (05-05-2021)
MACON COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
Macon County Public Health Will Being Pre-Registering Children Age 12 to 15 for the COVID-19 Vaccination
With the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory panel set to authorize the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in those aged 12 to 15, Macon County’s Vaccine Call Center will begin to pre-register children, should their parents wish for them to be vaccinated once the vaccine has been approved. No Pfizer clinics are currently planned, though the public and those who pre-register will be notified once appointments become available for the Pfizer vaccine with Macon County Public Health.
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is approved under a FDA Emergency Use Authorization, and has been shown to be safe and effective at preventing severe illness from COVID-19, and vaccine clinical trials for the age 12 to 15 group had no symptomatic infections after being fully vaccinated.
Side effects in this age group were similar to that of the age 16 to 25 group which included fever, pain at the injection site, and cold like symptoms lasting no longer than 72 hours after the injection.
Vaccinating children is key to increasing immunity within our community, and allowing students to return to a normal school life. Once fully-vaccinated, students will be able to stay in in-person classroom settings regardless of exposure, and those with no symptoms will be allowed to attend classes.
Parents that want their child to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, must call Macon County’s Vaccine Call Center at 828-524-1500 to pre-register. Any adult who wishes to receive the vaccine, may also call the Vaccine Call Center to register and schedule an appointment. The Macon County Vaccine Call Center is open Monday – Friday, from 8:00am to 5:00pm.
• The Franklin Town Council Regular Meeting for May 2021 [LINK]
Proponents of Public Skatepark Adress the Town Council During Public Comment
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Wednesday Night
Franklin area
Today
Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Patchy fog between 7am and 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Light north wind. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Light winds out of the northeast.
Wednesday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before noon. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 40s.
Highlands area
Today
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 10am. Patchy fog between 7am and 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before midnight. Patchy fog in the early morning hours. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after noon. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the southwest. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely, mainly in the early morning hours. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Light winds out of the northeast. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 50s.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40.
Otto area
Today
INCREASED FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON
Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Patchy fog in the morning. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Light winds out of the north. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. Light and variable wind. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds.
Wednesday
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers before 2am, then a chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers likely before 8am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 8am and 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Light winds out of the northeast.
Wednesday
A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s.
Wednesday Night
A chance of showers before 2am, then a chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Chance of rain is 30%.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today. The relative humidity is expected to be near 30% this afternoon and the wind will be gusting above 20 mph, so outdoor burning is not recommended.
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 (6.8 out of 12) today with Birch, Maple, and Hickory being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (8.3 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on May 10th
Highest Temperature 88°F in Highlands in 1940 Lowest Temperature 29°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1977 Greatest Rainfall 2.34 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1990
Greatest Snowfall (No snowfall 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
On This Day
May 9th is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 236 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
1267 - Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
1278 - Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining
1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king.
1294 - Temür Khan declared Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
1688 – King Narai nominates Phetracha as regent, leading to the revolution of 1688 in which Phetracha becomes king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.
1768 – Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
1796 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon wins a victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
1833 – A revolt broke out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who had desecrated the deceased mandarin Le Van Duyet.
1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.
1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
1876 – The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
1881 – Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
1904 – The Horch and Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
1916 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
1922 – The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1940 – World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. On the same day, Germany invades France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom occupies Iceland.
1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1967 – The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.
1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.
1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
1996 – A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
1997 – The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.
2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 20 m from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
2012 – The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.
2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
2017 - US President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office
2018 - Mahathir Mohamad is sworn in as the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, the world's oldest leader at 92
2019 - Taxi service Uber becomes a public company opening on the New York Stock Exchange
2019 - US begins raising tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports to 25% after trade talks fail
2020 - Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 rise above 4 million with death toll above 270,000, according to Johns Hopkins
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Published at 3:33am on Monday, May 10, 2021
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