OUTLOOK
A warming trend will continue through the start of the new week with a gradual increase in daily shower chances through Wednesday. Sprawling Bermuda high pressure will aid in the onset of summerlike conditions by the end of the week.
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National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Tuesday Night
Franklin area
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Calm winds. TonightPatchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds.
Monday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Highlands area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50. Light winds out of the southwest.
Monday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph.
Monday Night
A slight chance of showers before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Otto area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Light winds out of the west. TonightPartly cloudy, with lows around 50. Calm winds.
Monday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Light and variable winds.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a slight chance of showers between 8pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Nantahala area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds. TonightPartly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Calm winds.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Increasing clouds, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 30%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Chance of rain is 30%.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the lower range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the lower range of yellow.
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-high range (7.2 out of 12) today with Birch, Hickory, and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-range range (7.7 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on May 16th
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin in 1962
Lowest Temperature 29°F in Highlands in 1904
Greatest Rainfall 3.11 inches in Highlands in 1955
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 13th is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 232 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. 955 - Octavian, son of Duke Alberic II of Spoleto, elected Pope John XII 1165 - Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine 1204 – Having been elected on May 9, Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. 1426 – Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes king of Ava. 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic. 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England. 1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines. 1739 – The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army. 1770 – The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, who later becomes king of France. 1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina. 1811 – Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera. 1812 – Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia to Russia. 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli. 1832 – Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush. 1834 – The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal. 1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers. 1860 - Republican convention in Chicago selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate 1861 - American Civil War: Major General Twiggs surrenders to Confederate Army in San Antonio, Texas 1866 – The United States Congress establishes the nickel. 1868 – The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote. 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people. 1877 – The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France. 1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances. 1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today). 1916 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria. 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later. 1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight. 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc. 1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place. 1943 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines. 1959 – The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time. 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. 1961 – Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea. 1966 – The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. 1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus. 1974 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia. 1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. 1995 - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier 1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country. 2003 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks. 2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote. 2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. 2014 – Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya. 2019 - US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency over IT threats, banning US companies from using foreign technology without a license 2020 - 118-year old American department store JC Penney files for bankruptcy
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Published at 5:3am on Sunday, May 16, 2021
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