OUTLOOK
A ridge of high pressure will continue building across the region into early next week leading to dry conditions and hot temperatures. Near record highs are possible by the middle of the week. On Thursday and Friday, a cold front will sink southward from the Ohio Valley, which could increase shower and thunderstorm chances late in the week.
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National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Tuesday Night
Franklin area
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s. Light winds out of the north.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 90.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s.
Highlands area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the north 3 to 5 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light winds out of the north.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Otto area
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Light winds out of the north.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s.
Nantahala area
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the north around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the northwest.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sun May 23 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Subtropical Storm Ana, located a few hundred miles northeast of Bermuda.
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the middle range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the upper 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 (7.9 out of 12) today with Hickory, Birch, and Oak being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-range range (8.0 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on May 23rd
Highest Temperature 89°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1953
Lowest Temperature 33°F in Highlands in 2002
Greatest Rainfall 4.62 inches in Highlands in 1923
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
National News Update
Brood X cicadas have arrived! Here's everything you need to know
On This Day
May 23 is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 222 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
1040 - Battle of Dandanaqan: Tughril's Seljuk army defeats Ghaznavid force, near Merv (present-day Turkmenistan), brings about the fall of the Ghaznavid Empire
1059 - Henri I crowns his son King Philip I (called the Amorous) of France
1275 - King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 - Jews of Syria and Austria expelled
1421 - Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1430 РJoan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compi̬gne.
1493 - King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria sign Peace of Senlis
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1536 - Pope Paul III installs Portuguese inquisition
1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
1609 – Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.
1618 – The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War. [VIDEO1] [VIDEO2]
1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
1706 РJohn Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Fran̤ois de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.
1780 - Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
1793 – Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1813 - South American independence leader Simón BolÃvar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
1844 – Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Baháʼà Faith; BaháʼÃs celebrate the day as a holy day.
1846 – Mexican–American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1863 – The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
1932 РIn Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Get̼lio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
1934 – Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1934 РThe Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day mel̩e between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
143 - AF is short of fresh water - WW2 - May 23, 1942
1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1945 РWorld War II: Germany's Flensburg Government under Karl D̦nitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British forces.
1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
1949 – Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China.
1958 - Mao Zedong starts the "Great Leap Forward" movement in China, which resulted in between 18 to 55 million deaths by famine.
1960 – A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
1971 – 78 people are killed when Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes on approach to Rijeka Airport in present day Rijeka, Croatia (then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2006 – Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
2008 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
2013 – A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
2014 – Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
2015 – At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.
2016 – Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, killed at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen.
2016 – Eight bombings were carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people were killed and at least 200 people injured.
2017 – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi.
2017 - US President Donald Trump meets Pope Francis at the Vatican
2019 - More than 170 tornadoes reported in a week in US states of Missouri, Oklahoma and Iowa, killing seven and causing widespread damage
2019 - Fifty children rescued from an international paedophile ring on the dark web in Thailand, Australia and the US by Interpol under Operation Blackwrist, main organizer sentenced to 146 years
2019 - The last slave ship to smuggle slaves to America from Africa, the Clotilda (sunk 1860), is found in Mobile river, Alabama
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Published at 4:00am on Sunday, May 23 2021
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