OUTLOOK
An upper ridge will breakdown through Friday allowing afternoon to evening isolated convection focused across the mountains. A cold front passage late Friday into early Saturday will support more widespread activity. Surface high pressure to our northeast will support a cool and mainly dry conditions Sunday into early next week.
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Local News Update
(National News is published after the Macon Calendar section)
Flags Lowered Until Sunset on May 30th to Honor Victims of Shooting in San Jose, California by Order of the President and the Governor [LINK]
The Macon County Art Association in Franklin is pleased to announce that the Vet’s Portrait Project will be held this year. This will be our ninth year for this event. Unfortunately the pandemic precluded the project last year but the artists are ready to go for 2021. This year there are spots for 4-7 veterans as we had applications remaining from 2019. Please announce the call for Macon County Veterans or their family members to apply to have the Veteran’s portrait painted by one of our local artists. Vets or their families may apply at the gallery between Memorial Day and July 4th of this year. There is no cost to apply or for the portraits. The only requirement is that the Veteran or their family member be present to receive the portrait on Veterans Day November 11, 2021. Community members who wish to help support the costs for this program are also welcome. Contact the project chair by email at karen@programservices.org.
The Macon County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday night and the county manager presented his proposed budget. The next budget meeting will take place at 4pm on June 3rd, where Burningtown and Otto VFDs and the school system will present their budget requests to the board.
Download a PDF of the budget message [PDF]
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Sunday Night
Franklin area
Scattered showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 1pm. Patchy fog in the morning. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Occasional showers and thunderstorms before 4am, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after 11pm. Lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of rain before 10am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Light winds out of the northwest early incrfeasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Highlands area
Today
Scattered showers before noon, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between noon and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Patchy fog in the morning. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Occasional showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 2am, then a slight chance of showers between 2am and 5am. Patchy fog after 11pm. Lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of rain before 10am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-40s. Winds out of the north 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Otto area
Today
Scattered showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 1pm. Patchy fog in the morning. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds early increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Occasional showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers between 2am and 5am. Patchy fog after 11pm. Lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable by midnight. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of rain before 10am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. WInds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Nantahala area
Today
Scattered showers before 11am, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 4pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Light winds out of the southwest early increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Occasional showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 11pm, then scattered showers. Patchy fog after 11pm. Lows in ther low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-60s. Light winds out of the northwest early increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Wed May 28 2020
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the extreme upper range of green 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 range (6.3 out of 12) today with Grasses, Mulberry, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium- ange range (6.7 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on May 26th
Highest Temperature 90°F in Franklin in 1967
Lowest Temperature 30°F in at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1961
Greatest Rainfall 3.60 inches in Nantahala in 1973
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
Macon Calendar
The Macon County Art Association (a not for profit member organization) is offering classes in encaustic painting on Specified Fridays from 10AM-12PM at the Uptown Gallery 30 E Main St Franklin NC. Specific class dates are Friday July 9 and 23, August 3 and 27, September 3 and 17, October 29.
For more information contact the instructor, Karen Smith, at karen@programservices.org
National News Update
Level1 News May 28 2021: Snuggling In The Salmonella Summer
NBC Nightly News Broadcast (Full) - May 27th, 2021
PBS NewsHour full episode, May 27, 2021
On This Day
May 28th is the 148th day of the year (149th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 217 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
621 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gaozu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty. [Wikipedia article] [Weapons and Warfare]
1037 - Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis" [Wikipedia article]
1431 - Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution [VIDEO: Joan Of Arc - Dressed As A Man]
1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.) [An Overview] [Oxford Reference]
1644 – English Civil War: Bolton Massacre (aka Storming of Bolton) by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. [Wikipedia]
1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania. [VIDEO: The French and Indian War Explained] [George Washington in the French & Indian War] [Washington and the French & Indian War]
1802 – In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops. [History and Headlines]
1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them. [VIDEO: HistoryPod]
1871 – The Paris Commune falls after two months. [VIDEO: France 24] [The Paris Commune — The First Communist Revolution] [The Paris Commune — The First Communist Revolution] [VIDEO LECTURE: The Ruins of Paris, 1871]
1892 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy. [LINK TEXT]
1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
1926 – The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy. [LINK TEXT]
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication. [PDF] [Lecture Portion] [Lecture by Peter Millican] [Full Oxford University 8 Lecture Series (2018)]
1937 – Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded. [LINK WSJ VIDEO: The History of Volkswagen, 'The People's Car'] [VIDEO: The SECRET Volkswagen Doesn’t Want You To Know]
1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium. [The Battle of Belgium]
1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War. [Norway 1940: The Siege of Narvik] [The Battles of Narvik - 3 battles, 3 sides, 1 week] [British Newsreels]
1948 – Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero. [Wikipedia]
1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1972 - White House "plumbers" first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. [VIDEO: G Gordon Liddy on motives for break-in]
1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside. [Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire: Broadcast video with Howard Ain]
1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1987 – A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. [Kremlin Caper: Mathias Rust's Landing on Red Square] [When The Eagle Has Landed In Moscow. Mathias Rust Story #USSR] [Mathias Rust (DR documentary)]
1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War. [The Ethiopian Civil War | Animated History]
1995 – The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shook the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt. [The Neftegorsk (Sakhalin Island) 1995 earthquake: a rare interplate event] [Wikipedia]
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud. [Wikipedia] [Investopedia] [Encyclopedia of Arkansas]
1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually. [Video of Test] [President Clinton Condemns Test] [How Saudi Arabia reacted to Pakistan's nuclear tests]
1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City. [Final steel beam removed from Ground Zero]
2003 – Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2010 – In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.
2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.
2020 - Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declares State of Emergency in Minneapolis and activates the Minnesota National Guard after protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody [KARE-TV Morning news headlines | May 28, 2020] [May 28, 2020 City of Minneapolis provides update following protests.] [National Guard activated in Minneapolis after unrest]
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