OUTLOOK
High pressure will build into the area today into tomorrow leading to drier conditions, although a few isolated showers or thunderstorms are possible. Sunday into early next week a cutoff low in Texas combined with a Bermuda high in the Atlantic will lead an influx of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, a warmer and more humid airmass will be in place across the southeastern CONUS leading to an increase in shower and thunderstorm chances late this weekend into next week.
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Vet's Portrait Project for 2021 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.
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Sunday Night
Franklin area
Today
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Calm winds.
SaturdayA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight, then a slight chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winsd. Chance of rain is 20%.
Sunday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Chance of rain is 50%.
Highlands area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between midnight and 2am, then a slight chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Sunday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 8am. Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain is 50%.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Chance of rain is 50%.
Monday
Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Monday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Chance of rain is 50%.
Otto area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight, then a slight chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Sunday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with highs near 80.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Chance of rain is 50%.
Nantahala area
Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Chance of rain is 50%.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Fri Jun 4 2021
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 middle range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle 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 (5.6 out of 12) today with Grasses, Mulberry, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range range (5.0 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on June 4th
Highest Temperature 92°F in Franklin in 1985
Lowest Temperature 36°F in Franklin in 1969
Greatest Rainfall 6.03 inches in Highlands in 1967
Greatest Snowfall (No snowfall recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
June Weather Extremes for Macon County
Highest Temperature 99°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-30-2012
Lowest Temperature 32°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-02-1966
Greatest Rainfall 7.63 inches in Highlands on 06-16-1949
Greatest Snowfall no measurable snowfall has been recorded since records started being kept in 1872
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
Level1News June 4 2021: You Have Been Unsubscribed From Your Epidermis
On This Day
June 4 is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 210 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)
781 BC – Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse
1039 – Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor
1070 – Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France [VIDEO: Roquefort - The king of Cheeses]
1133 – Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor [Wikipedia article]
1357 – The "Peace of Ath", signed by Count Louis II of Flanders and Duke Wenceslaus of Luxembourg ends the attempt of the succession of Brabant
1391 – Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surrounds and sets fire to the Jewish quarter of Seville in Spain, the surviving Jews are sold into slavery
1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt.
1615 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan. [Wikipedia article]
1745 – Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession. [VIDEO: Battle of Hohenfriedberg 1745 - First and Second Silesian War] [Wikipedia article]
1760 – Great Upheaval/Expulsion of the Acadians: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians. [Wikipedia article] [Video Overview]
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon). [The Montgolfier Brothers and the Hot Air Balloon] [Wikipedia article on the brothers]
1784 – Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated). [Wikipedia article]
1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1802 – King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel. [The Abdication of Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia]
1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1825 – General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps. [Ellis County Museum: U.S. Army Camel Corps] [Wikipedia article]
1859 – Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army. [Wikipedia article]
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run. [History of Henry Ford's Quadricycle | The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation] [Wikipedia article]
1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage. [HistoryNet article https://www.historynet.com/the-first-minimum-wage.htm]
1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later. [Wikipedia article]
1916 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia. [Wikipedia article] [The Brusilov Offensive - The Arab Revolt I THE GREAT WAR Week 98]
1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World. [The Very First Pulitzer Prize]
1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. [History.com article] [Wikipedia article]
1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris. [Wikipedia article]
1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents. [Wikipedia article] [A very detailed history podcast of the time period]
1932 – Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile. [Wikipedia article]
1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps. [LINK] [A Survivor Speaks] [The Voyage of the St. Louis]
1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech. [Newsreel] [Audio of Churchill Speech] [Text of Churchill Speech]
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy. [How did the US Navy win the Battle of Midway?] [Video playlist: The Battle of Midway from both perspectives] [Wikipedia article]
1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. [Wikipedia article]
1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. [Wikipedia] [U-Boat Heist! The American Operation to Capture U-505] [Take a tour-German U-505 Submarine U boat Museum of Science and Industry 2016] [Moving the U-505 Submarine] [US Navy: Now it can be told]
1944 – World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north. [The Liberation of Rome] [Wikipedia Battle of Anzio (the battle that resulted in the liberation of Rome]
1945 - 6th US Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa [USMC Combat Footage] [Wikipedia: Okinawa Campaign]
1945 - US, Soviet Union, Britain and France agree to divide up occupied Germany
1946 - Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
1947 - US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act [Former President Truman Recalls How the Taft-Hartley Act Was Passed Over His Veto] [Wikipedia]
1954 - Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 meters [Bell X-1A Flight Report (1954) - Restored color - Chuck Yeager, Arthur Murray, altitude record] [List of X-1A flights]
1956 - 'Secret speech' by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev criticising Joseph Stalin is made public [Soviet Congress Criticises Stalin Aka Twentieth Congress Of The Communist Party (1956)] [De-Stalinization: The Secret speech (1956)]
1961 – Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin. [Khrushchev and Kennedy Vienna Summit 1961] [Berlin Crisis Newsreel]
1962 - Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
1967 – Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England. [Newsreel] [British Documentary]
1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1974 - Never repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th [The 'Ten Cent Beer Night' Riot] [Wikipedia article] [Box score and play-by-play] [Ten Cent Beer Night Was A Total Disaster]
1975 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. [Wikipedia article] [LINK]
1975 - Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in North Carolina [New York Times] [General Wikipedia article on Paleontology in North Carolina]
1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown. [Wikipedia article]
1983 – Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt. [Wikipedia article] [US Marchalls article]
1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard] [Pollard Arrives in Israel] [Jonathan Pollard English Speech at Jerusalem Day Celebration at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva - May 10 2021]
1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate). [ABC News Video] [The Tank Man (full film) | FRONTLINE] [The Tank Man (full film) | FRONTLINE] [Footage shows what really happened in lead-up to Tiananmen Square massacre | Four Corners] [Wikipedia article] [The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995)]
1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. [30 Years Later]
1990 - Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
1990 - Dr Jack Kevorkian assists an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die [Wikipedia article]
1991 - Pope John Paul II compares abortion with Nazi murders [BBC News] [NIMSHMA Response]
1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. [Ariane 5 Explosion | A Very Costly Coding Error]
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40. [SpaceVidCast Video] [SpaceX Mission Highlights]
2012 - US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi [White House announces the death of al-Qaeda 'number two' Abu Yahya al-Libi] [Al-Libi death's impact on al Qaeda]
2018 - US President Donald Trump tweets "I have the absolute right to PARDON myself" [ABC News]
2018 - Former US President Bill Clinton in interview with NBC says he hasn't and doesn't need to apologize to Monica Lewinsky
2019 - Former US school security guard Scot Peterson arrested and charged with neglect of a child and culpable negligence for not confronting gunman during Parkland school massacre in a landmark case [CBS News]
2019 - Over 100,000 people mark the 30th anniversary of Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong and around the world [Wikipedia]
2020 - Memorial for George Floyd led by Rev. Al Sharpton, killed in police custody, in Minneapolis, as 10th night of protests at his death held around the country [ABC News (Sharpton only)] [NBC News (Full Service)]
2020 - State of Emergency declared after 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil spills near Russian city of Norilsk, Siberia within the Arctic Circle [Russia's 20,000-tonne diesel spill pollutes waterways in Siberia ] [How Russia is cleaning up the Arctic's biggest oil spill ]
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