OUTLOOK
The Bermuda high will hangout in the western Atlantic while a cutoff low tracks across the south-central United States this weekend into early next week leading to diurnally driven showers and thunderstorms. The main concern is locally heavy rainfall leading to isolated runoff issues from these slow moving, heavy rain producing storms. The Bermuda high gradually weakens middle to late next week while gulf moisture interacts with a cold front sinking south out of Canada. This will lead to continued diurnal activity middle to late next week.
Weather Alert
General pulse thunderstorms are expected across the region today, mainly in the afternoon and evening hours. The main impacts with these thunderstorms are cloud-to-ground lightning and locally heavy rainfall.
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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 Wednesday Night
Today
Tonight
Showers likely, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 64. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 3pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Highs near 80. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a chance of showers between 10pm and 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid-60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 40%.
Wednesday
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s.
highslands area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 11am. Highs near 70. Winds out of the south around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers likely, mainly before 2am. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 5pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 5pm. Highs near 70. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a chance of showers between 10pm and 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 40%.
Wednesday
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers between 8pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60,
Otto area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the south 3 to 5 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 50 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Highs in the upper 70s. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a chance of showers between 11pm and 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 40%.
Wednesday
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers between 8pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid-60s.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 7pm, then a chance of showers. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 2pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 2pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid-60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%.
Wednesday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 7am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Wednesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid-60s.
HAZARDS
Scattered showers and thunderstorms can be expected again today. The main impacts are cloud-to-ground lightning and heavy downpours. Isolated flash flooding is possible with any slow moving storm that produces locally heavy rainfall.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Jun 7 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. An area of low pressure is expected to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea by Thursday or Friday. Some gradual development will be possible thereafter as the system moves slowly northwestward toward Central America.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
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 loiw-medium range (3.6 out of 12) today with Oak, Poplar, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range range (3.2 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on June 7th
Highest Temperature 92°F in Franklin in 1947
Lowest Temperature 37°F in Highlands in 2000
Greatest Rainfall 2.75 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2003
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
National News Update
G-7 nations reach historic deal on global tax reform
• Under the agreement, G-7 nations will back a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15%, U.K. Finance Minister Rishi Sunak announced in a series of tweets.
• The reforms will affect the largest companies in the world with profit margins of at least 10%.
• U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who is in London for the face-to-face meeting, hailed the move as significant and unprecedented.
For more, see [CNBC article]
Delta flight diverted after attempted cockpit breach
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Sirius XM satellite
See a space.com[article] on the missionor or for a full video, see [SpaceX on Youtube]
U.S. and U.K. Hail G7 Minimum Corporate Tax Deal
G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals - BBC News
PBS NewsHour Weekend Full Episode June 5, 2021
On This Day
June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 207 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)
421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire). 879 – Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.
1002 – Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany.
1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. [Wikipedia article] [Video by BazBattles] [Al Jazeera Documentary: An Arab Perspective]
1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence. [Resolution Text] [Video of a Henry Lee Reenactor] [Wikipedia article] [An animated Retelling] [Richard Henry Lee | Who's Who in the American Revolution | AF-172]
1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops. [Wikipedia article]
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
1832 – The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. [1826–1837 cholera pandemic]
1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade. [Wikipedia article]
1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign). [Wikipedia article]
1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. [Wikipedia article] [Plessy v. Ferguson | Separate but Equal OK'd by High Court!]
1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. [Why This Woman Destroyed Bars...Using a Hatchet] [Carrie A. Nation, the Woman Who Attacked Alcoholism With a Hatchet]
1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops. [Wikipedia] [Explosion Beneath Hill 60 I THE GREAT WAR Week 150]
1919 – Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed. [A Deliberate Disaster - Chiang Kai Shek Floods the Yellow River] [Simulation] [Newsreel]
1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory. [Victory At Sea - Episode 04 ~ Midway Is East] [Internet Archive: John Ford's The Battle of Midway] [Battlefield: The Battle of Midway] [Battle 360: Battle of Midway Leads to WWII Victory (S1, E2) | Full Episode] [Office of Naval Intelligence: Japanese Story of Midway] [Sunwest Monograms article]
1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. [US ARMY SIGNAL CORPS: Report From the Aleutians]
1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II. [The Canadians against the 12th SS Hitler youth, advancing from Juno beach]
1946 – The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
1948 – Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
1955 – Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. [Playlist of 719 Shows] [List of episodes on Wikipedia]
1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) [a communist terrorist group] sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books. [Wikipedia article on the Algerian War]
1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples. [Wikipedia article] [Oyez article]
1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem. [Jerusalem Post article] [Newsreel Footage]
1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. [OYEZ: Cohen v California] [Paul Robert COHEN, Appellant, v. State of CALIFORNIA.] [First Amendment Encyclopedia: Cohen v. California (1971)] [Wikipedia article]
1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
1977 – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. [Operation Opera - Israel's Raid on the Iraqi Reactor 1981] [Wikipedia article] [Israel’s Wars & Operations: Operation Opera - Raid on Iraqi Nuclear Reactor]
1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high. [Wikipedia article] [Far East Network Philippines Clark Air Base Coverage of Mount Pinatubo Eruption ]
2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
2017 – A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.
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