OUTLOOK
Abundant moisture will persist over the region again today as a back door cold front arrives from the northeast late this afternoon. The front will settle just south of the area through Sunday, and provide a focus for active weather through the day. Another cold front approaches from the northwest on Monday and crosses to the Atlantic coast on Tuesday. High pressure will return from the northwest mid 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.
NC Dept of Justice Releases May 2021 Highlights [LINK]
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Sunday Night
Franklin area
Today
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 9am. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly 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. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light and variable winds.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Today
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 9am. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Otto area
Today
Today
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 8am. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Winds out of the north 3 to 6 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s.
Nantahala area
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Areas of fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest wind 3 to 5 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s.
HAZARDS
Numerous to widespread showers and thunderstorms will develop across the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia today, with the greatest coverage during the afternoon and early evening hours. The thunderstorms will have the potential to produce torrential downpours in affected areas and localized flooding may develop in any locations that see repeated thunderstorms in a short period of time. The thunderstorms will also produce dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning and gusty winds.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sat Jun 12 2021 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A trough of low pressure is expected to form by early next week over the Bay of Campeche in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. Some slow development is possible thereafter as this system drifts northward.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 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 low-medium range (3.5 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Walnut being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium range range (4.5 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on June 12th
Highest Temperature 92°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1964
Lowest Temperature 35°F in Highlands in 1913
Greatest Rainfall 3.84 inches in Highlands in 1899
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
On This Day
June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 202 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)
28 - Roman General Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome, awarded for fighting in Gaul
910 – Battle of Augsburg (Battle of Lechfeld): The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
• [Wikipedia article]
1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris (Trial of the Talmud), starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [The Trial of the Talmud, 1240 - 2020]
1381 – Peasants' Revolt(Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising): In England, rebels assemble at Blackheath, just outside London.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Timeline Documentary]
• [The History Guy]
1418 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter sympathizers of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.
• [Wikipedia article about the civil war]
1429 – Hundred Years' War: On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.• [Wikipedia article]
1442 - King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples
1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1553 - King Edward VI accepts Archbishop Cranmer's "42 Articles"
• [A Web of English History]
1560 - Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [The Battle of Okehazama | Sengoku Jidai Episode 17]
• [Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai - Battle of Okehazama - Extra History - #1]
1651 - The newly completed Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini is unveiled in Rome
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Rome.us]
1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [VIDEO: Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652-1674]
• [The History Guy]
1665 – New Amsterdam legally becomes an English colony and renamed New York after English Duke of York and Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
1667 - Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet
• [VIDEO: Michiel de Ruyter: One of the Greatest Admirals in History]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1683 - Rye house plot against English King Charles II uncovered
• [Wikipedia article]
• [VIDEO: James Scott The Duke Of Monmouth]
• [The Messy Beheading Execution of the Duke of Monmouth by John Ketch]
1701 - Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
• [Wikipedia article]
1714 - Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty
• [Prussian-Russian Alliance Treaty (1714)]
1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences.
• [Wikipedia article]
1772 – French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand.
1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
• [Minutemen Militia article ]
• [New England Historical Society/a>]
• [APUSH Lecture 6: Seeds of the American Revolution]
1775 - American Revolution: Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br)
1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
• [Colonial Williamsburg: A Declaration of Rights]
• [Avalon Project: Virginia Declaration of Rights]
1792 - Captain George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, British Columbia
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
• [Wikipedia article]
1817 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.
• [Dandy Horse - The Forerunner of the Bicycle]
1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1830 – Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thiry-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
1830 - Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Massachusetts
1859 - Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered, first major silver discovery in the US
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Comstock Lode: Bonanza Kings of the Silver Rush in Virginia City, Nevada]
• [Comstock's Annual Meeting on 6/3/2021 (NYSE:LODE) ]
1864 - Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south. General Lee sends Jubal A. Early into Shenandoah Valley
• [Cold Harbor: Richmond Animated Battle Map]
• [The Overland Campaign: Animated Battle Map]
1864 - The Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War in Louisa County ends with Confederate tactical victory and Union successful retreat
• [Wikipedia article]
1891 - Evidence that bacteria are necessary to process nitrogen into a form useable by living creatures was presented by Sergey Winogradsky to the French Academy of Sciences.
1897 - The Swiss Army Knife was patented by Karl Elsener.
• [The Fascinating History of the Swiss Army Knife]
• [Swiss Army Knife Documentary]
1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
• [Declaration of Philippine Independence: Biak na Bato Pact and the road to 1898 Independence]
• [Wikipedia article]
1899 – New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [National Weather Service]
1909 - The ceremonial opening was held for the Queensboro Bridge, the first significant double-deck bridge in the U.S. It had been opened to traffic on 30 Mar 1909.
• [The Queensboro Bridge: Opening Queens to the world]
• [Wikipedia]
1914 – Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
• [Wolopedia]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wop9Uh8pTxA]
1921 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
• [he Peasants Rise Up Against The Bolsheviks - The Russian Civil War(s) 1920 I THE GREAT WAR 1920]
• [Wikipedia article]
1931 - Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1933 - The electrobasograph invented by Dr R. Plato Schwartz (1894-1965) of The Myodynamics Laboratory of the University of Rochester, N.Y., was first exhibited in the U.S. to the American Medical Association convention in Milwaukee, Wisc.
• [Health Encyclopedia]
1934 - Black-McKeller Bill passes causes the break-up of William Boeing's empire into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Airlines
• [Cornell Law School]
1935 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.
1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana speaks continually for 15½ hours in then Senate's longest speech (150,000 words)
• [The Time a Senator Spoke for 24-Hours Straight]
• [Huey P. Long V: Kingfishers and Filibusters]
• [US Senate: Huey Long Filibusters New Deal Legislation]
1937 - After a one-day show trial, eight Soviet generals are sentenced to death and executed by the NKVD
• [Stalin's Massive Military Purge Almost Doomed the Soviet Union]
1938 – The Helsinki Olympic Stadium was inaugurated in Töölö, Helsinki, Finland.
1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Cyclops]
• [Movie Trailer]
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
• [Museum Video]
1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
• [Remembering Donald and the brave men of St Valéry (Dunkirk) WWII (UK/France) BBC News - 12 June 2020]
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1942 - World War II: Adolf Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
1943 – The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
1944 - World War II: 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
• [General V1 Rocket Footage]
• [The V-1 Flying Bomb: The Nazi Cruise Missile]
• [Wikipedia article]
1944 – World War II: Operation Overlord: American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.
• [Forgotten Fights: The 101st Airborne at Carentan, June 1944 by Author Mitch Yockelson, PhD]
• [Wikipedia]
• [101st Airborne - Attack on Carentan]
1945 - US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
1963 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
• [The Assassination of Medgar Evers - A Hero Silenced - Extra History]
• [Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1988 Medgar Evers Memorial at Arlington Cemetery
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
• [Wikipedia article]
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Loving v. Virginia Case Brief Summary | Law Case Explained]
• [Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)]
1975 – India, Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha of the city of Allahabad ruled that India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had used corrupt practices to win her seat in the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any public office. Mrs. Gandhi sent word that she refused to resign.
1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Gossamer Albatross: Flight of Imagination]
• [NASA Silent B-Roll of Takeoff]
1982 - 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC
• [Anti-Nuke Rally,NYC ,June 12,1982]
• [Audio: Orson Welles at 1982 anti-nuke rally]
1982 - Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands
• [The Falklands War Documentary - The Battle of Mount Longdon (Soldiers Interview HD)]
• [Wikipedia]
1983 - Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth
• [Wikipedia article]
1986 - P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency
• [AP VIDEO/a>]
1987 – The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
• [AP article]
• [The Craziest Dictator You've Never Heard of | Jean-Bédel Bokassa]
1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• ["Berlin Wall" Speech - President Reagan's Address at the Brandenburg Gate - 6/12/87]
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Nov. 10, 1989: Celebration at the Berlin Wall]
1988 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Russians first democratically elected Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia with 57% of the vote.
1991 – Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
• [Wikipedia article]
1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military Government of Ibrahim Babangida.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered outside Simpson's home in Los Angeles. Her estranged husband, O.J. Simpson is later charged with the murders, but is acquitted by a jury.
• [History.com article]
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• [AP VIDEO]
• [Wikipedia article]
2004 - A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries
• [The Ellerslie meteorite]
2007 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [The Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center: Online Biography and List of Biographies]
• [The Gulag Archipelago and The Wisdom of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]
2009 – Analog television stations (excluding low-powered stations) switch to digital television following the DTV Delay Act.
2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
2015 - Zimbabwe discards its own currency, offering an exchange of $1 for 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars
2015 - Al-Qaeda's 2nd-in-command Nasser al-Wuhayshi (Osama Bin Laden's former private secretary) is killed in a US air strike in Yemen
• [France 24 News]
2016 – Gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State opens fire at gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49, injuring 53 - worst mass shooting in the US at that time; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
• [50 dead in Orlando gay club shooting suspect is Omar Mateen - BBC News]
• [Wikipedia]
2017 – American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.
• [Otto Warmbier was 'blind and deaf' when he returned to the US from North Korea, parents say]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
2017 - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced to 30 days administrative arrest for organizing rallies
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [Alexei Navalny: 'Putin is the Tsar of corruption' - BBC Newsnight]
2018 – United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.
• [Guardian Livestream]
• [NBC Special Report: Trump meets North Korea's Kim Jong Un in the DMZ]
• [Wikipedia article]
2020 - African American Rayshard Brooks shot dead in drive-through carpark in Atlanta leading to further protests at police violence and the resignation of city's police chief
• [Wikipedia article]
• [How a Police Encounter Turned Fatal: The Killing of Rayshard Brooks | Visual Investigations]
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