OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure near the Great Lakes will move to near the Carolinas by Thursday continuing the slightly cooler temperatures. The high moves off the Carolina coast on Friday causing a return to above normal temperatures. Moisture increases over the weekend as a tropical low moves north from the Gulf bringing heavy rain to portions of the Southeast. Early next week, a cold front exits the Midwest and enhances rainfall for our region.
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Local News Update
(National News is published after the Macon Calendar section)
Weather-related Video WeatherBrains #804
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 Friday Night
Franklin area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 80s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. WInds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Light and variable winds.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60.
Otto area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 80s.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s.
Nantahala area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the north 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds.
Thursday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-80s.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not anticipated today or tonight.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Wed Jun 16 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center has issued the last advisory on Post- Tropical Cyclone Bill, located a couple hundred miles southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland.
1. Disorganized showers and thunderstorms continue over the Bay of Campeche and southern Mexico in association with a broad low pressure area. This system will move little during the next day or so, and little if any development is expected during that time due to interaction with land. However, the broad disturbance should begin to move northward on Thursday, and a tropical depression is likely to form by late Thursday or on Friday when the low moves across the western Gulf of Mexico. Regardless of development, heavy rainfall will continue over portions of Central America and southern Mexico during the next several days. Heavy rains could also begin to affect portions of the northern Gulf Coast on Friday. Please consult products from your local meteorological service for more information.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle 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 (4.6 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Walnut being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range range (4.6 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on June 15th
Highest Temperature 90°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2015
Lowest Temperature 38°F in Highlands in 1917
Greatest Rainfall 7.63 inches in Highlands in 1949
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
NYC to throw ticker tape parade in July to celebrate health care heroes, essential workers [LINK]
Level1 News June 16 2021: Amateur Amazon Astronaut
On This Day
June 16th is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 198 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)
363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.
• [Julian’s Gamble in the Desert]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).
• [VIDEO BIO]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [Wikipedia: Sasanian Empire]
1407 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán Thương of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies.
• [Ming–Hồ War]
1487 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Stoke Field]
• [Nottinghamshire County Council]
• [The FORGOTTEN Final Battle Of The Wars Of The Roses ]
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison, Scotland
• [On This Day in Tudor History]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [Wikipedia: Babington Plot]
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
1673 - Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg
• [Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Vossem_(1673)]
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date).
• [Siege of Louisbourg (1745)]
• [War of the Austrian Succession]
• [War of the Spanish Succession | Animated History]
1746 – War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
• [Wikipedia article]
1755 – French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
• [LINK TEXT]
• [Parks Canada: The siege of 1755]
1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• [Wikipedia article on the siege]
• [The Great Siege of Gibraltar 1779-1783]
• [Why Does Britain Own Gibraltar? (Short Animated Documentary)]
1784 - Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes
• [No Orange Clothes Day]
1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later.
• [Conwallis's Retreat]
1811 – Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Bloody Point]
1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
• [The Battle of Ligny and Quatre Bras]
1819 – A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6 m high, 6 km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80 km, that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").
• [The Wire: The Significance of the 1819 Allah Bund Earthquake, 200 Years on]
1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
• [Wikipedia: Chartism]
1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Speech Performed by a Lincoln Impersonator]
• [Matthew Pinsker: Understanding Lincoln: House Divided Speech (1858)]
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia
• [Wikipedia]
• [National Park Service: Lynchburg Campaign- June 14 - June 22, 1864]
1864 - American Civil War: Skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia
1871 – The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
• [Wikipedia]
• [Text of Legislation]
1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
• [Traveling Templars]
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
• [Wikipedia article]
• [BBC Proms 2005 - Sullivan - HMS Pinafore (Proms premiere)]
1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [The disaster as told by Marie Gardiner]
• [The Victoria Hall Disaster | Fascinating Horror]
1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• [LaMarcus Adna Thompson's Scenic Railways at Coney Island]
1893 - RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
• [Wikipedia: Cracker Jack]
• [racker Jack and the prize inside - Life in America]
1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
• [Wikipedia: Republic of Hawaii]
1900 - In China, a fire is set by Boxers, virtually destroying the Western Quarter and spreading to engulf many Chinese landmarks
• [Wikipedia: Boxer Rebellion]
1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• [History.com Article]
1903 – Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• [Wikipedia Bio of Eugen Schauman]
• [Wikipedia Bio of Nikolay Bobrikov]
• [Music Video Tribute to Schauman]
1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
• [Bloomsday - James Joyce]
1907 - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dissolves the Second Duma (parliament) and issues an edict that will increase representation of propertied classes while reducing that of peasants, workers and national minorities
1908 - The Republican Party convenes in Chicago where President Theodore Roosevelt picks William Howard Taft as his successor
• [Wikipedia article]
1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
• [Wikipedia article]
1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn
• [Wisconsin Dell Events]
1922 – General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority.
• [Wikipedia: 1922 Irish General Election]
1923 - Sun Yat Sen founds Chinese military academy
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
• [Wikipedia article]
1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1932 US President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Republican Convention
• [Wikipedia article]
1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [National Industrial Recovery Act: FDR’s Statement – 1933]
• [Rise and Fall of the National Industrial Recovery Act]
1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
1940 – World War II: A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1944 – In a gross miscarriage of justice, George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century after being convicted in a two-hour trial for the rape and murder of two teenage white girls.
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [George Stinney Jr. Was The Youngest American Ever Put To Death In The Electric Chair – Then His Conviction Was Overturned]
• [CNN Story]
1944 - Iceland adopts constitution
• [Wikipedia article]
1944 - World War II: King George VI visits General Montgomery's HQ in Normandy
• [Newsreel]
• [RADIO REPORT: ing George VI visits Normandy : 16 June 1944]
1944 - World War II: US bombs Kyushu Japan
1948 – Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
1955 – In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.
1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1961 – While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• [Nureyev defects to the West]
• [Rudolf Nureyev's great leap to freedom]
1961 - Discoverer 25 launched
• [Wikipedia article]
• [NASA Mission Page]
• [LINK TEXT]
1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
• [Wikipedia: Vostok 6]
• [Wikipedia: Valentina Tereshkova]
1963 – In an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam, a Joint Communique was signed between President Ngo Dinh Diem and Buddhist leaders.
1963 - Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister
1972 – The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
• [Newscast: Churchill Falls Hydro]
1976 – Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
• [South Africa's June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising | Our History]
• [Wikipedia article]
1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev named Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
• [President Reagan’s Remarks at an Award Presentation to Ambassador Kenneth Taylor on June 16, 1981]
• [Reflections on Iran | Ken Taylor | Talks at Google]
• [Ken Taylor: 'The right man in the wrong place at the right time']
1983 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
• [1983: Pilgrimage of hope – the Pope in communist Poland under martial law]
• [Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism]
1983 - General Secretary Yuri Andropov appointed President of the Soviet Union
• [Stories From Somewhere - Yuri Andropov]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1987 - New York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
• [ABC7 News]
• [Wikipedia: 1984 New York City Subway shooting]
1989 – Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
1997 – Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
• [Wikipedia: List of massacres during the Algerian Civil War]
• [Islamic Extremists Target Civilians As Algerian Conflict Intensifies]
1999 - Thabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
• [AP VIDEO]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
2000 – The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22 years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon.
2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
• [Wikipedia article]
2012 – China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
• [Wikipedia: Shenzhou 9]
• [Space.com article]
2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
2013 – A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
• [Youtube Videos]
2015 - TV personality and Real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for the Republican nomination for US President at Trump Towers
• [C-SPAN VIDEO]
2016 – Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public.
• [ABC News Story (ABC is owned by Disney)]
• [Walking Tour]
• [Wikipedia article]
2017 - US President Donald Trump reinstates Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by President Obama
• [Reuters Article]
2019 – Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.
• [Wikipedia: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests]
• [Bloomberg Special Report: Hong Kong on Edge]
2020 - At least 20 Indian soldiers killed in 1st deadly clash on the Chinese Indian border in 45 years in the Galwan Valley, Himalayas
2020 - Support from Manchester United player Marcus Rashford and others forces UK Government to make U-turn on summer school meal vouchers
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