OUTLOOK
High pressure will build over the region in the wake of a departing trough today. The high tracks east off the Carolina coast Friday, leading to warmer high temperatures Friday and Saturday. A potential tropical low tracking out of the Gulf of Mexico may lead to an influx of moisture later this weekend. Early next week, the low should track out of the southeastern United States, followed by a cold front arriving from the northwest. Past midweek, dry high pressure should return to the region.
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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 Saturday Night
Franklin area
Today
Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-50s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the south 3 to 5 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 5 mph.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Otto area
Today
Areas of fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Light winds out of the north.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s.
Saturday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-60s.
Nantahala area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light and variable winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Light and variable winds.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the southwest.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the 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 Thu Jun 17 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A broad low pressure area located over the eastern portion of the Bay of Campeche is producing widespread cloudiness and disorganized showers and a few thunderstorms. This system will move little today, and little if any development is expected during that time due to interaction with land and unfavorable upper-level winds. However, the low should begin to move northward by this afternoon, and a tropical or subtropical depression is likely to form by late tonight or on Friday when the low moves across the western Gulf of Mexico. An Air Force Reserve Unit reconnaissance aircraft is scheduled to investigate the disturbance this afternoon, if necessary. Regardless of development, heavy rainfall will continue over portions of Central America and southern Mexico during the next few days. Heavy rains should 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...high...80 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
TROPICAL TIDBITS
Tropical Tidbits is a website run by Macon Media's favorite no-nonsense tropical forecaster, Levi Cowan. He does not post material just to get clicks or to sensationalize the storms he covers to "make them more exciting." He is reliable and sober, unlike The Weather Channel crowd of Drama Queen Meteorologists.
Levi typically posts videos late in the afternoon or early before midnight on Youtube. [Youtube Channel]
Tropical Storm Expected to Form in Gulf of Mexico Thursday or Friday
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 (4.5 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Walnut being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range range (4.4 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on June 17th
Highest Temperature 93°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2015
Lowest Temperature 36°F in Highlands in 1917
Greatest Rainfall 2.91 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1951
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]
TWiV 769: MIS-C and leaky gut
(This Week in Virology)
On This Day
June 17th is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 197 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)
653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
• [Wikipedia: Pope Martin I]
• [Wikipedia: Monothelitism]
• [VIDEO: Saint Martin I, Pope and Martyr]
656 - Ali ibn Abu Talib elected the 4th Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [Wikipedia: Rashidun Caliphate]
• [The Rashidun Caliphate and the Islamic Conquests | Casual Historian | Islamic History]
1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt in Paris.
• [Nicholas Donin and the Disputation of 1240]
• [Wikipedia: The Disputation of Paris]
• [General Article About Disputations]
1397 – The Kalmar Union is formed under the rule of Margaret I of Denmark.
• [Wikipedia: Kalmar Union]
• [Wikipedia: Margaret I of Denmark]
• [The Kalmar Union - The Original Nordic Union]
1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack at Târgovişte), forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
• [VIDEO: Dracula vs Mehmed Fatih - Night Attack at Targoviste]
• [Wikipedia: Night Attack at Targoviste]
• [Wikipedia: Vlad the Impaler]
• [Wikipedia: Mehmed the Conqueror]
1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
• [Wikipedia: Cornish rebellion of 1497]
• [The Battle of Blackheath]
• [The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 - The History of Cornwall]
1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
• [VIDEO: The Assassination of the Shogun | Sengoku Jidai Episode 20]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Matsunaga Hisahide]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Ashikaga Yoshiteru]
1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
• [Wikipedia: New Albion]
1596 – The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
• [Wikipedia Bio/a>]
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Mumtaz Mahal]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Shah Jahan]
• [Official Website of the Taj Mahal] (reopened 06-16-2021)
• [Wikipedia: Taj Mahal]
• [4K Taj Mahal Walking Tour (With Tour Guide) - Agra Tour]
• [Taj Mahal with Guide English]
• [Lost Worlds: Taj Mahal (S2, E18) | Full Episode | History]
1665 – Battle of Montes Claros: Portugal definitively secured independence from Spain in the last battle of the Portuguese Restoration War.
• [VIDEO: War of Portuguese Succession | 3 Minute History]
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Montes Claros]
• [Wikipedia: Portuguese Restoration War]
1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
• [SciHi Blog]
• [Journal by Jacques Marquette]
1767 – Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
• [Encyclopedia.com article of Expedition]
• [VIDEO: European discovery of Tahiti]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Samuel Wallis]
1773 – Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Juana Rangel de Cuéllar]
• [Wikipedia: Cúcuta]
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Bunker Hill]
• [Battle Stack: The Battle of Bunker Hill tactics]
• [Simple History: Battle of Bunker Hill (The American Revolution)]
1789 – In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
• [The Estates General of 1789 (French Revolution: Part 2)]
• [The 3 French Estates]
1794 – Foundation of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom.
• [Wikipedia article]
1795 – The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic.
• [Swellendam]
• [Swellendam Heritage Association History]
1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Wikipedia: Laplace affair]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Kamehameha III]
1843 – The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
• [Wikipedia: Wairau Affray]
• [VIDEO: Trouble at Tuamarina - Roadside Stories]
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
• [Wikipedia article]
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
• [The Civil War at Mt. Zion Church & Aldie Mill]
• [Wikipedia article]
1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundered Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Rosebud]
• [VIDEO: Chief Plenty Coups at Battle of Rosebud]
1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
• [The Nez Perce last stand | Chief Joseph (Part 1)]
• [The Nez Perce last stand | Chief Joseph (Part 2)]
• [Wikipedia article]
1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• [The Statue of Liberty Arrived in New York in 350 Pieces]
• [History.com article]
• [HistoryPod Video]
1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
• [Wikipedia: Hospital corpsman]
• [Official Website]
• [Promo Video: Navy Hospital Corpsman]
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Taku Forts (1900)]
1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [Wikipedia: A Vlaicu I]
1922 – Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
1929 – The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
• [Silent Newsreel]
• [Wikipedia article]
1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
• [Wikipedia: Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act]
• [FEE: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression]
• [NPR: Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act: A Classic Economics Horror Story]
1932 – Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
• [Wikipedia: Bonus Army]
• [National Park Service Article]
• [PBS Documentary: The March of the Bonus Army]
• [History Brief: Hoovervilles and the Bonus Army ]
• [Bonus Army: US military attacks demonstrating American War Veterans]
1933 – Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
• [Kansas City History: Union Station Massacre]
• [Kansas City Massacre from True Stories from the Files of the FBI]
• [Kansas City massacre]
• [FBI: Kansas City Massacre/“Pretty Boy” Floyd]
1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
• [Wikipedia
1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
• [The Story of RMS Lancastria ]
• [Documentary on the Lancastria sinking]
1940 – World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
• [Black & White Frontline WWII - The North African Campaign - Full Documentary]
• [Wikipedia article]
1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
• [Wikipedia article]
1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
• [Wikipedia: Icelandic independence movement]
1948 – United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Coal Speaker: United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Centralia PA]
• [Flight Sim Reconstruction]
1952 – Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
• [Wikipedia: Decree 900]
• [Wikipedia: Guatemalan Revolution]
• [Multicultural Music Encounters XIII: Decisions /“Decree 900: The UFCo’s Nightmare”]
1953 – Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [US State Department Article]
• [VIDEO: East German Rebellion 1953]
• [Newsreel]
1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
• [Disasters of the Century | Season 3 | Episode 32 | Second Narrows Bridge Collapse | Ian Coulson]
• [Newsreel] (low volume)
• [Ironworker's Memorial Bridge - 19 Scarlet Roses]
1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
• [Wikipedia: Abington School District v. Schempp]
• [JUSTIA: School Dist. of Abington Tp. v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)]
1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
1967 – Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
• [VIDEO: Chinese Film About Test]
• [English language film about the test]
• [NSA Archive Briefing Book]
1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process.
• [History.com: Watergate burglars arrested]
• [FBI VAULT: Watergate]
• [John Dean Recounts How He Learned About the Watergate Arrests]
1985 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
• [NBC News Coverage of The STS-51-G Launch]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [Wikipedia: STS-51-G]
1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [The Last Member of a Dying Species - The Story of the Dusky Seaside Sparrow]
1991 – Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
• [C-SPAN: Repeal of Population Registration Act]
• [Wikipedia article]
1992 – A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
• [Federation of American Scientists: Fact Sheet]
• [Wikipedia: START II]
1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
• [CNN Article on 25th Anniversary]
• [CBS News - O.J. Simpson chase - 1994-06-17 - 1 of 2]
• [CBS News - O.J. Simpson chase - 1994-06-17 - 2 of 2]
2015 – Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
• [President Obama Delivers a Statement on the Shooting in South Carolina]
• [Wikipedia articleT]
2017 – A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Portugal Forest Fires: At Least 61 Dead In Nation’s Worst Fire In Decades | NBC Nightly News]
• [Newscast: Portugal Wildfires - June 2017]
2019 - Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, Kate Gallego apologies for local police threatening to shoot African American family after their four-year shoplifted a doll
2019 - Activist Joshua Wong calls on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to resign after leaving prison amid street protests the day before of over 2 million people.
• [Live Video of protests on June 17, 2019]
2020 - Former police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta charged with his murder and aggravated assault
• [CBS Evening News]
• [Wikipedia article ]
2020 - First major breakthrough in treating COVID-19 using steroid dexamethasone announced by Oxford University
• [Dexamethasone reduces death in hospitalised patients with severe respiratory complications of COVID-19]
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