OUTLOOK
Weak high pressure will build into the area today, as Claudette exits off the East Coast. A cold front will bring more widespread showers and storms back to the region on Tuesday. Drier and cooler high pressure builds in from the northwest Wednesday through Thursday. Then, the high will slide east, as another cold front approaches from the west late in the 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.
NC Dept of Justice Releases May 2021 Highlights [LINK]
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Wednesday Night
Franklin area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 10pm and 1am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then showers likely. Highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three-quarters and one inch possible.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 9pm and 2am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2am. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows around 50. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs near 70. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three-quarters and one inch possible.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
Otto area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 9pm and 2am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2am. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-60s. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. High in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Nantahala area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Light winds out of the southwest increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1pm, then showers likely. Highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-70s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-50s.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather in not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Jun 21 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Claudette, located inland over North Carolina.
1. A tropical wave located about 1000 miles east of the Windward Islands is producing a small area of thunderstorm activity. This system has a slight chance of development during the next couple of days before upper-level winds become less conducive for further organization by Thursday. The wave is expected to move westward at 10 to 15 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the lower range of yellow 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 low-medium range (3.6 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.5 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on June 21st
Highest Temperature 93°F in Franklin in 1953
Lowest Temperature 42°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1985
Greatest Rainfall 4.72 inches in Highlands in 1961
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 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 193 days remain until the end of the year. This day usually marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, which is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere and the fewest hours of daylight in the Southern Hemisphere.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
68 - Roman General Vespasian conquers Jericho during the Great Jewish Revolt
• [Ancient Jewish History: The Great Revolt]
• [Wikipedia: First Jewish–Roman War]
• [The Great Jewish Revolt | The Jewish Story Explained | Unpacked]
254 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians, defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vézeronce]
533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
1128 - Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan and succeeding his uncle Temür Khan.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Külüg Khan]
• [Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong Of Yuan]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Temür Khan]
1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Landriano]
• [Wikipedia: War of the League of Cognac]
• [Italian Wars Video Playlist]
1529 - Queen Catherine Of England [Catherine of Aragon] speaks against her marriage's annulment at the Blackfriars Legatine Court
• [VIDEO: June 21 - Catherine of Aragon steals the show]
• [Audio Performance of Queen Katherine of Aragon and The Legatine Court]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Catherine of Aragon]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Henry VIII]
1547 - Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
• [Wikipedia: Fire of Moscow (1547)]
1572 - Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
1582 – Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
• [Wikipedia: Daimyo]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Oda Nobunaga]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Akechi Mitsuhide]
1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established at Jamestown
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of White Mountain]
• [Kings and Generals: Thirty Years' War - White Mountain]
• [LINKTEXT]
1667 - Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
• [Wikipedia: Second Anglo-Dutch War]
1672 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
• [Wikipedia: Franco-Dutch War]
1675 - Foundation stone for London's St. Paul’s Cathedral is laid
1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 – James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
• [Wikipedia Bio: James Otis Jr.]
• [Portraits in Revolution: James Otis, Jr.]
• [CMN 627 Lecture 1 James Otis, Writs of Assistance]
1788 – US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
• [Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution]
1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
• [Wikipedia: Flight to Varennes]
• [21st June 1791: Louis XVI's attempted escape from Paris in the Flight to Varennes]
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
• [Irish Rebellion of 1798 | 3 Minute History]
• [VIDEO: The Battle of Vinegar Hill]
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vinegar Hill]
1813 – Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vitoria]
• [Epic History TV: Wellington's Triumph: Vitoria 1813 ]
• [The Dole Institute of Politics]
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
• [The Greek Revolution | How Did Greece Get Its Independence?]
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
• [Wikipedia: Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani]
1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
• [Wallachian Revolution of 1848]
• [VIDEO: Wallachian Revolution]
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road]
1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
• [A Brief History of: The Capture of Guam]
• [Wikipedia: Capture of Guam]
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
• [Why did the Qing declare War on "everyone"? - Boxer Rebellion]
• [Wikipedia: Boxer Rebellion]
• [The Boxer Rebellion l HISTORY OF CHINA]
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
• [Wikipedia: Guinn v. United States]
• [ntold Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: Voting Rights & the Grandfather Clause]
1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
• [Winnipeg General Strike]
• [The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike: 100 years later]
• [Wikipedia: Winnipeg general strike]
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
• [Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [Animation of the 1919 German Fleet Scuttle in Scapa Flow]
1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
• [Wikipedia: Cristero War]
• [1930s Mexico During the Cristero War]
• [Behind the scenes of "For Greater Glory: The True Story of the Cristiada"]
1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
• [The Alpine Front of World War 2 - The Italian Invasion of France 1940]
• [Italian invasion of France]
1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces; 33,000 Allied troops are taken prisoner.
• [Wikipedia: Axis capture of Tobruk]
• [Newsreel] (Italian language, no subtitles)
• [Tobruk: A second siege?]
• [orth African Campaign 1940 | Animated History]
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
• [Wikipedia: Bombardment of Fort Stevens]
• [Japanese Attack Oregon! (Bombardment of Fort Stevens)]
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Okinawa]
• [US NAVY: The Fleet That Came To Stay (1945)]
• [Battle of Okinawa | Animated History]
• [Battlefield S6/E4 - Destination Okinawa]
1948 - Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
• [CBS News Special Report]
• [NBC News Special Report]
• [Wikipedia: Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner]
1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
• [Penn Central Bankruptcy Sends Shock Waves Through Commercial Paper Market]
• [Wikipedia: Penn Central Bankruptcy]
• [From the Standard of the World to the Largest Bankruptcy: The Penn Central Story]
1973 – In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Miller v. California]
• [Miller v California (1973)]
• [Obscenity and Free Speech: The Miller Test]
1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
• [Wikipedia: Evita (musical)]
• [Spanish Language Musical]
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1989 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
• [Wikipedia: Texas v. Johnson]
• [SCOTUS Simplified: Texas v Johnson]
• [ABC News Report]
1993 - English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
• [University of Oxford: What is Fermat's Last Theorem?]
• [Fermat's Last Theorem - Numberphile]
• [Andrew Wiles talks to Hannah Fry]
• [Wikipedia: Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem]
2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• [SpaceShip One X-Prize Flight #1 Launch Mike Melvill]
2005 – Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
• [C-SPAN3 Coverage]
2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.
2012 – A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
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Published at 4:30am on Monday, June 21, 2021
NC Dept of Justice Releases May 2021 Highlights [LINK]
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Wednesday Night
Franklin area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 10pm and 1am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then showers likely. Highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three-quarters and one inch possible.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 9pm and 2am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2am. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows around 50. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs near 70. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three-quarters and one inch possible.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
Otto area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 9pm and 2am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2am. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-60s. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. High in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Nantahala area
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Light winds out of the southwest increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1pm, then showers likely. Highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-70s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-50s.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather in not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Mon Jun 21 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Claudette, located inland over North Carolina.
1. A tropical wave located about 1000 miles east of the Windward Islands is producing a small area of thunderstorm activity. This system has a slight chance of development during the next couple of days before upper-level winds become less conducive for further organization by Thursday. The wave is expected to move westward at 10 to 15 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the lower range of yellow 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 low-medium range (3.6 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.5 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on June 21st
Highest Temperature 93°F in Franklin in 1953
Lowest Temperature 42°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1985
Greatest Rainfall 4.72 inches in Highlands in 1961
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 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 193 days remain until the end of the year. This day usually marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, which is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere and the fewest hours of daylight in the Southern Hemisphere.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
68 - Roman General Vespasian conquers Jericho during the Great Jewish Revolt
• [Ancient Jewish History: The Great Revolt]
• [Wikipedia: First Jewish–Roman War]
• [The Great Jewish Revolt | The Jewish Story Explained | Unpacked]
254 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians, defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vézeronce]
533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
1128 - Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan and succeeding his uncle Temür Khan.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Külüg Khan]
• [Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong Of Yuan]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Temür Khan]
1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Landriano]
• [Wikipedia: War of the League of Cognac]
• [Italian Wars Video Playlist]
1529 - Queen Catherine Of England [Catherine of Aragon] speaks against her marriage's annulment at the Blackfriars Legatine Court
• [VIDEO: June 21 - Catherine of Aragon steals the show]
• [Audio Performance of Queen Katherine of Aragon and The Legatine Court]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Catherine of Aragon]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Henry VIII]
1547 - Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
• [Wikipedia: Fire of Moscow (1547)]
1572 - Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
1582 – Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
• [Wikipedia: Daimyo]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Oda Nobunaga]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Akechi Mitsuhide]
1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established at Jamestown
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of White Mountain]
• [Kings and Generals: Thirty Years' War - White Mountain]
• [LINKTEXT]
1667 - Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
• [Wikipedia: Second Anglo-Dutch War]
1672 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
• [Wikipedia: Franco-Dutch War]
1675 - Foundation stone for London's St. Paul’s Cathedral is laid
1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 – James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
• [Wikipedia Bio: James Otis Jr.]
• [Portraits in Revolution: James Otis, Jr.]
• [CMN 627 Lecture 1 James Otis, Writs of Assistance]
1788 – US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
• [Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution]
1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
• [Wikipedia: Flight to Varennes]
• [21st June 1791: Louis XVI's attempted escape from Paris in the Flight to Varennes]
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
• [Irish Rebellion of 1798 | 3 Minute History]
• [VIDEO: The Battle of Vinegar Hill]
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vinegar Hill]
1813 – Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vitoria]
• [Epic History TV: Wellington's Triumph: Vitoria 1813 ]
• [The Dole Institute of Politics]
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
• [The Greek Revolution | How Did Greece Get Its Independence?]
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
• [Wikipedia: Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani]
1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
• [Wallachian Revolution of 1848]
• [VIDEO: Wallachian Revolution]
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road]
1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
• [A Brief History of: The Capture of Guam]
• [Wikipedia: Capture of Guam]
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
• [Why did the Qing declare War on "everyone"? - Boxer Rebellion]
• [Wikipedia: Boxer Rebellion]
• [The Boxer Rebellion l HISTORY OF CHINA]
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
• [Wikipedia: Guinn v. United States]
• [ntold Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: Voting Rights & the Grandfather Clause]
1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
• [Winnipeg General Strike]
• [The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike: 100 years later]
• [Wikipedia: Winnipeg general strike]
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
• [Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [Animation of the 1919 German Fleet Scuttle in Scapa Flow]
1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
• [Wikipedia: Cristero War]
• [1930s Mexico During the Cristero War]
• [Behind the scenes of "For Greater Glory: The True Story of the Cristiada"]
1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
• [The Alpine Front of World War 2 - The Italian Invasion of France 1940]
• [Italian invasion of France]
1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces; 33,000 Allied troops are taken prisoner.
• [Wikipedia: Axis capture of Tobruk]
• [Newsreel] (Italian language, no subtitles)
• [Tobruk: A second siege?]
• [orth African Campaign 1940 | Animated History]
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
• [Wikipedia: Bombardment of Fort Stevens]
• [Japanese Attack Oregon! (Bombardment of Fort Stevens)]
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Okinawa]
• [US NAVY: The Fleet That Came To Stay (1945)]
• [Battle of Okinawa | Animated History]
• [Battlefield S6/E4 - Destination Okinawa]
1948 - Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
• [CBS News Special Report]
• [NBC News Special Report]
• [Wikipedia: Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner]
1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
• [Penn Central Bankruptcy Sends Shock Waves Through Commercial Paper Market]
• [Wikipedia: Penn Central Bankruptcy]
• [From the Standard of the World to the Largest Bankruptcy: The Penn Central Story]
1973 – In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Miller v. California]
• [Miller v California (1973)]
• [Obscenity and Free Speech: The Miller Test]
1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
• [Wikipedia: Evita (musical)]
• [Spanish Language Musical]
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1989 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
• [Wikipedia: Texas v. Johnson]
• [SCOTUS Simplified: Texas v Johnson]
• [ABC News Report]
1993 - English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
• [University of Oxford: What is Fermat's Last Theorem?]
• [Fermat's Last Theorem - Numberphile]
• [Andrew Wiles talks to Hannah Fry]
• [Wikipedia: Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem]
2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• [SpaceShip One X-Prize Flight #1 Launch Mike Melvill]
2005 – Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
• [C-SPAN3 Coverage]
2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.
2012 – A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
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