OUTLOOK
A cold front will bring widespread showers and storms to the region today, then usher in continental high pressure for Wednesday, causing a drop in temperatures and a lull in active weather through Thursday. Over the weekend, renewed moisture should spur a cycle of diurnal showers and thunderstorms in advance of a slowly-approaching cold front early next 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 Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a slight chance of showers between noon and 2pm. Patchy fog before 10am. 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 a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a slight chance of showers between noon and 2pm. Patchy fog before 11am. Highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the east 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
Otto area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog before 10am. High in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 10am. Highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 8 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Patchy fog between 3am and 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the southeast.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
HAZARDS
Isolated thunderstorms remain possible over the area through the early morning hours. The main threats will be from locally heavy rainfall and occasional cloud to ground lightning.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Tue Jun 22 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center has issued the last advisory on the remnants of Claudette, located a couple of hundred miles southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1. A tropical wave located about 650 miles east-southeast of the Windward Islands is producing disorganized showers and a few thunderstorms. Some additional development of this disturbance will be possible during the next couple of days before upper-level winds become less conducive for further organization by Thursday. The system is expected to move westward to west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 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 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 (5.0 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (4.1 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on June 21st
Highest Temperature 96°F in Franklin in 1964
Lowest Temperature 40°F in Highlands in 1992
Greatest Rainfall 3.65 inches in Highlands in 1957
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 22nd is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 192 days remain until the end of the year. On this day the Summer solstice may occur in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Winter solstice may occur 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)
217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
• [VIDEO: History of Battle - The Battle of Raphia]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Ptolemy IV Philopator]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Antiochus III the Great]
168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Pydna]
• [Wikipedia: Third Macedonian War]
• [Kings and Generals: Battle of Pydna]
431 - Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
• [Wikipedia: Council of Ephesus]
813 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Versinikia]
910 – The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
1527 – Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta.
1533 - Ferdinand of Austria and Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent sign peace treaty
1535 - Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
• [Luminarium: The Death of Bishop Fisher]
• [Wikipedia Bio: John Fisher]
1559 - Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted
1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Sisak]
1611 - Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again
• [What Happened To Henry Hudson?]
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. (Vatican only admits it was wrong on Oct 31, 1992!)
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [And Yet It Moves: Galileo Vindicated (Intro Astronomy module 2, lecture 6)]
1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
• [VIDEO: The Royal Greenwich Observatory]
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Official Website]
1679 - Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scots
• [Wikipedia article]
1772 - Somerset v Stewart court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encouraging the abolitionist movement
• [Wikipedia article]
1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• [VIDEO: The Quebec Act]
• [Wikipedia: Quebec Act]
1775 - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
• [History.com article]
1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
1799 - Britain and Russia decide to invade Batavian Republic
• [Wikipedia: Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland]
• [Wikipedia: War of the Second Coalition]
1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
• [Wikipedia: Chesapeake–Leopard affair]
• [Chesapeake Leopard Affair Explained, Embargo Act 1807]
1813 - War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Beaver Dams]
1815- 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
• [Abdication of Napoleon, 1815]
1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)]
• [Wikipedia Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ridge]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Major Ridge]
• [Wikipedia: Treaty of New Echota]
• [Wikipedia: Trail of Tears]
1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for President
• [Wikipedia: Barnburners and Hunkers]
• [Wikipedia Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren]
1848 - Beginning of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers
• [Wikipedia: June Days uprising]
• [Revolutions of 1848: Crash Course European History #26]
1865 - American Civil War: The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
• [Wikipedia: CSS Shenandoah]
• [Last shots of the American Civil War and the CSS Shenandoah. Updated episode.]
1870 – The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
• [Library of Congress: The Creation of the Department of Justice]
1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• [British Battleship Sinks British Battleship Without Firing a Shot!]
• [Wikipedia: HMS Camperdown (1885)]
• [Wikipedia: HMS Victoria (1887)]
• [Wikipedia: George Tryon]
1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
1898 – Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26 km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
1910 - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1911 – Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
• [Wikipedia: Second Battle of Tijuana]
1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• [The Deadliest Circus Train Wreck in American History]
• [Circus performers killed in Hammond train crash remembered 100 years later]
• [Wikipedia: Hammond Circus Train Wreck]
1934 - John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One
1939 - Princess and future Queen Elizabeth meets future husband Prince Philip of Greece (Midshipman Mountbatten, RN)
1940 – World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.
• [Wikipedia: Armistice of 22 June 1940]
• [Wikipedia: German military administration in occupied France during World War II]
• [Silent Newsreel]
1940 - World War II: About 10,000 Afrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of South Africa's involvement in WWII
• [South African History Online Article]
1940 - 1st Dairy Queen restaurant opened, in Joliet, Illinois
1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, the largest military operation in history.
• [Wikipedia: Operation Barbarossa]
• [096a - Operation Barbarossa - Biggest Land Invasion in History - WW2 - June 22 1941]
• [096b - Operation Barbarossa - End of the Nazi-Soviet Alliance - WW2 - June 27 1941]
• [Soviet Storm. WW2 in the East - Operation Barbarossa. Episode 1]
• [Battlefied S2/E3 - The Battle for Russia]
• [Winds of War - Operation Barbarossa]
1942 – World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.
1942 – The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
• [HistoryPod Video]
1944 – World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
• [Wikipedia: Operation Bagration]
• [Germany's Worst Defeat: Operation Bagration | Animated History]
• [Soviet Storm. WW2 in the East - Operation Bagration. Episode 11]
1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
• [Wikipedia: G.I. Bill]
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
1948 – The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.
1948 – King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.
1962 – Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, killing 112 people.
1965 – The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed.
1966 – Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• [The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969]
• [VIDEO: Cuyahoga River]
1970 - President Richard Nixon signs extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that requires voting age at 18 in all federal, state, and local elections
1975 - Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian who tries to stop them is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion to let the train pass safely)
1978 – Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
1984 – Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
1986 – The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup.
• [Maradona 'Hand of God' Goal 1986 World Cup]
• [Maradona’s 'Hand of God' Was More Than Just A Goal…]
• [Wikipedia article]
1990 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
• [ABC News Story]
• [Wikipedia: Checkpoint Charlie]
• [Checkpoint Charlie - Gate to Communism - U.S. Army in Cold War Berlin Video]
2000 – Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
• [Wikipedia: Wuhan Airlines Flight 343]
2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
2009 – A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.
• [NTSB video documenting Washington DC Metro crash]
• [Wikipedia: June 2009 Washington Metro train collision]
• [USA TODAY: D.C. train crash raw footage]
2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
2012 – A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
2015 – The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured.
2018 - President Trump spokesperson Sarah Sanders is asked to leave Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virginia over her support of Trump's policies, igniting debate
• [Red Hen controversy impacts Lexington tourism]
2019 - Russian volcano Raikoke erupts from 700m-wide-crater, seen from International Space Station. Turns sunsets purple across the Northern Hemisphere all summer.
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• [RAIKOKE VOLCANIC Eruption seen from Space - Himawari 8 & the ISS]
• [NASA: Earth Observatory]
2020 - New York City, once the epicentre of the pandemic in America, begins stage 2 of re-opening, allowing outdoor dinning and some in-store shopping
2020 - US government data shows African Americans four times more likely than whites to be hospitalized for COVID-19 highlighting racial disparities for the pandemic
2020 - Brazil becomes second country to pass 50,000 deaths (officially) with states of Amazonas, Pará, Ceará, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro most effected.
• [LINKTEXT]
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Published at 4:00am on Tuesday, June 22, 2021
NC Dept of Justice Releases May 2021 Highlights [LINK]
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a slight chance of showers between noon and 2pm. Patchy fog before 10am. 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 a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a slight chance of showers between noon and 2pm. Patchy fog before 11am. Highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the east 3 to 5 mph.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
Otto area
Today
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog before 10am. High in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night
Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Nantahala area
Today
Showers, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 10am. Highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 8 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night
Patchy fog between 3am and 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Calm winds.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the southeast.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
HAZARDS
Isolated thunderstorms remain possible over the area through the early morning hours. The main threats will be from locally heavy rainfall and occasional cloud to ground lightning.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Tue Jun 22 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center has issued the last advisory on the remnants of Claudette, located a couple of hundred miles southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1. A tropical wave located about 650 miles east-southeast of the Windward Islands is producing disorganized showers and a few thunderstorms. Some additional development of this disturbance will be possible during the next couple of days before upper-level winds become less conducive for further organization by Thursday. The system is expected to move westward to west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 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 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 (5.0 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (4.1 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on June 21st
Highest Temperature 96°F in Franklin in 1964
Lowest Temperature 40°F in Highlands in 1992
Greatest Rainfall 3.65 inches in Highlands in 1957
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 22nd is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 192 days remain until the end of the year. On this day the Summer solstice may occur in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Winter solstice may occur 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)
217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
• [VIDEO: History of Battle - The Battle of Raphia]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Ptolemy IV Philopator]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Antiochus III the Great]
168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Pydna]
• [Wikipedia: Third Macedonian War]
• [Kings and Generals: Battle of Pydna]
431 - Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
• [Wikipedia: Council of Ephesus]
813 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Versinikia]
910 – The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
1527 – Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta.
1533 - Ferdinand of Austria and Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent sign peace treaty
1535 - Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
• [Luminarium: The Death of Bishop Fisher]
• [Wikipedia Bio: John Fisher]
1559 - Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted
1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Sisak]
1611 - Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again
• [What Happened To Henry Hudson?]
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. (Vatican only admits it was wrong on Oct 31, 1992!)
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [And Yet It Moves: Galileo Vindicated (Intro Astronomy module 2, lecture 6)]
1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
• [VIDEO: The Royal Greenwich Observatory]
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Official Website]
1679 - Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scots
• [Wikipedia article]
1772 - Somerset v Stewart court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encouraging the abolitionist movement
• [Wikipedia article]
1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• [VIDEO: The Quebec Act]
• [Wikipedia: Quebec Act]
1775 - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
• [History.com article]
1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
1799 - Britain and Russia decide to invade Batavian Republic
• [Wikipedia: Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland]
• [Wikipedia: War of the Second Coalition]
1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
• [Wikipedia: Chesapeake–Leopard affair]
• [Chesapeake Leopard Affair Explained, Embargo Act 1807]
1813 - War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Beaver Dams]
1815- 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
• [Abdication of Napoleon, 1815]
1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)]
• [Wikipedia Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ridge]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Major Ridge]
• [Wikipedia: Treaty of New Echota]
• [Wikipedia: Trail of Tears]
1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for President
• [Wikipedia: Barnburners and Hunkers]
• [Wikipedia Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren]
1848 - Beginning of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers
• [Wikipedia: June Days uprising]
• [Revolutions of 1848: Crash Course European History #26]
1865 - American Civil War: The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
• [Wikipedia: CSS Shenandoah]
• [Last shots of the American Civil War and the CSS Shenandoah. Updated episode.]
1870 – The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
• [Library of Congress: The Creation of the Department of Justice]
1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• [British Battleship Sinks British Battleship Without Firing a Shot!]
• [Wikipedia: HMS Camperdown (1885)]
• [Wikipedia: HMS Victoria (1887)]
• [Wikipedia: George Tryon]
1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
1898 – Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26 km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
1910 - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1911 – Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
• [Wikipedia: Second Battle of Tijuana]
1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• [The Deadliest Circus Train Wreck in American History]
• [Circus performers killed in Hammond train crash remembered 100 years later]
• [Wikipedia: Hammond Circus Train Wreck]
1934 - John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One
1939 - Princess and future Queen Elizabeth meets future husband Prince Philip of Greece (Midshipman Mountbatten, RN)
1940 – World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.
• [Wikipedia: Armistice of 22 June 1940]
• [Wikipedia: German military administration in occupied France during World War II]
• [Silent Newsreel]
1940 - World War II: About 10,000 Afrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of South Africa's involvement in WWII
• [South African History Online Article]
1940 - 1st Dairy Queen restaurant opened, in Joliet, Illinois
1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, the largest military operation in history.
• [Wikipedia: Operation Barbarossa]
• [096a - Operation Barbarossa - Biggest Land Invasion in History - WW2 - June 22 1941]
• [096b - Operation Barbarossa - End of the Nazi-Soviet Alliance - WW2 - June 27 1941]
• [Soviet Storm. WW2 in the East - Operation Barbarossa. Episode 1]
• [Battlefied S2/E3 - The Battle for Russia]
• [Winds of War - Operation Barbarossa]
1942 – World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.
1942 – The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
• [HistoryPod Video]
1944 – World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
• [Wikipedia: Operation Bagration]
• [Germany's Worst Defeat: Operation Bagration | Animated History]
• [Soviet Storm. WW2 in the East - Operation Bagration. Episode 11]
1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
• [Wikipedia: G.I. Bill]
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
1948 – The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.
1948 – King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.
1962 – Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, killing 112 people.
1965 – The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed.
1966 – Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• [The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969]
• [VIDEO: Cuyahoga River]
1970 - President Richard Nixon signs extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that requires voting age at 18 in all federal, state, and local elections
1975 - Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian who tries to stop them is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion to let the train pass safely)
1978 – Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
1984 – Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
1986 – The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup.
• [Maradona 'Hand of God' Goal 1986 World Cup]
• [Maradona’s 'Hand of God' Was More Than Just A Goal…]
• [Wikipedia article]
1990 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
• [ABC News Story]
• [Wikipedia: Checkpoint Charlie]
• [Checkpoint Charlie - Gate to Communism - U.S. Army in Cold War Berlin Video]
2000 – Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
• [Wikipedia: Wuhan Airlines Flight 343]
2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
2009 – A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.
• [NTSB video documenting Washington DC Metro crash]
• [Wikipedia: June 2009 Washington Metro train collision]
• [USA TODAY: D.C. train crash raw footage]
2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
2012 – A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
2015 – The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured.
2018 - President Trump spokesperson Sarah Sanders is asked to leave Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virginia over her support of Trump's policies, igniting debate
• [Red Hen controversy impacts Lexington tourism]
2019 - Russian volcano Raikoke erupts from 700m-wide-crater, seen from International Space Station. Turns sunsets purple across the Northern Hemisphere all summer.
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• [RAIKOKE VOLCANIC Eruption seen from Space - Himawari 8 & the ISS]
• [NASA: Earth Observatory]
2020 - New York City, once the epicentre of the pandemic in America, begins stage 2 of re-opening, allowing outdoor dinning and some in-store shopping
2020 - US government data shows African Americans four times more likely than whites to be hospitalized for COVID-19 highlighting racial disparities for the pandemic
2020 - Brazil becomes second country to pass 50,000 deaths (officially) with states of Amazonas, Pará, Ceará, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro most effected.
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