Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure remains over the area with warming temperatures this weekend. The work week starts dry with a cold front crossing the region by mid week, increasing shower and storm chances. Much cooler and drier air returns for the latter half of next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Highs in the mid 70s. Windy. Chance of rain is 80%.
Tuesday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain is 80%.
Highslands Plateau
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 70. Windy. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Lows in the mid 40s. Windy. Chance of rain is 80%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph in the morning shifting to come out of the west in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph.
Monday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
A chance of showers, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Highs in the mid 70s. Windy. Chance of rain is 80%.
Tuesday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Lows in the mid 40s. Windy. Chance of rain is 80%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph.
Tuesday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Highs near 70. Windy. Chance of rain is 80%.
Tuesday Night
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Lows around 40. Windy. Chance of rain is 80%.
Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (11.2 out of 12) today with Maple, Oak, and Elm being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (11.5 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 31st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 82°F in Franklin in 1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Franklin in 1964
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.37 inches in Highlands in 1976
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 0.3 inches in Highlands in 1966
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of March Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 87°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-29-2020
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on 03-07-1899
Greatest Rainfall 6.61 inches in Highlands on 03-26-2021 (also a state record)
Greatest Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-13-1993
Record Weather Events for March 31st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 93°F in Lumberton, Robeson County in 1907
Lowest Temperature 8°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1964
Greatest Rainfall 5.20 inches in Tarboro, Edgecombe County in 1895
Greatest Snowfall 11.0 inches in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1972
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of March Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 98°F in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 03-27-1921
Lowest Temperature -11°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 03-03-1980
Greatest Rainfall 10.10 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 03-04-1979
Greatest Snowfall 36.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 03-13-1993
Macon Calendar
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News Briefing
Global National: March 30, 2024 | Removal of collapsed bridge begins in Baltimore
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - March 30, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | March 30 2024
The moon is literally about to steal the spotlight! | Nightly News: Kids Edition
PBS NewsHour full episode, (March 30 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
• The Sky This Week from March 29 to April 5: Comet Pons-Brooks puts on a show [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 29 - April 7 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show March 29 2024: Bath and Body Burns | Level1 Techs
On This Day
March 31st this the 90th day of the year (91st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 275 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)
307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
1084 - Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan and fifty of his men came ashore to present-day Limasawa to participate in the first Catholic mass in the Philippines.
1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1761 – The 1761 Lisbon earthquake strikes off the Iberian Peninsula with an estimated magnitude of 8.5, six years after another quake destroyed the city.
1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1885 – The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1899 – Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
1901 – Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák premiéres at the National Opera House in Praque.
1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
1909 – Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
1913 – The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
1917 – According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions.
1918 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1920 - British parliament accepts Irish Home Rule law
1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
1931 – An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
1931 – A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1945 – World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 – Brazilian General Olímpio Mourão Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d'état.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1968 – American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1990 – Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 – Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1992 – The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow.
1995 – Selena is murdered by her fan club's president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas after accusations emerged of Saldívar embezzling money from Selena's fan club.
1995 – TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
1998 – Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
2018 – Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution.
2020 - British pensioner Robert Weighton becomes the world's oldest man at 112 years
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Published at 5:00am on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
Resources used to compile the information in this article include, but are not limited to rthe following websites or books: MaconMedia.com, youtube.com, weather.gov, airnow.gov, wikipedia.com, onthisday.com, ncdcr.gov, ncsu.edu, utah.edu, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/, wolfram.com, biorxiv.org, aps.org, nejm.org, plos.org, cell.com, researchsquare.com, cureus.com, spc.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, ncdenr.org, medrxiv.org, archive.org, ncpedia.org, nasa.gov, https://ww2days.com, nih.gov, carolinapublicpress.org, microbe.tv, smokymountainnews.com, psypost.org, blogspot.com, pollen.com, franklinnc.com, maconnc.org, spaceweather.com, solarham.com, loc.gov, ncleg.net, senate.gov, house.gov, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com, politico.com, realclearpolitics.com, ushmm.org, This Day in North Carolina History, World War II Day By Day, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, The Timetables of History, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World History and Book of Facts (multiple years), On This Day In History: Over 4,000 facts, The NASA Archives. 60 Years in Space, This Day in North Carolina History, The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, Spaceflight, 2nd Edition: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiousity, The Story of Civilization (11 volumes), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, American History, Volume 1: 1492-1877, American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, A Complete Chronolgy of the Second World War. Weather and Almanac data and information sources: Sources (except where otherwise credited): heavens-above.com, Ian Webster's Github, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, The National Weather Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, Penn State University Electronic Wall Map, The State Climate Office of North Carolina, Storm Prediction Center, U.S. Naval Observatory, University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Weather Prediction Center.
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