Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Rain showers are expected today ahead of a cold front, with the potential for embedded thunderstorms. Rain chances will taper off by Saturday morning, but may return Sunday. Daytime temperatures will be warm and spring-like through the weekend. Below normal temperatures return early next week before above normal temperatures return mid-week. Drier conditions are expected much of next week thanks to high pressure.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms before 1pm, then a chance of showers. Patchy fog between 9am and noon. Highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of showers before 2am, then a slight chance of rain. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of rain by midnight is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Sunday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around freezing.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Showers and thunderstorms before 4pm, then a slight chance of rain after 5pm. Highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the west 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A slight chance of rain before 7pm, then a chance of showers between 7pm and 11pm, then a chance of rain after 11pm. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 10am. Partly sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 35.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Showers and thunderstorms before 1pm, then a chance of showers. Patchy fog between 10am and 1pm. Highs in the upper 60s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of showers before 2am, then a slight chance of rain. Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Showers and thunderstorms before noon, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm, then a chance of showers after 1pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 1pm. Highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 2am. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
A slight chance of showers between 11am and 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 30s.
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Hazards
Numerous showers are expected this morning and afternoon, along with embedded scattered thunderstorms. A few of the thunderstorms may become strong to severe. The main potential impacts are brief damaging wind gusts and cloud-to-ground lightning.
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Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (8.1 out of 12) today with Maple, Juniper, and Oak being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (9.8 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for March 15th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1967
Lowest Temperature -5°F in Franklin in 1993
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.01 inches in Highlands in 1912
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 1.0 inches in Highlands in 1960
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
Greatest Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-13-1993
Record Weather Events for March 15th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 89°F in Albemarle, Stanly County in 1967
Lowest Temperature -9°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1993 /> Greatest Rainfall 6.00 inches in Tryon, Polk County in 1923
Greatest Snowfall 8.0 inches in Mount Holly, Gaston County in 1912
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
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
March 2024 Schedule
3-16-24---Barry Roma--Our Franklin Crooner!...bringing you Classic Love Songs from Johnny Mathis, Orbison, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & more.
3-23-24---No Live Music inside. WHT (Women's History Trail) Statue dedication across the street. Frog Quarters will be open our Regular Hours for gifts and to serve Coffee & Treats.
Frog Quarters is open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!
WHT Sculpture Community Celebration
11 am at Women's History Park (592 E. Main Street)
See https://thunderpigblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/womens-history-trail-sculpture.html for more details.
Mountain Findings
432 Spruce Street (physical)
Highlands, North Carolina 28741
Web: MountainFindings.org
Mountain Findings (a thrift store) is open every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 2023.
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On This Day
March 15th is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 291 days remain until the end of the year. In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
493 – Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.
856 – Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility.
897 – Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya enters Sa'dah and founds the Zaydi Imamate of Yemen.
933 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects.
1672 – King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, granting limited religious freedom to all Christians.
1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the reform party.
1874 – France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
1877 – First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
1888 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
1907 – The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held.
1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere begins.
1921 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
1927 – The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
1933 – Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
1939 – Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.
1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
1941 – Philippine Airlines enters service, making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov: The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
1951 – Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
1961 – At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1974 – Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, catches fire following a landing gear collapse at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran.
1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
1986 – Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
1991 – Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
2008 – Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
2019 – Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings.
2019 – Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
2019 – Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, March 15, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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