Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will build into the region over the weekend and allows temperatures to warm slowly. Moisture and clouds increase early next week as a weak front stalls near the area. Another, more significant system approaches the region by the middle of the week.
PUBLIC MEETING - GRANT APPLICATION FOR WHITMIRE INCLUSIVE PLAY AREA
At their, April 1, 2024 meeting, the Franklin Town Council approved application for a NC Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF) Grant for up to $500,000. A public meeting will be held on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in the Town Hall Board Room to gain public input on this grant application.
The grant requires a one-to-one match of funding approved. The grant being submitted is for the Whitmire Inclusive Play Area and will include not only the play area with pour in place surface, but the necessary parking areas, restrooms and connecting sidewalks.
For more information, please contact Amie Owens, Town Manager at 828-524-2516 ext. 305 or via email aowens@franklinnc.com .
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 9 mph by midmorning.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Showers likely, mainly between 9am and 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers before 7pm, then a chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Chance of rain is 30%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph.
Tuesday
Showers likely, mainly between 9am and 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers before 8pm, then a chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Chance of rain is 30%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Calm winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Showers likely, mainly between 9am and 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 70%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers before 7pm, then a chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the south 3 to 6 mph.
Monday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 9am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the south earlu in the morning increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Showers likely, mainly between 9am and 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Chance of rain is 70%.
Tuesday Night
A chance of showers before 8pm, then a chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50. Chance of rain is 30%.
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Hazards
Areas of frost will be possible over the next two or three nights. Sensitive plants left outside could be damaged.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (10.9 out of 12) today with Oak, Juniper, and Birch being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (10.4 out of 10.6).
Record Weather Events for April 7th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 84°F in Franklin in 1967
Lowest Temperature 14°F in Highlands in 2007
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.00 inches in Highlands in 1895 (also a state record)
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.0 inches in Highlands in 1989
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of April Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 04-26-1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands on 04-01-1987
Greatest Rainfall 7.00 inches in Highlands on 04-07-1895 (also a state record)
Greatest Snowfall 9.5 inches in Franklin on 04-04-1987
Record Weather Events for April 7th in North Carolina
rdrd Highest Temperature 95°F in Roxboro, Person County in 2006
Lowest Temperature 2°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2007
Greatest Rainfall 7.00 inches in Highlands, Macon County in 1895
Greatest Snowfall 13.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2017
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of April Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 102°F in Carthage, Moore County on 04-29-1981
Lowest Temperature 1°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-08-2007
Greatest Rainfall 7.30 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 04-16-2011
Greatest Snowfall 19.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-11-2003
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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)
April 2024 Schedule
4-13-24—Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter Al Scortino takes the corner with his heartfelt and whimsical musical creations along with multi-insturmentalist, Greg “Squeezebox” Thomas. Welcome back, guys!
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!
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.
News Briefing
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, April 5, 2024
2024 Campaign Trail: Trump Back on the Stump & a Look at Colorado's U.S. House Races | C-SPAN
Ask the Chiefs! | Chief MAKOi and Steam Man Discuss Issues Leading to Dali Losing Power in Baltimore | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (4-4-24): President Biden to Israel PM: protect Gaza civilians or US policy changes | C-SPAN
Great American Eclipse | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
Global National: April 6, 2024 | Israel-Hamas to attend ceasefire talks in Cairo
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - April 06, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | April 06, 2024
The moon is literally about to steal the spotlight! | Nightly News: Kids Edition
PBS NewsHour full episode, (April 06, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
• The Sky This Week from April 5 to 12: A Great North American Eclipse [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 29 – April 7 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show April 5 2024: You Shall Not Hall Pass | Level1 Techs
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On This Day
April 7 is the 97th day of the year (98th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 268 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)
451 – Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
1141 – Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
1348 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV charters Prague University.
1449 – Felix V abdicates his claim to the papacy, ending the reign of the final Antipope.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245, at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
1767 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
1788 – Settlers establish Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory.
1795 – The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass.
1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
1831 – Pedro II becomes Emperor of Brazil.
1862 – American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
1926 – Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.[5]
1927 – AT&T transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
1933 – Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.
1939 – Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1943 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
1943 – The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.
1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
1946 – The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1954 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1956 – Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.
1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
1965 – Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C. against the termination of the Colville tribe.
1968 – Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
1971 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
1972 – Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.
1976 – Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party after being arrested for faking his own death.
1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1980 – During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
1982 – Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.
1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
1988 – Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.
1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
1990 – John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair.
1994 – Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
2001 – NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.
2003 – Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
2011 – The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.
2017 – A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.
2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
2018 – Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the “Car-Wash Operation”. Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, after being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
2018 – Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.
2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
2021 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, April 07, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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