Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Drier air will filter into our region this morning with a secondary cold front. Very windy conditions also will develop and continue into Saturday. Dry and warm weather returns for the weekend into the middle of next week.
The Macon County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday night for their regular April 2024 meeting. Video and supporting documents are posted at [Macon Media]
During a public hearing on a propsed sale of the building and land to a developer, members of the Sugarfork community spoke out against the sale and convinced them to give them a chance to retain the Old Pine Grove School. A non-profit will be formed and they will report back to the commissioners in 30 to 60 days.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area (Breezy conditions expected through Saturday Afternoon)
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Highlands Plateau (Breezy conditions expected through Saturday Afternoon)
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs near 55. Winds out of the northwest 20 to 35 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 20 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Saturday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
Otto and South Central Macon County (Breezy conditions expected through Saturday Afternoon)
Today
Sunny, with highs near 60. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Increasing clouds, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west 20 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday Night
Clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph decreasing and shifting to light winds out of the west after midnight.
Sunday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50.
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Hazards
Aside for winds that may occasionally gust to over 30 mph, hazardous weather is not expected today. Scattered power outages are expected through Saturday afternoon
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 medium-high range (11.4 out of 9.1).
Record Weather Events for April 12th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 87°F in Franklin in 2001
Lowest Temperature 22°F in Franklin in 1960
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.05 inches in Franklin in 1913 (also the state record)
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began)
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 12th in North Carolina
rdrd Highest Temperature 97°F in Tarboro, Edgecombe County in 1930
Lowest Temperature 15°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1989
Greatest Rainfall 5.28 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2013
Greatest Snowfall 17.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1988
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
---STATE AND LOCAL---
NC Gov. Roy Cooper talks $1.2 billion, 680-job expansion by Fujifilm Diosynth in Holly Springs | WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC_
• Cicadapocalypse: Will there be a double brood of cicadas in Western NC this year? [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Convicted felon now charged in Jessica Kirkland's death in Sylva [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• 'We will march': Sylva community members support Pride Parade [BPR]
• WCU enrollment deadline extended [Sylva Herald and Ruralite]
• Under the Dome: NC Supreme Court appears skeptical of challenge to McCrory backers[Raleigh News and Observer]
• Mark Robinson failed to file federal income taxes for 5 years, bankruptcy documents show [WTVD-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
---NATIONAL---
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses joint meeting of Congress | full video | CBS News
International News Headlines
Rebel groups take Myanmar border town: Hundreds of refugees escape to Thailand | Al Jazeera
U.S. bolsters military ties with Japan and Philippines amid Chinese provocations | PBS News Hour
How did billionaire Truong My Lan steal 3% of Vietnam's 2022 GDP? | DW News
• Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud [BBC News]
• US, Japan military alliance to get biggest revamp since 1951 [DW News]
• S. Korea, U.S. reaffirm plan for tabletop exercise on nuclear use by N. Korea [Yonhap News Agency]
• Mali bans political party activities as calls for elections grow [Africa News]
• 🔴 Liveblog: Israel says it will defend itself if Iran responds to attack on its consulate[France 24]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 11, 2024 [Institute for the Study of War]
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On This Day
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 263 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)
240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York.
1012 – Duke OldÅ™ich of Bohemia deposes and blinds his brother JaromÃr, who flees to Poland.
1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
1782 - Battle at Les Saintes: British fleet under Admiral George Rodney defeats the French fleet under Comte de Grasse off Dominica in the West Indies. Prevents a planned French and Spanish invasion of Jamaica.
1807 – The Froberg mutiny ends when the remaining mutineers blow up the magazine of Fort Ricasoli.
1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.[4]
1900 – One day after its enactment by the Congress, President William McKinley signs the Foraker Act into law, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
1910 – SMS ZrÃnyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
1927 – Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
1927 – Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
1934 – The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes President upon Roosevelt's death.
1945 – World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.
1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
1961 – Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
1980 – The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
1980 – Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to HercÃlio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
1980 – Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of hope Run in St. John's, NF
1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
1983 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
1990 – Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
2002 – Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo Chávez.
2002 – A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.
2007 – A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
2010 – Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.
2013 – Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.
2014 – The Great Fire of ValparaÃso ravages the Chilean city of ValparaÃso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.
2015 - Hillary Clinton announces she will run for the Democratic nominee for US President for the 2nd time
2016 - Breakthrough Starshot: Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, announce interstellar project to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
2020 - Pope Francis calls for the world to be united in the face of COVID-19 as he delivers his Easter message from an empty St Peter's Cathedral in Rome
2020 - Huge storm system produces more than 40 tornadoes in the US from Texas to South Carolina killing 32 people across six states
2021 - Worst frost conditions in half a century will affect 80% of French vineyards according to industry officials
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, April 12, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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