**note** A line of storms will passing through before daybreak. The main concern is with strong winds, large hail, and cloud-to-ground lightning.
Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Strong to severe thunderstorms early this morning with another round possible this afternoon with a cold front. Cooler and drier conditions return Tuesday through Saturday.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Franklin Area
Memorial Day Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2pm. Patchy fog before 11am. Highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light winds out of the northwest.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Highlands Plateau
Memorial Day
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 11am. Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday
Patchy fog between 7am and 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Memorial Day
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 11am. Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 8 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Nantahala Area
Memorial Day
Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 3pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog before noon. Highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph. new rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Light winds out of the northwest early in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50.
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Hazards
A chance of thunderstorms before daybreak. The main threats will be damaging winds, cloud-to-ground lightning and hail. An isolated tornado or two cannot be ruled out. Another round of afternoon showers and thunderstorms is possible on Monday with a few strong thunderstorms in the Western Carolina Mountains. Main threats will be strong gusty winds, cloud- to- ground lightning and hail.
• New preseason hurricane forecast is highest ever issued. Brace yourself, Florida [Miami Herald (via Yahoo News)]
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Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (1.0 out of 12) today with Grasses, Mulberry, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-high range (7.9 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for May 27th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 91°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2019
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Highlands in 1961
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.88 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1961
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began in 1871)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of May Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 92°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-20-1996
Lowest Temperature 23°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-02-1963
Greatest Rainfall 5.97 inches in Highlands on 05-30-2018
Greatest Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands on 05-07-1992
Record Weather Events for May 27th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 102°F in Monroe, Union County in 1916
Lowest Temperature 22°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County in 1961
Greatest One-Day Rain 6.65 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1981
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872) in 1979
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Gladys)
--> Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of May Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 107°F in Aurora, Beaufort Countyy on 05-26-2011
Lowest Temperature 14°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 05-09-2020
Greatest Rainfall 8.51 inches in Pisgah Forest, Transylvania County on 05-20-1942
Greatest Snowfall 15.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 05-07-1992
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Macon Calendar
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Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
May 2024 Schedule
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News Briefing
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On This Day
May 27 is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 218 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199 – John is crowned King of England.
1257 – Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.
1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
1679 - Habeas Corpus Act passes in England, strengthening a person's right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1876- Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia
1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history
1915 – HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.
1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1940 - World War II{ British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later. Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered in retaliation.
1950 – The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.
1958 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1984 – The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
1988 – Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.
1995 - Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia
1996 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
• [Yeltsin in Paris to sign NATO agreement]
• [NATO-Russia Founding Act Signing | White House]
• [NATO-Russia Founding Act | US Dept of State Archives]
1997 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo
2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2006 – The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
2017 – Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2018 – Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
2020 - America's COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 (Johns Hopkins figures) equal to number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan put together
2020 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Hong Kong no longer has autonomy from China, doesn't merit special trade relationship, in note to Congress
2020 - Locust swarms in western and central India worst since 1993 after spreading from Pakistan and Iran and due to extreme weather
2021 - French President Emmanuel Macron recognizes France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali, Rwanda
2021 - US President Joe Biden calls for a ceasefire in the Tigray conflict, north Ethiopia, citing killings and "widespread sexual violence" as a weapon of war
2021 - English playwright William Shakespeare reported to have died after receiving COVID-19 vaccine by Argentine news channel Chanal 26 (case of mistaken identity, the Bard died in 1616)
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Published at 5:00am on Monday, May 27, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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