Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Seasonable temperatures are expected today and tomorrow as shower and thunderstorm activity increases ahead of an approaching cold front. Hot and humid conditions Sunday before the front, which will usher in drier and cooler conditions Monday and Tuesday. The summer heat returns Wednesday and beyond.
• Drought, dry conditions impacting 99 North Carolina counties [Macon Media]
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 7am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of rain is 50%.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog between midnight and 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Monday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 9am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 5 mph. Chance of rain is 50%.
Tonight
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before midnight. Patchy fog between midnight and 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds increasing to come out of the north around 5 mph after midnight.
Monday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the north around 5 mph becoming light and variable by noon. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 30%.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 60.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 2pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 86. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Light winds out of the east. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm in the midafternoon, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog between midnight and 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the north around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%.
Monday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
Tuesday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 60.
Hazards
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening. A few of these storms may become strong to severe. Any storm which becomes severe will be capable of producing damaging winds and cloud to ground lightning.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (2.1 out of 12) today with Grasses, Plantain, and Dock being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (4.1 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for June 30th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 99°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2012
Lowest Temperature 44°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1974
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.10 inches in Highlands in 1971
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of June Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 101°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-30-2012
Lowest Temperature 32°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 06-02-1966
Greatest Rainfall 7.63 inches in Highlands on 06-16-1949
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in Macon County)
Record Weather Events for June 30th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 2012
Lowest Temperature 36°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1923
Greatest One-Day Rain 12.41 inches in Laurinburg, Scotland County in 1962
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of June Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 106°F in Carthage, Moore County on 06-23-1981
Lowest Temperature 36°F in Jefferson, Ashe County on 06-17-1917
Greatest Rainfall 12.41 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County on 06-30-1962
Greatest Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded during June in the state)
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Music Lineup for Friends of the Greenway, Inc.
Frog Quarters Music Schedule (located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin)
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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.
On This Day
June 30th is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 184 days remain until the end of the year.
In common years it is always in ISO week 26.
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)
296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
• [Wikipedia: Pope Marcellinus]
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome
• [Wikipedia: Nepotianus]
• [Wikipedia: Magnentius]
763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Anchialus (763)]
1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland
1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Arbedo]
1520 - Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt against their rule under Hernán Cortés during "La Noche Triste" (the Night of Sadness). Many soldiers drown in the escape, and Aztec emperor Moctezuma II dies in the struggle
• [Wikipedia: La Noche Triste]
• [Kings and Generals: Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521) - Spanish-Aztec War ]
1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Noáin]
1548 - Augsburg Interim issued by Charles V becomes law - orders Lutherans to return to Catholic practices with some concessions
• [Wikipedia: Augsburg Interim]
1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery.
• [Wikipedia: Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559)]
• [This Is the Most Consequential Injury in Sports History]
• [Henry II of France]
1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory.
• [The Battle of Berestechko]
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Berestechko]
• [Khmelnytsky Uprising | 3 Minute History]
1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
• [Wikipedia: Invitation to William]
• [How a Dutchman became the King of England]
1700 - Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is July 12th, 1700)
• [The Gregorian Calendar - Ten Lost Days]
• [A Short History of the Modern Calendar]
• [Wikipedia: Adoption of the Gregorian calendar]
1758 – Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Domstadtl]
• [Seven Years' War | Animated History]
• [LINKTEXT]
1794 – Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
• [Wikipedia: Northwest Indian War]
• [Wikipedia: Fort Recovery]
• [Lecture: Northwest Indian Wars 1785-1795]
1805 – Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, adopted by the U.S. Congress on January 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory is organized.
1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Charles Blondin]
1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. It is dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce.
• [Wikipedia article about the debate]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Thomas Henry Huxley]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Samuel Wilberforce]
• [Oxford Debate on Evolution]
• [The Great Debate – Huxley and Wilberforce (Bad Faith #13)]
1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
• [Text of Yosemite Grant Act of 1864]
• [Almanac: Yosemite Valley Grant Act]
• [Wikipedia: Yosemite Valley]
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
• [Wikipedia: Assassination of James A. Garfield]
• [The Presidential Assassination Nobody Talks About] (language warning)
• [The Surprise Election and Political Assassination of President James A. Garfield (2003)]
1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• [Wikipedia: Homestead strike]
• [10 Days That Changed America Homestead Strike]
1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
• [On the electrodynamics of moving bodies; by A. Einstein.] (translated from German)
• [How Special Relativity Fixed Electromagnetism]
• [Special Relativity: Crash Course Physics #42]
In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'.
1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular)
• [Wikipedia: Pure Food and Drug Act]
• [Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - Meatgrinder - Extra History - #5]
• [The Jungle by Upton Sinclair] (free eBook at Project Gutenberg)
1908 – The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
• [Wikipedia: Tunguska Event]
• [Mystery of the Devastating Russian "Tunguska Event" Finally Solved (2013)]
• [Tunguska Event | 100 Wonders | Atlas Obscura]
1912 – The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
• [Wikipedia: Regina Cyclone]
• [Disasters of the Century | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Regina Tornado | Ian Michael Coulson]
1914 - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
• [Wikipedia Bio: Mahatma Gandhi]
1916 – World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of the Boar's Head]
• [The Day Sussex Died]
• [Drumhead service to remember the Battle of the Boar's Head (2016)]
1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
• [Wikipedia Bio: William Howard Taft]
• [Compilation Newsreel Footage ]
• [William Howard Taft and the Constitution] (National Constitution Center)
1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
• [US Dept of State: Dominican Republic, 1916-1924]
1925 - Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television)
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
• [Wikipedia: Night of the Long Knives]
• [Night of the Long Knives Documentary]
• [Ernst Röhm - Sturmabteilung & Night of the Long Knives Documentary]
1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
1936 - Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published
1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
1938 - Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
• [Wikipedia: Action Comics 1]
• [PDF Copy]
1943 - General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)
• [Wikipedia: Operation Cartwheel]
• [Documentary: The Men of Operation Cartwheel]
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
• [Newsreel: Fall Of Cherbourg (1944)]
• [Battle of Cherbourg, 22-29 June 1944]
1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
• [Wikipedia: Chevrolet Corvette (C1)]
• [1953 Chevrolet Corvette C1: Regular Car Reviews]
1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
• [Wikipedia: 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision]
• [The Crash that Changed the Way we Fly; 1956 Grand Canyon Mid-air]
1956 - Vladimir Lenin's politics testament (1923) published in Moscow
• [Wikipedia: Lenin's Testament]
• [Gutenberg Project: Lenin's Testament]
1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
• [Wikipedia: 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash]
1960 – Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
1963 – Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
1967 - Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
• [Military Times: Black Military History Month: Maj. Robert Lawrence, the first black astronaut]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.]
1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
• [Wikipedia: Solemni hac liturgia]
• [Online Copy] (Translated from Latin)
1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
• [Wikipedia: Soyuz 11]
• [The Vintage Space: Only Three People Have Died in Space]
• [Soyuz 11 - Death Of Three Astronauts]
1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
1974 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.
• [Wikipedia: Baltimore municipal strike of 1974]
1975 - Muhammad Ali retains his world heavyweight boxing crown by beating Englishman Joe Bugner by unanimous points decision in a re-match in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• [Wikipedia: Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Bugner]
• [Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Bugner (2nd meeting) - 1975(HD)]
1977 - Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
• [June 1977: Carter Cancels B-1 Bomber; Critics Accuse Him of ‘Unilateral Disarmament’]
• [WaPo: Carter Halts B-1 Bomber Production]
• [LINKTEXT]
1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
• [Big Picture: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) Nations]
• [Wikipedia: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization]
1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1994 – During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board.
1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China after the British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong, established by the Second Convention of Peking, expires
• [Wikipedia: Handover of Hong Kong]
• [Hong Kong Handover Sunset Farewell Ceremony & Parade]
• [Hong Kong handover news coverage - July 1997] (4 hours)
2005 – MTV Canada is rebranded as Razer
2007 – A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before.
2009 – Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.
2013 – Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.
• [ABC News: 19 Firefighters Dead in Yarnell Hill Wildfire]
• [WFSTAR Yarnell Hill Fire] (Accident investigation Video)
• [Wikipedia: Yarnell Hill Fire]
2013 – Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.
2014 - US Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provision of 'Obamacare' on religious grounds
2015 – A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
2019 – Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
• [NBC News: Trump meets Kim Jong Un, becomes first sitting U.S. president to step into North Korea]
• [Special Report: Trump meets North Korea's Kim Jong Un in the DMZ]
• [2019 Koreas–United States DMZ Summit]
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, June 30, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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