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Thursday, June 6, 2024

News and Weather Briefing for Thursday, June 06, 2024



Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.

GENERAL OUTLOOK

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop this afternoon and linger into the evening. Dry Canadian air will mix across the area Friday and persist into the weekend. A chance of thunderstorms returns to the region Sunday, before deeply dry air builds back in Monday though Tuesday.


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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Saturday Night





Franklin Area

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the midafter. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Calm winds.

Friday

Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Friday Night

Clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.

Saturday

Mostly sunny, with highs near 80.

Saturday Night

A 30 percent chance of rain after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.


Highlands Plateau

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 2pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. 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 before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday

Sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Friday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday

Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s.

Saturday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 3pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 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

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Mostly clear, with lows around 60. Light winds out of the northwest. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday

Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 8 mph.

Friday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph.

Saturday

Sunny, with highs near 80.

Saturday Night

Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s.


Nantahala Area



Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday

Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Friday Night

Clear, with lows around 50. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.

Saturday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers after 3am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.




Hazards



Scattered thunderstorms will develop across the area today. Several of these storms will be capable of producing damaging winds. Small hail and heavy rainfall will also be possible.




Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium range (1.8 out of 12) today with Oak, Poplar, and Grasses being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (4.6 out of 12.0).



Record Weather Events for June 6th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 93°F in Franklin in 1985
Lowest Temperature 37°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1946
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.50 inches in Highlands in 1916 (also a state record for the date)
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 June Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 99°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 6th in North Carolina

Highest Temperature 103°F in Albemarle, Stanly County in 1943
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1954
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.50 inches in Highlands, Macon County in 1916
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)

Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of June Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 107°F in Carthage, Moore County on 06-23-1981
Lowest Temperature 23°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)






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)

June 2024 Schedule

6/8/24—Chuck Dorling and Sonia Brooks—Sonia is more about keeping the old folk songs and Chuck’s about several styles including the blues. Their collaboration is appreciated for sure! They promise a good time for us all.

6/15/24—Bloodroot--We are talking Appalachian at it’s best!….You’ll hear songs we heard around here from our parents and grandparents as kids. They have a great sound as they weave harmonies and instrumentation! Zip Robertson, Cricket Woodward, Paul Davis and Judy Kirkland. Don’t miss ‘em.

For other Music and News follow us on Facebook at Friends of the Greenway, Inc. and Instagram at friends_of_the_greenway_inc. To find out more about the Greenway and our organization, our website is: littletennessee.org.

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

Containership Throttle Jammed Open Leaving Port of Charleston | Ravenel Bridge Closed | What's Going on With Shipping?



Washington Today (6-5-24): Senate votes not to advance bill to make contraception a guaranteed right | C-SPAN



Global National: June 5, 2024 | What does Bank of Canada's interest rate cut mean for homeowners?



ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - June 5, 2024


"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | June 5, 2024


NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - June 5, 2024


PBS NewsHour full episode, (June 5, 2024)



---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---

Unexpected Discoveries About Neptune and Uranus Explain Several Anomalies I Antov Petrov



• The Sky This Week from May 31 to June 7: A Jupiter-Mercury conjunction Moon [Astronomy Magazine]

• This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 31 – June 9 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]

The Level1 Show June 5th 2024: Junk In The PCI Slot | Level1 Techs






On This Day

June 6 is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 208 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)





640 - Arab Muslim army sent by Caliph Omar begins siege of Heliopolis, city succumbs mid to late July, paving way for Muslim conquest of Byzantine Egypt

[Kings and Generals: Muslim Conquest of Egypt 640]

913 – Constantine VII, the 8-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed by Constantine's uncle Alexander III on his deathbed.

1002 - German King Henry II the Saint crowned 1242 - 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris

[section of wikipedia article on book burnings]

1328 - Franciscan theologian William of Ockham [Occam] excommunicated by Pope John XXII

[Wikipedia article on Occam's life]
[Encyclopedia Britannica article]

1391 - Inhabitants of Seville, Spain, massacre 5,000 Jews

[Chabad.org article]

1505 – The M8.2–8.8 Lo Mustang earthquake affects Tibet and Nepal, killing about 30 percent of the population in the area and causing severe damage in Kathmandu and parts of the Indo-Gangetic plain.

[Wikipedia article]
1513 – Battle of Novara. In the Italian Wars, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing them to abandon Milan; Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.

[Pike and Shot Channel]
[Wikipedia article]

1523 – Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day.

[Wikipedia article]

1536 - Mexico begins its inquisition

[Wikipedia article]

1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism

[Wikipedia article]
[Queen Christina of Sweden]

1665 - Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese armies beat Spain
1673 - France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum

[Wikipedia article]

1716 - French transport the 1st African slaves to Louisiana

[64 Parishes]
[Wikipedia article]

1744 - France and Prussia sign peace treaty
1752 - 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
1762 – In the Seven Years' War, British forces begin the Siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city.

[Wikipedia article]

1795 - Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured

[Wikipedia article]

1801 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Badajoz

[Wikipedia article]

1813 – The Battle of Stoney Creek, considered a critical turning point in the War of 1812. A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.

[Wikipedia article]
["The War of 1812, Battle of Stoney Creek", as described from Burlington Heights and the Battlefield]
[Song: Stoney Creek]
[Song: Battle of Stoney Creek]

1816 - 10" of snowfall in New England, part of a "year without a summer" which followed the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia

[Wikipedia article on eruption]
[Geographics: The Year Without a Summer]
[1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora]
[The Year Without a Summer Season]

1822 – Alexis St Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.

[Video: The Curious Case of Alexis St Martin (June 6, 1822) ]

1832 – The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.

[Wikipedia article]

1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
[YMCA article]

1859 – Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales. The date is still celebrated as Queensland Day.

[Wikipedia article]
[2021 Queensland Day - Share your Queensland story today (Extended)]
[Queensland Day 2021 - Gold Coast, Aus]

1862 – American Civil War: The First Battle of Memphis, a naval engagement fought on the Mississippi results in the capture of Memphis, Tennessee by Union forces from the Confederates.

[Wikipedia article]
[VIDEO: First Battle of Memphis]

1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.

[Wikipedia article]

1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.

[Wikipedia article]
[Seattle Municipal Archives]
[University of Washington Digital Collection]

1892 – The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.

[Wikipedia article]
[Chicago L.org website]

1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.

[Wikipedia article]
[IBEW Local 428 video]
1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

[GeologyHub Video]
[National Park Service Video]
[Wikipedia article]

1916 - The death of Yuan Shikai, ruler of much of China since 1912, causes the central government to virtually collapse in the face of warlords, including Sun Yat-sen

[Wikipedia article]
[History of China: Birth of the Warlord Era]

1918 – Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I: the U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry (the losses are exceeded at the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943).

[The Great War Video Series: Week 202]
[NRApubs video]
[MCU Belleau Wood Lecture Series (Lecture 1) / The Rise of the Modern Marine Corps in WW I]
[Wikipedia article]

1925 - Walter Chrysler founds automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation

[Walter Chrysler wikipedia article]

1933 – The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.

[ThoughtCo article]
[Lost Americana - The Drive In Theater (Full Version)]

1934 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

[Edspira video]
[Text of Act]

1942 – The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū—are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann are also sunk.

[Victory At Sea - Episode 04 ~ Midway Is East]
[Internet Archive: John Ford's The Battle of Midway]
[Battlefield: The Battle of Midway]
[Battle 360: Battle of Midway Leads to WWII Victory (S1, E2) | Full Episode]
[Office of Naval Intelligence: Japanese Story of Midway]
[Sunwest Monograms article]

1944 – Commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on four invasion beaches and are pushing inland.

[75th Anniversary article from Macon Media]
[Complete Radio Broadcast Day]
[Wikipedia article]
[D-Day in Color]

1964 – Rocket experiments at Cuxhaven are banned by the German authorities.

1966 - Civil rights activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi

1966 - Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" 

1967 - Israeli troops occupy Gaza during second day of the Six-Day War

1968 - Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night

1971 – Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June.

1971 - Air West flight 706 collides with a US Marine Corps F-4B Phantom jet over Los Angeles killing all 49 aboard the DC-6 and the pilot of the F-4B

1972 - Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)

1975 – British referendum results in continued membership of the European Economic Community, with 67% of votes in favour.

1981 - A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river, killing 268 officially with another 300 or more missing

1982 – The Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

1983 - Li Xiannian becomes President of the People's Republic of China and Deng Xiaoping the supreme commander

1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.

1985 - Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

1993 – Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia.

1999 - Largest jailbreak in Brazilian history at the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.

2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

2005 - The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.

2012 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs - last transit of 21st century

2018 - Convicted drug trafficker, Alice Johnson, granted clemency by US President Donald Trump after Kim Kardashian highlights case

2018 - At least 46 Ethiopian migrants drown after their boat capcizes of fthe coast of Yemen

2019 - German serial killer nurse Niels Hoegel jailed for a second life sentence for the murder of 85 more people (previously convicted for six). Germany's worst post-war serial killer.

2019 - New York City’s police commissioner James O’Neill apologizes for his department's actions during the 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn that resulted in the Stonewall Riots of June 28 – July 3, 1969.

[History Channel: How the Stonewall Riots Sparked a Movement]
[Smithsonian Channel: The Day the Stonewall Riots Shook America]
[Wikipedia article on the riots]








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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, June 06, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins


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