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Sunday, June 16, 2024

Weekend Weather Briefing for Sunday, June 16, 2024



Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.

GENERAL OUTLOOK

Strong high pressure will gradually build over the region through much of the week keeping temperatures above normal. There will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms today and Monday. Then drier conditions are expected to return Tuesday into Friday.


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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Tuesday Night





Franklin Area

Today

A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday

A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.

Tuesday

Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s.

Tuesday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60.


Highlands Plateau

Today

A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 6 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before midnight. Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Light winds out of the southeast. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Monday

A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 6 mph. 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. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60. Winds out of the east 3 to 5 mph.

Tuesday

Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.

Tuesday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s.


Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 11am. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. 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. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the southeast.

Tuesday

Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s.

Tuesday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s.


Nantahala Area



Today

A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 11am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Winds out of the south 3 to 6 mph. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Tonight

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the southeast. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Monday

A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before midmorning. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Monday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 62. East southeast wind around 5 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tuesday

Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Light winds out of the southeast increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.

Tuesday Night

Mostly cloudy, with lows around 60.




Hazards



Isolated to scattered thunderstorms will develop across the area this afternoon and diminish this evening. The main threats will be gusty winds, locally heavy rainfall and cloud-to-ground lightning.


Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (3.0 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.0 out of 12.0).



Record Weather Events for June 16th

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

Highest Temperature 91°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2018
Lowest Temperature 38°F in Highlands in 1917 (also a state record and the latest date for frost in Macon County since 1933
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.63 inches in Highlands in 1949 (also a state record)
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 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 16th in North Carolina

Highest Temperature 103°F in Carthage, Moore County in 1981
Lowest Temperature 33°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1933
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.63 inches in Lake Highlands, Macon County in 1949
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since 1872)

(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Gladys)

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

6/22/24—Bill Peterson and Charlie Simmons—Bill’s deep voice lends itself to his blues & other covers and his originals. Charlie is an award-winning finger-style picker on his covers and great originals. You’ll laugh and you’ll cry with this duo, but not at their musical expertise!

6/29/24—George James—With a collection of around 800 songs, George does covers of folk, country and oldies. Come with your requests to hear George. If he doesn’t have a song, chances are he knows another by your artist!

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.














On This Day

June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 198 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)





363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.
• [Julian’s Gamble in the Desert]
• [Wikipedia Bio]

632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).
• [VIDEO BIO]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [Wikipedia: Sasanian Empire]

1407 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán ThÆ°Æ¡ng of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies.
• [Ming–Hồ War]

1487 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Stoke Field]
• [Nottinghamshire County Council]
• [The FORGOTTEN Final Battle Of The Wars Of The Roses ]

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison, Scotland
• [On This Day in Tudor History]
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [Wikipedia: Babington Plot]

1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.

1673 - Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg
• [Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Vossem_(1673)]

1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date).
• [Siege of Louisbourg (1745)]
• [War of the Austrian Succession]
• [War of the Spanish Succession | Animated History]

1746 – War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
• [Wikipedia article]

1755 РFrench and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beaus̩jour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
• [LINK TEXT]
• [Parks Canada: The siege of 1755]

1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• [Wikipedia article on the siege]
• [The Great Siege of Gibraltar 1779-1783]
• [Why Does Britain Own Gibraltar? (Short Animated Documentary)]

1784 - Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes
• [No Orange Clothes Day]

1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later.
• [Conwallis's Retreat]

1811 – Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Bloody Point]

1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
• [The Battle of Ligny and Quatre Bras]

1819 – A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6 m high, 6 km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80 km, that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").
• [The Wire: The Significance of the 1819 Allah Bund Earthquake, 200 Years on]

1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
• [Wikipedia: Chartism]

1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
• [Wikipedia Bio]

1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [Speech Performed by a Lincoln Impersonator]
• [Matthew Pinsker: Understanding Lincoln: House Divided Speech (1858)]

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia
• [Wikipedia]
• [National Park Service: Lynchburg Campaign- June 14 - June 22, 1864]

1864 - American Civil War: Skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia

1871 – The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
• [Wikipedia]
• [Text of Legislation]

1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
• [Traveling Templars]

1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
• [Wikipedia article]
• [BBC Proms 2005 - Sullivan - HMS Pinafore (Proms premiere)]

1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [The disaster as told by Marie Gardiner]
• [The Victoria Hall Disaster | Fascinating Horror]

1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• [LaMarcus Adna Thompson's Scenic Railways at Coney Island]

1893 - RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
• [Wikipedia: Cracker Jack]
• [racker Jack and the prize inside - Life in America]

1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
• [Wikipedia: Republic of Hawaii]

1900 - In China, a fire is set by Boxers, virtually destroying the Western Quarter and spreading to engulf many Chinese landmarks
• [Wikipedia: Boxer Rebellion]

1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• [History.com Article]

1903 – Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
• [Wikipedia Bio]

1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• [Wikipedia Bio of Eugen Schauman]
• [Wikipedia Bio of Nikolay Bobrikov]
• [Music Video Tribute to Schauman]

1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
• [Bloomsday - James Joyce]

1907 - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dissolves the Second Duma (parliament) and issues an edict that will increase representation of propertied classes while reducing that of peasants, workers and national minorities

1908 - The Republican Party convenes in Chicago where President Theodore Roosevelt picks William Howard Taft as his successor
• [Wikipedia article]

1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
• [Wikipedia article]

1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn
• [Wisconsin Dell Events]

1922 РGeneral election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn F̩in party wins a large majority.
• [Wikipedia: 1922 Irish General Election]

1923 - Sun Yat Sen founds Chinese military academy
• [Wikipedia Bio]

1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
• [Wikipedia article]

1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.

1932 US President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Republican Convention
• [Wikipedia article]

1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.
• [Wikipedia article]
• [National Industrial Recovery Act: FDR’s Statement – 1933]
• [Rise and Fall of the National Industrial Recovery Act]

1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).

1940 – World War II: A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.

1944 – In a gross miscarriage of justice, George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century after being convicted in a two-hour trial for the rape and murder of two teenage white girls.
• [Wikipedia Bio]
• [George Stinney Jr. Was The Youngest American Ever Put To Death In The Electric Chair – Then His Conviction Was Overturned]
• [CNN Story]

1944 - Iceland adopts constitution
• [Wikipedia article]

1944 - World War II: King George VI visits General Montgomery's HQ in Normandy
• [Newsreel]
• [RADIO REPORT: ing George VI visits Normandy : 16 June 1944]

1944 - World War II: US bombs Kyushu Japan

1948 – Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.

1955 – In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.

1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.

1961 – While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• [Nureyev defects to the West]
• [Rudolf Nureyev's great leap to freedom]

1961 - Discoverer 25 launched
• [Wikipedia article]
• [NASA Mission Page]
• [LINK TEXT]

1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
• [Wikipedia: Vostok 6]
• [Wikipedia: Valentina Tereshkova]

1963 – In an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam, a Joint Communique was signed between President Ngo Dinh Diem and Buddhist leaders.

1963 - Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister

1972 – The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
• [Newscast: Churchill Falls Hydro]

1976 – Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
• [South Africa's June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising | Our History]
• [Wikipedia article]

1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

1977 - Leonid Brezhnev named Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• [Wikipedia Bio]

1981 – US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
• [President Reagan’s Remarks at an Award Presentation to Ambassador Kenneth Taylor on June 16, 1981]
• [Reflections on Iran | Ken Taylor | Talks at Google]
• [Ken Taylor: 'The right man in the wrong place at the right time']

1983 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
• [1983: Pilgrimage of hope – the Pope in communist Poland under martial law]
• [Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism]

1983 - General Secretary Yuri Andropov appointed President of the Soviet Union
• [Stories From Somewhere - Yuri Andropov]
• [Wikipedia Bio]

1987 - New York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
• [ABC7 News]
• [Wikipedia: 1984 New York City Subway shooting]

1989 – Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.

1997 – Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
• [Wikipedia: List of massacres during the Algerian Civil War]
• [Islamic Extremists Target Civilians As Algerian Conflict Intensifies]

1999 - Thabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
• [AP VIDEO]
• [Wikipedia Bio]

2000 – The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22 years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon.

2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
• [Wikipedia article]

2012 – China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
• [Wikipedia: Shenzhou 9]
• [Space.com article]

2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

2013 – A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
• [Youtube Videos]

2015 - TV personality and Real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for the Republican nomination for US President at Trump Towers
• [C-SPAN VIDEO]

2016 – Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public.
• [ABC News Story (ABC is owned by Disney)]
• [Walking Tour]
• [Wikipedia article]

2017 - US President Donald Trump reinstates Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by President Obama
• [Reuters Article]

2019 – Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.
• [Wikipedia: 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests]
• [Bloomberg Special Report: Hong Kong on Edge]

2020 - At least 20 Indian soldiers killed in 1st deadly clash on the Chinese Indian border in 45 years in the Galwan Valley, Himalayas

2020 - Support from Manchester United player Marcus Rashford and others forces UK Government to make U-turn on summer school meal vouchers







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Published at 6:00am on Sunday, June 16, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins


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