Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Strong high pressure and relatively dry easterly winds should keep the weather quiet and humidity on the low side for today. More humid subtropical air will return Saturday and remain into early next week, resulting in more typical summertime shower and thunderstorm activity, as heat builds over the region. and cause a heat wave to build across the region through early next week.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Sunny, with highs near 90. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 90.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers before 9pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Sunday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Chance of rain is 30%.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Light and variable winds.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s.
Sunday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Increasing clouds, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds.
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Sunday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Sunday Night
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3am. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 30%.
Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (3.9 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain 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 21st
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 93°F in Franklin in 1953
Lowest Temperature 42°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1985
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.72 inches in Highlands 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 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 21st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 106°F in Monroe, Union County in 1933
Lowest Temperature 34°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1940
Greatest One-Day Rain 5.10 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1961
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
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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.
News Briefing
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ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - June 20, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | June 20, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - June 20, 2024
PBS NewsHour full episode, (June 20, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Bizarre Black Holes Made Out of Light Proven To Be Impossible (Kugelblitz) I Antov Petrov Godier
• The Sky This Week from June 14 to 21: Say hello to summer skies [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 14 – 23 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show June 21st 2024: Birth Más | Level1 Techs
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HTC. Back Again. HTC. Tell A Friend. - Android Faithful #49 | Daily Tech News Show
On This Day
June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 193 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)
68 - Roman General Vespasian conquers Jericho during the Great Jewish Revolt
• [Ancient Jewish History: The Great Revolt]
• [Wikipedia: First Jewish–Roman War]
• [The Great Jewish Revolt | The Jewish Story Explained | Unpacked]
254 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians, defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vézeronce]
533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
1128 - Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan and succeeding his uncle Temür Khan.
• [Wikipedia Bio: Külüg Khan]
• [Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong Of Yuan]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Temür Khan]
1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Landriano]
• [Wikipedia: War of the League of Cognac]
• [Italian Wars Video Playlist]
1529 - Queen Catherine Of England [Catherine of Aragon] speaks against her marriage's annulment at the Blackfriars Legatine Court
• [VIDEO: June 21 - Catherine of Aragon steals the show]
• [Audio Performance of Queen Katherine of Aragon and The Legatine Court]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Catherine of Aragon]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Henry VIII]
1547 - Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
• [Wikipedia: Fire of Moscow (1547)]
1572 - Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
1582 – Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
• [Wikipedia: Daimyo]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Oda Nobunaga]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Akechi Mitsuhide]
1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established at Jamestown
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of White Mountain]
• [Kings and Generals: Thirty Years' War - White Mountain]
• [LINKTEXT]
1667 - Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
• [Wikipedia: Second Anglo-Dutch War]
1672 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
• [Wikipedia: Franco-Dutch War]
1675 - Foundation stone for London's St. Paul’s Cathedral is laid
1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
• [Wikipedia Bio]
1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 – James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
• [Wikipedia Bio: James Otis Jr.]
• [Portraits in Revolution: James Otis, Jr.]
• [CMN 627 Lecture 1 James Otis, Writs of Assistance]
1788 – US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
• [Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution]
1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
• [Wikipedia: Flight to Varennes]
• [21st June 1791: Louis XVI's attempted escape from Paris in the Flight to Varennes]
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
• [Irish Rebellion of 1798 | 3 Minute History]
• [VIDEO: The Battle of Vinegar Hill]
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vinegar Hill]
1813 – Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Vitoria]
• [Epic History TV: Wellington's Triumph: Vitoria 1813 ]
• [The Dole Institute of Politics]
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
• [The Greek Revolution | How Did Greece Get Its Independence?]
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
• [Wikipedia: Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani]
1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
• [Wallachian Revolution of 1848]
• [VIDEO: Wallachian Revolution]
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road]
1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
• [A Brief History of: The Capture of Guam]
• [Wikipedia: Capture of Guam]
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
• [Why did the Qing declare War on "everyone"? - Boxer Rebellion]
• [Wikipedia: Boxer Rebellion]
• [The Boxer Rebellion l HISTORY OF CHINA]
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
• [Wikipedia: Guinn v. United States]
• [ntold Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: Voting Rights & the Grandfather Clause]
1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
• [Winnipeg General Strike]
• [The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike: 100 years later]
• [Wikipedia: Winnipeg general strike]
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
• [Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow]
• [HistoryPod Video]
• [Animation of the 1919 German Fleet Scuttle in Scapa Flow]
1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
• [Wikipedia: Cristero War]
• [1930s Mexico During the Cristero War]
• [Behind the scenes of "For Greater Glory: The True Story of the Cristiada"]
1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
• [The Alpine Front of World War 2 - The Italian Invasion of France 1940]
• [Italian invasion of France]
1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces; 33,000 Allied troops are taken prisoner.
• [Wikipedia: Axis capture of Tobruk]
• [Newsreel] (Italian language, no subtitles)
• [Tobruk: A second siege?]
• [orth African Campaign 1940 | Animated History]
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
• [Wikipedia: Bombardment of Fort Stevens]
• [Japanese Attack Oregon! (Bombardment of Fort Stevens)]
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Okinawa]
• [US NAVY: The Fleet That Came To Stay (1945)]
• [Battle of Okinawa | Animated History]
• [Battlefield S6/E4 - Destination Okinawa]
1948 - Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
• [CBS News Special Report]
• [NBC News Special Report]
• [Wikipedia: Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner]
1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
• [Penn Central Bankruptcy Sends Shock Waves Through Commercial Paper Market]
• [Wikipedia: Penn Central Bankruptcy]
• [From the Standard of the World to the Largest Bankruptcy: The Penn Central Story]
1973 – In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Miller v. California]
• [Miller v California (1973)]
• [Obscenity and Free Speech: The Miller Test]
1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
• [Wikipedia: Evita (musical)]
• [Spanish Language Musical]
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1989 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
• [Wikipedia: Texas v. Johnson]
• [SCOTUS Simplified: Texas v Johnson]
• [ABC News Report]
1993 - English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
• [University of Oxford: What is Fermat's Last Theorem?]
• [Fermat's Last Theorem - Numberphile]
• [Andrew Wiles talks to Hannah Fry]
• [Wikipedia: Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem]
2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• [SpaceShip One X-Prize Flight #1 Launch Mike Melvill]
2005 – Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
• [C-SPAN3 Coverage]
2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.
2012 – A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, June 21, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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