Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
High temperatures will peak today ahead of an approaching cold front which will bring shower and thunderstorm chances to mountains this afternoon. The cold front will track across the area tonight into Thursday before stalling south of the western Carolinas on Friday, keeping shower and thunderstorm chances around. Hot and increasingly humid conditions are expected Friday into the weekend ahead of another cold front. The front will track across the area Sunday night bringing slightly cooler temperatures early next week and keeping unsettled weather around.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Friday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 90s. Light winds out of the south.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Friday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 60s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a slight chance of showers after 3am. Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain is 20%.
Thursday
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the north around 5 mph early in the morning decreasing to light and variable by midmorning. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Light winds out of the northeast.
Friday
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph by midmorning. Chance of rain is 60%.
Friday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 7pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 7pm and 5am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain is 60%.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs near 91. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers after 2am. Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s. Calm winds.
Thursday
A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-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.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. 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.
Friday
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. 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.
Friday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 70.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Sunny, with highs in the mid 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Increasing clouds, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 20%.
Thursday
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Light and variable winds. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Friday
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Hazards
Isolated or widely scattered thunderstorms are expected over the mountains and foothills this afternoon and evening. Any of these storms will be capable of dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning.
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low-medium range (3.8 out of 12) today with Grasses and Plantain being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low-medium range (3.1 out of 12.0).
Record Weather Events for June 26th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 94°F in Franklin in 1954
Lowest Temperature 41°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1974
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.19 inches in Highlands in 1960
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 26th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 107°F in Morehead City, Carteret County in 1952
Lowest Temperature 30°F in Brevard, Transylvania County in 1907
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.11 inches in Belhaven, Beaufort County in 1945
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
6/29/24—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!
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Mountain Findings
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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
---NATIONAL---
Michael Phelps Opening Statement on Anti-Doping | C-SPAN
House hearing on anti-doping measures ahead of 2024 Olympics in Paris | AP News
Julian Assange walks out of court a free man after guilty plea | The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
• How a Texas Factory Is Emerging as a Key Ammo Supplier for the U.S., Ukraine [Wall Street Journal]
• Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, cuts plea deal to avoid US prison [Politico]
• Supreme Court takes up challenge to ban on gender-affirming care [SCOTUSblog]
• Federal judge puts kibosh on common tactic by clerks fighting access [Courthouse News Service]
• U.S. judges block parts of Biden’s student loan relief plan [CNBC]
International News Headlines
Chaos in Kenya as protesters storm parliament | CNN
Navigating The Never Normal Supply Chain - Project 44 velo(city) Seminar in Chicago - June 6, 2024 | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (6-25-24): Israel Def Minister Gallant meets at Pentagon with Def Secretary Austin | C-SPAN
Global National: June 25, 2024 | Liberals lose stranglehold Toronto riding to Tories after 31 years
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - June 25, 2024
"CBS Evening News" Full Broadcast | June 25, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - June 25, 2024
PBS NewsHour full episode, (June 25, 2024)
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History News Roundup---
Evidence That Pluto and Triton Are Actually Long Lost Siblings | Antov Petrov
• The Sky This Week from June 21 to 28: Embrace June’s Strawberry Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 21 – 30 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
The Level1 Show June 26th 2024: X Gonna Bill It To Ya | Level1 Techs
How Does Judge Lane Rule? - DTNS 4797 | Daily Tech News Show
• GOES-U Mission Overview [NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)]
Falcon Heavy launches GOES-U | SciNews
GOES-U deployment| SciNews
• Background Contamination of the Project Hephaistos Dyson Spheres Candidates [Cornell University]
---Science, Technology, Culture, and History Video Section---
String Theorists Have Calculated the Value of Pi | Sabine Hossenfelder
On This Day
June 26th is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 188 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)
4 AD – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
• [Wiki Bio: Augustus]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Tiberius]
• [Wikipedia: Principate]
221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
• [Wikipedia: Elagabalus]
• [Severus Alexander]
363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire.
• [Killing Julian: the Death of an Emperor and the Religious History of the Later Roman Empire] (PDF, 171 pages)
• [Wikipedia: Julian (emperor)]
• [Epimetheus: The Rise and Fall of the Sassanid Persian Empire]
• [Wikipedia: Sasanian Empire]
• [Julian: Rise of the Last Pagan Emperor of Rome]
684 – Pope Benedict II is chosen.
699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
• [Wikipedia: Shugendō]
• [Wikipedia Bio: En no Gyōja]
1243 – Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Köse Dağ]
1284 - According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away
• [Pied Piper of Hamelin]
• [Exodus or Exitus? What happened to the Children of Hamelin?]
1295 – Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
1483 – Richard III becomes King of England.
1522 – Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Rhodes (1522)]
• [Kings and Generals: Siege of Rhodes 1522 - Ottoman Wars]
• [Siege of Rhodes 1522] (Empires of the Sea: The Contest for the Center of the World By Roger Crowley)
1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1579 – Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1740 – A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
• [Wikipedia: Siege of Fort Mose]
• [Florida Frontiers TV - Episode 9 - Fort Mose]
• [The War of Jenkin's Ear and King George's War, 1739 - 1748]
1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Fleurus (1794)]
1830 – William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
1842 - Ellen G. White is baptized by John Hobart in Portland, Maine
• [Wikipedia Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_G._White]
• [The Writings of Ellen G White]
1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
• [Wikipedia: Treaty of Nanking]
• [HistoryPod Video About Treaty Signing and Background]
• [Wikipedia: First Opium War]
1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• [Henri Moissan: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1906]
1889 – Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
1906 – The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• [The Science Museum Website]
• [Science Museum, London]
• [Science Museum, London | Walkthrough Tour July 2019 | 4k]
1917 – World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
• [American Expeditionary Forces arriving in France, during World War I HD Stock Footage] (Silent Newsreel)
• [US Troops Enter WW1 | Timewatch | BBC Studios]
• [World War I: The American Legacy]
• [The Songs of World War I]
1918 – World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Belleau Wood]
• ["Over There! Part 3: Retreat, Hell! We Just Got Here!" U.S. Marines At Belleau Wood]
1924 – The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1934 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• [Wikipedia: Federal Credit Union Act]
• [MyCreditUnion.gov]
• [12 USC Ch. 14: FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONS]
1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• [Wikipedia: Focke-Wulf Fw 61]
• [Silent Newsreel Footage]
• [Focke Wulf Fw 61 - luftwaffe test pilot Hanna Reitsch]
1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• [Wikipedia Grumman F6F Hellcat]
• [Wings - Grumman F6F Hellcat]
• [LINKTEXT]
1944 – World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Osuchy]
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
• [Newsreel]
• [Wikipedia: Charter of the United Nations]
1948 – Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.
• [DoD: The Berlin Airlift: What It Was, Its Importance in the Cold War]
• [Harry S Truman Library: The Blockade of Berlin]
• [Assn for Diplomatic Studies and Training: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift of 1948]
1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• [Engineering and Technology Wiki: Wlliam Shockley]
• [Does the first transistor ever built still work?]
• [Documentary: Transistorized!]
1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
• [Wikipedia: Lavrentiy Beria]
1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• [Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter]
1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1963 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
• [John F. Kennedy - "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" Speech]
• [Wikipedia: Ich bin ein Berliner]
• [C-SPAN Reel America: President Kennedy in Berlin, 1963]
1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
• [HistoryPod Video ]
1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
• [American Indian Movement]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Leonard Peltier]
• [Tactical Wire: The Pine Ridge Shootout]
• [Wikipedia: Murder on a Reservation]
1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
• [Elvis Presley 1977 CBS last concert]
1978 – Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
1981 – Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish.
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
• [Yugoslavia War : Slovenia 21.6.1991]
• [Slovenian Ten-Day War: The Forgotten Balkan War]
• [News June 29, 1991 - Ten Day War in Yugoslavia/Slovenia]
• [Ten-Day War]
1993 - The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
• [Wikipedia: 1993 cruise missile strikes on Iraq]
• [Clinton Orders Missile Attack (1993)]
1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union]
• [Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union]
• [JUSTIA: Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997)]
2000 – The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
• [LINKTEXT]
• [Official Website]
• [The Human Genome Project: The 13-Year Quest to Chart the Mysteries of Human Genetics]
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• [Wikipedia: Lawrence v. Texas]
• [JUSTIA: Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003)]
• [Lawrence v. Texas Summary | quimbee.com]
2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
2008 – A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
• [Wikipedia: Waldo Canyon Fire]
• [NASA Earth Observatory: Waldo Canyon Fire Burn Scar]
• [PPLDTV In Our Own Backyard: Reflections on the Waldo Canyon Fire]
2013 – Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Defense of Marriage Act]
• [Wikipedia: United States v. Windsor]
• [JUSTIA: United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013)]
• [United States v. Windsor Case Brief Summary | Law Case Explained]
2015 – Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• [Wikipedia: Obergefell v. Hodges]
• [JUSTIA: Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ (2015)]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rWSvCNBZxY]
2016 - Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
• [Overview of the new Panama Canal expansion]
2018 - US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against mostly Muslim countries
• [Wikipedia: Trump v. Hawaii]
• [JUSTIA: Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. ___ (2018)]
• [Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban]
2018 - Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease
• [Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back]
• [WHO: Reaching the Hagahai in Papua New Guinea]
• [AFP: Papua New Guinea scrambles to vaccinate as polio returns]
• [Papua New Guinea: Polio Outbreak - Jun 2018]
2020 - New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan
• [New York Times]
• [Wikipedia: Russian bounty program]
• [Fox News: Russian bounties may have led to deaths of three marines]
• [NBC News: Joe Biden Responds To Report Of Russian Bounties On U.S. Troops]
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Published at 5:00am on Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Author: Bobby Coggins
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