Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure will linger to our south through the weekend and into early next week, allowing temperatures to warm well- above normal for mid April. Another frontal system will approach our area by the middle of next week, and could bring showers and thunderstorms to the region.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Tuesday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. Winds out of the west 3 to 8 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, with highs near 80.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the west 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the west 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs near 80. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in thye upper 50s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 50s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
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Pollen levels are expected to be in the high range (11.1 out of 12) today with Oak, Sweetgum, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (11.5 out of 9.1).
Record Weather Events for April 14th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 84°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1972
Lowest Temperature 14°F in Highlands in 1920 (also a strate record for this date)
Greatest One-Day Rain 2.37 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1980
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands in 1913 (also a strate record for this date)
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of April Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 04-26-1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands on 04-01-1987
Greatest Rainfall 7.00 inches in Highlands on 04-07-1895 (also a state record)
Greatest Snowfall 9.5 inches in Franklin on 04-04-1987
Record Weather Events for April 14th in North Carolina
rdrd Highest Temperature 98°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1922
Lowest Temperature 14°F in Highlands, Macon County in 1920
Greatest Rainfall 4.56 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1980
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands, Macon County in 1913
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of April Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 102°F in Carthage, Moore County on 04-29-1981
Lowest Temperature 1°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-08-2007
Greatest Rainfall 7.30 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 04-16-2011
Greatest Snowfall 19.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-11-2003
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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)
April 2024 Schedule
4-20-24—Singer/Songwriter Zip Robertson returns to Frog Quarters after a long hiatus. Zip hales recently from Coffee Shops and venues in Swain County and Frog Quarters is happy he’s travelling across the hill to be with us again.
4-27-24—-------------SUPER ADOPTION DAY at Frogs!!
PAWSITIVE (the Macon Co. Animal Shelter Volunteers) and AARC (the Appalachian Animal Rescue Center) will be conducting a great Adoption Day on the outside, while on the inside several of our area talented musicians will bring their talents to Frog Quarters. On the slate are:
George James
Bill Peterson
The Shifty Sisters
Charley Simmons
Dave Stewart
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!
2nd Annual Youth Mental Health Rally and March
Sunday, April 28, 2024 From 2pm to 5pm
Organized and presented by Gracie Parker/Why Us Kids? Come join us for the 2nd Annual Youth Mental Health Rally at the Gazebo, downtown Franklin NC to raise awareness to the youth mental health crisis in our community, county and State. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/events/3684885531726614
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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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses joint meeting of Congress | full video | CBS News
Explosions heard over Jerusalem as Iranian drones approach | Sky News
Israel vows to respond to Iranian drone attack (video as it happened) | ABC News
Biden condemns attack on Israel | Fox News
Iran on high alert for possible Israeli response: AJE correspondent | Al Jazeera
• Israel says Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles, 99% of which were intercepted [AP News]
• Iran attacks Israel: No drones, cruise missiles breached Israeli airspace [Jerusalem Post]
• Iran launches hundreds of missiles, drones in first direct attack on Israel [Al Jazeera]
• Israel thwarted Iranian attack with US help, Biden says [BBC News]
• World leaders condemn Iran's attack on Israel [DW News]
• White House says 'we warned Iran' over threats to Israel [France 24]
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 4/12/24
2024 Campaign Trail: Abortion Rhetoric Takes Center Stage & Trump's Visit to Chick-Fil-A | C-SPAN
Iran Captures MV MSC Aries off the Straits of Hormuz | Shipping Under Attack | What's Going on With Shipping?
Washington Today (4-12-24): House passes FISA Sect 702 reauthorization minus warrant amendment | C-SPAN
Global National: April 13, 2024 | US shoots down Iranian drones launched at Israel
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - April 13, 2024
"CBS Weekend News" Full Broadcast | April 13, 2024
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 13, NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (April 13, 2024)
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On This Day
April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 261 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)
43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum between the forces of Mark Antony, and legions loyal to the Roman Senate under the overall command of consul Gaius Pansa.
69 – Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum to take power over Rome.
193 - Lucius Septimius Severus crowned Emperor of Rome
966 – After his marriage to the Christian Doubravka of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
972 – Co-Emperor Otto II, a son of Otto I (the Great), marries the Byzantine princess Theophanu. She is crowned empress by Pope John XIII at Rome.
1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1561 – A celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle.
1639 – Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Years' War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
1841 - 1st detective story published, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue"
1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1860 - 1st Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St Joseph, Missouri
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln lives till the following day.
1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opens in New York City, United States, using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1900 – The world's fair Exposition Universelle opens in Paris.
1906 – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1908 – Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m) high downstream.
1909 – A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1929 – The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix takes place in the Principality of Monaco. The race was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti Type 35.
1931 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
1935 – The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
1941 – World War II: German and Italian forces attack Tobruk in Libya.
1944 – Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1945 – Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroyed the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
1978 – Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1981 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
1986 – The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2 lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2006 – Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during Asr prayer in Jama Masjid, Delhi injure 13 people.
2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
2014 – Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.
2014 – Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
2015 - Archaeologists announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans
2016 – In Japan, the foreshock of Kumamoto earthquakes occurs.
2020 - Parts of Europe begin to ease lockdown restrictions after 5-6 weeks with some shops opening in Austria and parts of Italy
2020 - IMF warns the global economy expected to contract by 3% in 2020 due to COVID-19 "Great Lockdown", steepest downturn since the Great Depression
2020 - US President Donald Trump freezes funding for the World Health Organization pending a review, for mistakes in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and for being "China-centric", prompting international criticism
2021 - US President Biden says "It's time to end America's longest war" confirming his decision to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by Sept 11
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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, April 14, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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