OUTLOOK
An upper ridge will breakdown through Friday allowing afternoon to evening isolated convection focused across the mountains. A cold front passage late Friday into early Saturday will support more widespread activity. Surface high pressure to our northeast will support a cool and mainly dry conditions Sunday into early next week.
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Local News Update
(National News is published after the Macon Calendar section)
Flags Lowered Until Sunset on May 30th to Honor Victims of Shooting in San Jose, California by Order of the President and the Governor [LINK]
The Macon County Art Association in Franklin is pleased to announce that the Vet’s Portrait Project will be held this year. This will be our ninth year for this event. Unfortunately the pandemic precluded the project last year but the artists are ready to go for 2021. This year there are spots for 4-7 veterans as we had applications remaining from 2019. Please announce the call for Macon County Veterans or their family members to apply to have the Veteran’s portrait painted by one of our local artists. Vets or their families may apply at the gallery between Memorial Day and July 4th of this year. There is no cost to apply or for the portraits. The only requirement is that the Veteran or their family member be present to receive the portrait on Veterans Day November 11, 2021. Community members who wish to help support the costs for this program are also welcome. Contact the project chair by email at karen@programservices.org.
The Macon County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday night and the county manager presented his proposed budget. The next budget meeting will take place at 4pm on June 3rd, where Burningtown and Otto VFDs and the school system will present their budget requests to the board.
Download a PDF of the budget message [PDF]
Weather-related Video
Witnesses from California, Nevada, NOAA testify on drought conditions in Western U.S.
On this day in 2018: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley causing one death and destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City and causing cars to overturn. More videos about this flood and the aftermath are in the "On This Day" section at the bottom of this article.
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Saturday Night
Franklin area
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 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.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows around 60. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 11pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 50s. Light winds out of the northwest. Chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly in the midafternoon. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Highlands area
Today
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 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.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the west 3 to 6 mph. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday
A slight chance of showers between 10am and noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Winds out of the west 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a chance of showers between 11pm and 4am, then a slight chance of rain after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the west 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly between 9am and 5pm. Mostly sunny, with highs near 70.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
Otto area
Today
Isolated showers, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Patchy fog in the morning. Otherwise, partly 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. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the west 3 to 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly between 9am and 3pm. Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the lower 50s.
Nantahala area
Today
Isolated showers, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 80. Light winds out of the southwest. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then isolated showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 60s. Calm winds. Chance of rain is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 5pm. Partly sunny, with highs near 80. Light winds out of the southwest in the morning increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night
Showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight. Chance of rain is 70%.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly in the early-to-midafternoon. Partly sunny, with highs near 70.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 50.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Wed May 27 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the extreme upper range of green for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the lower range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There are no significant sources of smoke in the region as of 3am on 04-22-2021.)
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (6.9 out of 12) today with Birch, Hickory, and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-range range (7.2 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on May 26th
Highest Temperature 89°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2012
Lowest Temperature 31°F in Highlands in 1961
Greatest Rainfall 2.88 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1981
Greatest Snowfall (No snowfall recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
May Weather Extremes for Macon County
Highest Temperature 92°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-20-1966
Lowest Temperature 23°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-02-1963
Greatest Rainfall 5.97 inches in Highlands on 05-30-2018
Greatest Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands on 05-07-1992
Macon Calendar
The Macon County Art Association (a not for profit member organization) is offering classes in encaustic painting on Specified Fridays from 10AM-12PM at the Uptown Gallery 30 E Main St Franklin NC. Specific class dates are Friday July 9 and 23, August 3 and 27, September 3 and 17, October 29.
For more information contact the instructor, Karen Smith, at karen@programservices.org
National News Update
Biden calls for further investigation into COVID-19 origins
NBC Nightly News Broadcast (Full) - May 26th, 2021
PBS NewsHour full episode, May 26, 2021
On This Day
May 27th is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 218 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
926 - Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia [Wikipedia article]
1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. [Wikipedia] [Effects of Crusades on Medieval Europe] [VIDEO: The Rhineland Massacre of the Jews]
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199 – John is crowned King of England.
1257 – Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.
1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing. [VIDEO: The Qing Conquest of China: The Battle of Shanhaiguan] [VIDEO: The Manchu Invasion of China]
1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England [BBC4 VIDEO]
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia. [Article]
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland. [VIDEO: Overview of the Second Coalition]
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George. [Article]
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification. [VIDEO: How did Italy become a country?]
1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson. [History Net Article]
1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia. [VIDEO: Alexander III - History of Russia in 100 Minutes]
1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10–million in damage (almost $4 billion today). [VIDEO: 1896 St. Louis Tornado]
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1915 – HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives. [VIDEO: HMS Princess Irene]
1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church. [Wikipedia article (with links to text)]
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. [VIDEO: History Up Close with the NC-4]
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. [VIDEO: Chrysler Building Documentary]
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. [VIDEO: Securities Act of 1933]
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495). [Copy of Decision] [VIDEO: Lecture]
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive. [BBC Story on 75th Anniversary]
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later. [VIDEO: Operation Anthropoid: Was It Worth It?] [VIDEO: The Secret Operation to Assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - Operation Anthropoid]
1942 - Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. [Holocaust Encyclopedia article]
1950 – The Linnanmäki amusement park was opened for the first time in Helsinki.
1958 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office. [Wikipedia article]
1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline. [VIDEO: Portion of Christening Ceremony] [VIDEO: Current State of the Ship] [VIDEO: Visiting the USS JFK (CV-67) and Navy Yard August 13, 2020]
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre, part of the Pakistani genocide of hundreds of thousands of Bengalis. [VIDEO: The 1971 Bangladesh Genocide]
1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more. [VIDEO: How much do you know about the Gwangju uprising & modern history of South Korea?]
1984 – The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
1996 – First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2006 – The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
2017 – Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2018 – Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley causing one death and destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City and causing cars to overturn.
2020 - America's COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 (Johns Hopkins figures) equal to number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan put together
2020 - Spain begins 10 days of mourning for victims of COVID-19 with death toll just under 27,000
2020 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Hong Kong no longer has autonomy from China, doesn't merit special trade relationship, in note to Congress
2020 - Locust swarms in Africa and Asia due to extreme weather
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