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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Temperatures rise back above normal through the week. A low pressure system could bring rain to the area for the weekend before dry and warm conditions return early next week.
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GENERAL FORECAST
(since this is a quick forecast intended to cover the whole county, bear in mind that higher elevations may experience cooler temperatures than this and the lower elevations may experience higher temperatures than those in the forecast)
..TODAY....Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph this afternoon.
...TONIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
...NEW YEARS DAY....Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
...THURSDAY NIGHT....Partly cloudy. Lows around 30. Winds out of the orthwest around 5 mph.
...FRIDAY....Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph.
...FRIDAY NIGHT....A chance of rain in the evening, then rain likely after midnight. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 70 percent.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)
State and Local News
17 homes spared from wildfire | WLOS-TV
• Mission Health announces visitor restrictions, citing high rate of flu in WNC [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Dominion Energy sues Trump administration over delay to $11.2B offshore wind project [NC Newsline]
• NC is selling more lottery tickets but giving less to schools, new audit shows [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Vacant NC state jobs produced $1 billion in lapsed salaries, auditor’s report says [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Transformer catches fire at Biltmore Estate winery, injuring 1 [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
The Chinese 'war game' military drills off Taiwan | Sky News
China Arms a Container Ship | Picket/Surveillance | First Strike | Cost Effective | Expendable | What's Going on With Shipping?
• Putin preparing hybrid attacks to undermine Europe, warns Moldova [Telegraph (UK)]
Would China use force against Taiwan? | Inside Story| Al Jazeera
• Jailed Hong Kong tycoon's 'teeth rotting and fingernails falling off' [BBC News]
• Germany: Merz says 2026 can be a 'year of new beginnings' [DW News]
• Russia offers no proof that Ukraine targeted Putin residence in drone attack [France 24]
Russo-Ukraine War
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 30, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
Zelenskyy: U.S. troops in Ukraine discussed with Trump | World News Tonight | TVP World
• Ukraine’s F-16s just shot down 34 of 35 Russian cruise missiles—and new tech may be why [Euromaidan Press]
• Russia’s Oreshnik missile system enters service in Belarus (FIRST OFFICIAL VIDEO) [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Russia-EU relations may change under new European Commission — diplomat [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
National News
• Why people choose not to share news [Nieman Lab]
US National Debt Visualized ($36 Trillion Dollars) | yeti dynamics
More artist cancel events at Kennedy Center after renaming | NBC News
• The Politics of Permanent Outrage [Reason Magazine]
• Trump administration says it’s freezing child care funds to Minnesota after series of fraud schemes [Ground News]
• 7 Kennedy Center acts that canceled amid Trump’s takeover [The Hill]
• CIA behind strike at Venezuelan dock that Trump claims was used by drug smugglers, AP sources say [AP News]
• Body found during search for missing Texas teen Camila Mendoza Olmos as another teen girl disappears [Fox News]
• ‘You Had to Be Brave’: Wall Street Remembers a Wild 2025 [Yahoo Finance]
• Fed minutes show officials were in tight split over December rate cut [CNBC]
Bloomberg Surveillance 12/30/2025 | Bloomberg Television
Washington Today (12-30-25): NYC mayor-elect names cabinet; Fed probe of alleged MN fraud expands | C-SPAN
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 30, 2025
PBS News Hour full episode, Dec. 30, 2025 | PBS News Hour
Technology and Science News
How Real Satellites Dogfight - Proximity Operations In Space Explained | Scott Manley
The Level1 Links With Friends Show December 31 2025: Cyber-AFLAC
• Immune 99: A Nobel for immune tolerance [Microbe TV]
• Science in 2050: the future breakthroughs that will shape our world — and beyond [Nature]
• These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025 [It's FOSS News]
• How NASA changed in 2025 — possibly forever [Space.com]
• NASA’s New Chief Finds Loophole for Texas Shuttle Switcheroo [Gizmodo]
• The science of how (and when) we decide to speak out—or self-censor [Ars Technica]
Crypto Currencies
Reflections from 2025: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Stocks, and Metals | Ben Cowen
• The Year in Stablecoins 2025: Record Growth as GENIUS Act Opens the Floodgates [Decrypt]
• Bitcoin’s $90K rejection: Is BTC's digital gold narrative losing to bonds? [Coin Telegraph]
NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) and ASN (Aviation Safety Network) Accident Investigation Pages
• Cirrus SR22T Crash [09/18/2025 - Franklin, NC]
• Crash of N259UP at Louisville-Muhammad Ali International Airport [Aviation Safety Network]
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Published at 6.00am on Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins
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