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Saturday, September 27, 2025
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855 Addington Bridge Road
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Cold air damming is expected to dominate the local weather pattern through the coming week before a coastal low erodes the wedge this weekend. Below normal high temperatures can be expected each afternoon through at least Saturday despite a gradual warming trend Wednesday into the weekend. Shower and thunderstorm chances stick around this week, with the potential for locally heavy rainfall each day.
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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...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers this morning, then showers likely this afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
...TONIGHT...Showers. Patchy fog. Lows in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
...TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the afternoon. Patchy fog. Highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the east around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
...TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 60s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
...WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. 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)
New back-to-school warning as whooping cough cases rise | NBC News
• Macon County Board of Health - July 2025) | Macon Media [Patreon (early access for subscribers)]
• U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders to visit Asheville on ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour [BPR News]
• Newfound Gap Road reopens on North Carolina side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending July 31 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) ]
• Will Democrats try to ‘primary’ fellow Democrats for overriding Gov. Stein vetoes? [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Is Newfound Gap in Great Smoky Mountains National Park still closed? [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
Besieged Sudanese city of one million people is being starved to death | Sky News
• Secret filming exposes the 'madams' involved in Kenya's child-sex trade [BBC News]
• Why the birth rate in Germany continues to nosedive [DW News]
• Their families fled the Nazis. Facing Trump, US Jews are making Germany ‘Plan B’ [France 24]
• Rosneft’s southern oil hub on fire: drones set Russia’s Adler depot ablaze overnight [Euromaidan Press]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 3, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
National News
Inside the U.S. Army’s drone testing operations | NBC News
Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein | The Ezra Klein Show
• The Rise of Luigism [City Journal]
• Texas governor threatens to remove Democrats who left state over Trump-backed redistricting [AP News]
• Texas Democrats flee state to block Trump-backed redistricting vote in dramatic legislative move [Fox News]
• Trump to Name New Fed Governor, Jobs Data Head in Coming Days [Yahoo Finance]
• ‘The revisions are hard evidence’: White House struggles to justify firing of BLS chief over weak jobs numbers [CNBC]
Trump To Replace Fired Data Chief; OPEC+ Supply Glut Fears | Horizons Middle East & Africa 08/4/2025 | Bloomberg Television
Q and A Podcast: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future" | C-SPAN
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - August 03, 2025 | ABC News
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Published at 5.00am on Monday, August 04, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins

















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