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Saturday, August 30, 2025

Weather Briefing for Saturday, August 30, 2025




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GENERAL OUTLOOK

Cooling high pressure builds into the area today and continues into early next week. Isolated to widely scattered showers and few thunderstorms will be possible each day across the mountains. Temperatures remain below seasonal normals through the 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...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the east around 5 mph.

..TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
...SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
...SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the east around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
...LABOR DAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers and hunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
...MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
...TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.


HAZARDOUS WEATHER Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.







NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)


Football Score:

Franklin 28
Robbinsville 7


• Friday Football Frenzy: Aug. 29, 2025, scores and highlights [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• (vote) Activists advocate for federal bill that would require birth certificate or passport in person to register to vote [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) ]

• Trump administration tells NC to drop ‘gender ideology’ from sex ed or lose funding [Raleigh News and Observer]

• Can US residents still get vaccinated for COVID-19? See changes to HHS regulations [Asheville Citizen-Times]



World News

Trump ends Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection after Biden extended it | AP News



Analysis: Will Copenhagen meeting move the dial? | Sky News



E3 snapback fallout: Iran calls move immoral, unjustified and unlawful | Al Jazeera



• US court rules many of Trump's global tariffs are illegal [BBC News]

• Ukraine: Russia launches 'massive attack' on Dnipropetrovsk [DW News]

• Is Modi snubbing Trump amid tariff spat? [France 24]

• Another “Triumf” fails: Ukrainian drone turns Russian air defense radar in occupied Crimea into scrap [Euromaidan Press]

• Vance accuses Politico of ‘foreign influence operation’ against Witkoff [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 29, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]

National News

Reflections and lessons of Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later | NBC News



• Kids injured in Annunciation Church shooting showed bravery amid chaos [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]

• RFK Jr. has never been briefed by CDC experts on measles, COVID-19 or flu, former official says [The Hill]

• What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a federal appeals court has knocked them down? [AP News]

• Federal court strikes down Trump tariffs as illegal under federal law in appeals ruling [Fox News]

• Judge delays decision on Trump's move to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook. Here's what's next. [Yahoo Finance]

• Core inflation rose to 2.9% in July, highest since February [CNBC]

Is The Federal Reserve's Independence at Risk? | Bloomberg Television



Washington Today (8-29-25): Hurricane Katrina 20th Anniv.; Pres. cuts $4.9B by 'pocket rescission' | C-SPAN



ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - August 29, 2025 | ABC News



PBS News Weekend full episode, Aug. 29, 2025 | PBS News Hour



Full Analysis of Starship IFT-10 with ‪Scott Manley‬ and ‪Marcus House‬ | Fraser Cain



• Galactic cannonballs: The mystery of hypervelocity white dwarfs may just have been solved [Space.com]

• This ‘Magical’ Material That Dissolves Like Candy Is Exactly What EVs Have Been Missing [Gizmodo]

• CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand. [Ars Technica]

• 'Red September' Is Coming—Here's What to Expect From the Bitcoin Market [Decrypt]

• Bitcoin price dips to lowest since July 8 as liquidations pass $530M [Coin Telegraph]


NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) Investigation Pages

• Learjet 55 Medevac Crash [1/31/2025 - Philadelphia, PA]

• Midair Collision PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 Airplane and Sikorsky H-60 Military Helicopter [1/29/2025 - Arlington, VA]
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Published at 6.30am on Saturday, August 30, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins







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