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Saturday, September 27, 2025
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855 Addington Bridge Road
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A moist easterly flow of moisture will continue thru midday, but should gradually end later today as Imelda moves off to the east toward Bermuda. From tonight onward, dry high pressure ridging down from the northeast will control our weather, bringing cooler temperatures for Thursday and Friday, but normal temperatures and fair weather for the upcoming weekend.
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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....Partly sunny. Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
...TONIGHT....Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
...WEDNESDAY....Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
...THURSDAY....Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
...THURSDAY NIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)
• HELENE 2024: Scenes from the Flooding in Macon County on Thursday and Friday, Including a Water Rescue on Cullasaja Circle [Macon Media]
2025 Franklin Forward Candidate Forum | Macon Media
• Report: WNC needs 34,000 new homes by 2028 to meet demand after Helene [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Gov. Josh Stein calls for red flag law, says NC must fix ‘broken’ mental health care system [NC Newsline]
• Medicaid standoff could put health care for many North Carolinians at risk [BPR News]
• NC lawmakers wanted to make COVID shots easier to get. Why the law they passed did the opposite [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• How North Carolinians rank Gov. Josh Stein in new High Point University poll [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Gatinburg Bypass in Great Smoky Mountains National Park still closed after landslide [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
Tony Blair issues statement after Trump names him as part of Gaza 'Board of Peace' plan | Sky News
"Today is a historic day for peace..." (Trump and Nentanyahu on Gaza Peace Plan) | C-SPAN
Madagascar president dissolves government after youth-led deadly protests | Al Jazeera
• Leaders in Middle East and Europe welcome Trump's Gaza peace plan [BBC News]
• What is Donald Trump's 21-point plan to end Gaza war? [DW News]
• Trump, Hegseth to address top US commanders at secretive Quantico meeting [France 24]
Russo-UKraine War
Moldova deals heavy blow to Russian influence in key election | World News Tonight | TVP World News
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1313: Russia uses tankers to launch drone attacks across Europe [Euromaidan Press]
• Trump may have authorized Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia – aide [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Press review: Moldova holds parliamentary vote while NATO creates new threats to Russia[TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 29, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
National News
• House Democrats rally at Capitol in last-ditch effort to alter spending bill [The Hill]
• What will happen if there’s a government shutdown at day’s end [AP News]
• Liveblog: Michigan church shooting victims accounted for, gunman named as Thomas Jacob Sanford [Fox News]
• 'I think we're headed to a shutdown': What a government stoppage could look like [Yahoo Finance]
• Government shutdowns usually have little economic impact. This time could be different [CNBC]
Gov. Shutdown Looms; Proposed Gaza Peace Plan | Balance of Power: Late Edition 9/29/2025 | Bloomberg Television
Washington Today (9-29-25): VP Vance says gov't 'headed into a shutdown' after bipartisan WH meeting | C-SPAN
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - September 29, 2025 | ABC News
PBS News Hour, Sept. 29, 2025 | PBS News Hour
Science and Technology News
The Level1 Links With Friends Show September 30 2025: LibreOsterreich
• How money, politics and technology are redefining the PhD experience in 2025 [Nature]
• AI Comes to Open Source eBook Reader Calibre [FOSS NEWS]
• The Rubin Observatory's upcoming images may stack up to space telescope ones. Here's how [Space.com]
• Werner Herzog on AI-Generated Movies: ‘They Look Completely Dead’ [Gizmodo]
• Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million [Ars Technica]
• Bitcoin Whale Awakens After 12 Years to Move $44 Million in BTC [Decrypt]
• How one trader turned $125K into $43M on Ether — and what you can learn from it [Coin Telegraph]
NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) and ASN (Aviation Safety Network) Accident Investigation Pages
• Cirrus SR22T Crash [09/18/2025 - Franklin, NC]
• Midair Collision PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 Airplane and Sikorsky H-60 Military Helicopter [1/29/2025 - Arlington, VA]
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Published at 6.00am on Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins
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