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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Weather Briefing for Wednesday, September 17, 2025




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GENERAL OUTLOOK

Drier conditions expected as a coastal low lifts northward over the Mid-Atlantic today before pulling away from the East Coast Thursday. Weak high pressure builds over the Southeast through Saturday before stronger high pressure builds over the region late this weekend into early next week, allowing mostly dry conditions to continue. A warming trend starts today and peaks on Friday before a cooling trend returns briefly this 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 in the morning, then clearing. Patchy dense fog in the morning with visibility one quarter mile or less at times. Highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.

..TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy dense fog after midnight with visibility one quarter mile or less at times. Lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph.

..THURSDAY...Patchy dense fog in the morning. Sunny. Visibility one quarter mile or less at times in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph in the morning, becoming light and variable.

..THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds in the early evening increasing to come out of the northeast around 5 mph after midnight.

..FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

..FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.


HAZARDOUS WEATHER 

Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.







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



'One Year After' | Buncombe County's Helene Recovery Journey | WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)



• Watchdog agency says Trump violated law for sixth time in withholding FEMA funds [NC Newsline]

• Jamie Ager enters NC-11 race with message of rural roots, business acumen [Smoky Mountain News]

• $575k FEMA-approved reimbursement part of DOGE review process: NC Emergency Management [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• Republican NC lawmakers spar over Medicaid, children's hospital funding as budget impasse drags on [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• Medicaid cuts coming Oct. 1. NC health groups urge state leader to halt them [Raleigh News and Observer]

• Gov. Stein requests $13.5B in new Helene assistance from Congress [Asheville Citizen-Times]



World News

• Lee, Trump expected to meet in Gyeongju on sidelines of APEC summit: U.S. envoy [Yonhap News Agency]

'Historic' second state visit to the UK for Donald Trump | Sky News



FARC leaders sentenced in Colombia: Eight years of reparations work for kidnappings | Al Jazeera



• US officers tied us up and pointed guns at us, South Korean engineers tell BBC [BBC News]

• Trump gets royal welcome in UK as he makes historic second state visit [France 24]

Russo-UKraine War

EU Debates Russian Tourist Visa Ban as New Sanctions Loom | World News Tonight | TVP World News



• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1301: Ukraine Strikes Deep Into Russia While Advancing in Sumy [Euromaidan Press]

• Putin names purpose of Russia-Belarus drills [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]

• Poland open to deployment of foreign nuclear weapons — president [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 15, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]

National News

DC Juries Refuse to Indict Protestors | Legal Eagle



• Alleged Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler James Robinson makes first Utah court appearance [Salt Lake Tribune]

• Traditional TV dominates streaming’s share of TV time in August [The Desk]

Lawsuit alleges Allstate illegally collected driver data | NBC News



• Senators grill Patel in combative hearing: 5 takeaways [The Hill]

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies at Senate hearing in aftermath of Kirk killing | CBS News



• Democrat wins Minnesota House special election to replace assassinated leader [AP News]

• Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson charged with murder; prosecutors to seek death penalty [Fox News]

• Fed meeting likely to produce first rate cut of 2025. Will it keep going? [Yahoo Finance]

• Fed set to cut rates, but forecast for rest of 2025 is key to markets with politics clouding the picture [CNBC]

Trump, Xi And The Big Call On TikTok's Algorithm | Insight with Haslinda Amin 9/17/2025 | Bloomberg Television



Washington Today (9-16-25): FBI Dir Patel testifies on agency firings, Epstein files, Kirk shooting | C-SPAN



ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - September 16, 2025 | ABC News



PBS News Hour, Sept. 16, 2025 | PBS News Hour



Butterfly With 229 Chromosome Pairs Breaks Animal Kingdom Record | Anton Petrov



• How billions of hacked mosquitoes and a vaccine could beat the deadly dengue virus [Nature]

• Rust Coreutils Are Performing Worse Than GNU Coreutils in Ubuntu [FOSS NEWS]

• 'Totally unexpected': Stunning new imagery shows big changes in the 1st black hole ever captured by humanity (photo, video) [Space.com]

• Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Lectures Met With Protestors Who Seem to Think He’s the Antichrist [Gizmodo]

• A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled [Ars Technica]

• XRP, BNB, and Hyperliquid Lead Crypto Gains Ahead of Crucial Fed Decision [Decrypt]

• Bitcoin stuck at $116K resistance until ‘decisively reclaimed,’ says Bitfinex [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 6.00am on Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins







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