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Saturday, October 25, 2025
South Macon Elementary
855 Addington Bridge Road
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A cold front crosses the area today with isolated showers and gusty winds. Dry high pressure returns Wednesday and remains into the weekend. A low pressure system may bring rain chances by 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 upper 50s to the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph this morning.
...TONIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
...THURSDAY....Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
...THURSDAY NIGHT....Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
...FRIDAY....Patchy frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
...FRIDAY NIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER
...INCREASED FIRE DANGER FROM 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
Dry and windy conditions return to the area today behind a departing cold front. Afternoon relative humidity values are expected to drop into the 25-30% range with intermittent wind gusts up to 15-20 mph. This, combined with dry fuel conditions, will result in increased fire danger across western North Carolina.
Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities on whether you can burn today. If you do burn, use extreme caution, as fires can spread rapidly under these conditions.
NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)
Joint Work Session Commissioners and Education (10-21-2025) Macon Media
• Lawmaker wants North Carolina to tap reserves to delay Medicaid cuts, but future of plan is murky [NC Newsline]
• Rep. Chuck Edwards on tourism post-Helene, uncertainty surrounding govt. shutdown [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• NC lawmakers plan steps to potentially remove Democratic legislator following charges of sex offense with minor [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Rift between NC Senate leaders grows after debate tactics, ‘dictator’ remark [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Comets Lemmon, SWAN will be visible in NC skies starting tonight. How, when to view [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
Why is Trump and Putin's meeting off? | Trump 100 | Sky News
Why Europe is building a ‘Drone Wall’ | Caspian Report
US anti-drug raids in Caribbean leave dozens dead | Al Jazeera
• Ukraine hits Russian chemical plant with UK-made Storm Shadow missiles [BBC News]
• Budapest talks on hold — but Europe still on edge [DW News]
• North Korea fires ballistic missiles ahead of Trump's South Korea summit visit [France 24]
Russo-UKraine War
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 21, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
"Ukraine could still win, I don’t think they will:" Trump backtracks on Ukraine | World News Tonight | TVP World
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1336: Finland urges West to help Ukraine win, not surrender [Euromaidan Press]
• Poland could resort to terrorism – Lavrov [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Media outlets spread fake news to undermine upcoming Russia-US summit — official [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
National News
‘They probably owe me a lot of money,’ Trump says about DOJ | NBC News
• Trump strikes nerve with East Wing ballroom demolition [The Hill]
• Ingrassia withdraws nomination after racist texts [Politico]
• Immigration agents conducting sweep on NYC’s famed Canal Street confronted by protesters [AP News]
• Police stationed at Laura Loomer’s house amid anti-Semitic death threats [The Telegraph (UK)]
• Car rams into White House barricade, suspect arrested: officials [Fox News]
• Netflix stock falls after earnings miss estimates, operating profit takes a hit [Yahoo Finance]
• This week’s critical inflation report comes with a variety of doubts about the data [CNBC]
Government Shutdown Drags Into Fourth Week | Balance of Power 10/21/2025 | Bloomberg Television
Washington Today (10-21-25): Pardoned Jan. 6th rioter charged with threatening to kill Rep. Jeffries | C-SPAN
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Oct. 21, 2025 | ABC News
PBS News Hour, Oct. 21, 2025 | PBS News Hour
Technology and Science News
Science and Technology News
Putting Out the Sun, Earth from Another Galaxy, Forever Locked Moon | Q and A 364 | Fraser Cain
Starship V3 Hardware Is Already Taking Shape | Starbase Update | NASA Spaceflight
• Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? [Nature]
• Linux's Favorite Game SuperTuxKart 1.5 Released with Graphics Overhaul and New Features [FOSS NEWS]
• OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas, Challenging Google Chrome With an AI-First Browser [CNET]
• This company's plan to launch 4,000 massive space mirrors has scientists alarmed: 'From an astronomical perspective, that's pretty catastrophic' [Space.com]
• FAA Imposes New Flight Restrictions Over Mar-a-Lago (Whether Trump Is There or Not) [Gizmodo]
• Elon Musk just declared war on NASA’s acting administrator, apparently [Ars Technica]
• Man Earns $5.8K in Ethereum, Gets Three Years' Probation [Decrypt]
• Bitcoin chart is echoing the 1970s soybean bubble: Peter Brandt [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 Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins
NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)
Joint Work Session Commissioners and Education (10-21-2025) Macon Media
• Lawmaker wants North Carolina to tap reserves to delay Medicaid cuts, but future of plan is murky [NC Newsline]
• Rep. Chuck Edwards on tourism post-Helene, uncertainty surrounding govt. shutdown [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• NC lawmakers plan steps to potentially remove Democratic legislator following charges of sex offense with minor [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Rift between NC Senate leaders grows after debate tactics, ‘dictator’ remark [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Comets Lemmon, SWAN will be visible in NC skies starting tonight. How, when to view [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
Why is Trump and Putin's meeting off? | Trump 100 | Sky News
Why Europe is building a ‘Drone Wall’ | Caspian Report
US anti-drug raids in Caribbean leave dozens dead | Al Jazeera
• Ukraine hits Russian chemical plant with UK-made Storm Shadow missiles [BBC News]
• Budapest talks on hold — but Europe still on edge [DW News]
• North Korea fires ballistic missiles ahead of Trump's South Korea summit visit [France 24]
Russo-UKraine War
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 21, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
"Ukraine could still win, I don’t think they will:" Trump backtracks on Ukraine | World News Tonight | TVP World
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1336: Finland urges West to help Ukraine win, not surrender [Euromaidan Press]
• Poland could resort to terrorism – Lavrov [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Media outlets spread fake news to undermine upcoming Russia-US summit — official [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
National News
‘They probably owe me a lot of money,’ Trump says about DOJ | NBC News
• Trump strikes nerve with East Wing ballroom demolition [The Hill]
• Ingrassia withdraws nomination after racist texts [Politico]
• Immigration agents conducting sweep on NYC’s famed Canal Street confronted by protesters [AP News]
• Police stationed at Laura Loomer’s house amid anti-Semitic death threats [The Telegraph (UK)]
• Car rams into White House barricade, suspect arrested: officials [Fox News]
• Netflix stock falls after earnings miss estimates, operating profit takes a hit [Yahoo Finance]
• This week’s critical inflation report comes with a variety of doubts about the data [CNBC]
Government Shutdown Drags Into Fourth Week | Balance of Power 10/21/2025 | Bloomberg Television
Washington Today (10-21-25): Pardoned Jan. 6th rioter charged with threatening to kill Rep. Jeffries | C-SPAN
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Oct. 21, 2025 | ABC News
PBS News Hour, Oct. 21, 2025 | PBS News Hour
Technology and Science News
Science and Technology News
Putting Out the Sun, Earth from Another Galaxy, Forever Locked Moon | Q and A 364 | Fraser Cain
Starship V3 Hardware Is Already Taking Shape | Starbase Update | NASA Spaceflight
• Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? [Nature]
• Linux's Favorite Game SuperTuxKart 1.5 Released with Graphics Overhaul and New Features [FOSS NEWS]
• OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas, Challenging Google Chrome With an AI-First Browser [CNET]
• This company's plan to launch 4,000 massive space mirrors has scientists alarmed: 'From an astronomical perspective, that's pretty catastrophic' [Space.com]
• FAA Imposes New Flight Restrictions Over Mar-a-Lago (Whether Trump Is There or Not) [Gizmodo]
• Elon Musk just declared war on NASA’s acting administrator, apparently [Ars Technica]
• Man Earns $5.8K in Ethereum, Gets Three Years' Probation [Decrypt]
• Bitcoin chart is echoing the 1970s soybean bubble: Peter Brandt [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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Support Macon Media
If you receive value from what Macon Media provides to the community, please consider becoming a supporter and contribute at least a dollar a month. Those who support Macon Media with at least a dollar a month receive early access to video of some events and meetings before they are made public on the website. Videos and news involving public safety are not subject to early access.
Or, if you prefer Pay Pal, try PayPal.me/MaconMedia
Published at 6.00am on Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins
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