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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure builds into the area today, bringing temperatures near normal to start the week. A warm front will lift northeast through the area Tuesday, bringing small rain chances to the mountains and an unusually warm air mass for late December to the region. Expect dry conditions elsewhere, and well-above normal temperatures for the Christmas holiday.
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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 around 50. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
..TONIGHT....Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds around 5 mph.
..TUESDAY....Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds around 5 mph.
..TUESDAY NIGHT....Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
..WEDNESDAY....Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
..WEDNESDAY NIGHT....Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER
...INCREASED FIRE DANGER FROM 10 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING...
Warmer conditions today combined with a very dry air mass will result in relative humidity in the 20 to 30% range this afternoon. This low humidity combined with dry vegetation will enhance the fire danger across the area.
Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities on whether you can burn today. If you do burn, use extreme caution since fires can quickly get out of hand under these conditions.
NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)
State and Local News
Great Smoky Mountains National Park enhancing safety with new road project [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending Dec. 18 [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Inside NC Highway Patrol incidents linked to deaths, injuries, quiet payouts [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Ayurvedic alternative wellness village planned north of Asheville [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
What is behind the interceptions of tankers carrying Venezuelan oil? | Sky News
President Trump Announces a "Blockade" [or Embargo] of Venezuela | The John Paul Jones Edition | What's Going on With Shipping?
• US pursues third oil tanker linked to Venezuela [Telegraph (UK)]
US intercepts third vessel off Venezuela as pressure mounts on Maduro | Al Jazeera
• Bondi gunmen threw explosives at start of attack and practised shooting weeks before, police allege [BBC News]
• France to build new aircraft carrier — Macron [DW News]
• Liveblog: Russian general dies in Moscow car bomb attack [France 24]
Russo-Ukraine War
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 21, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
Russia knocks back talks involving Ukraine and the U.S. | World News Tonight | TVP World
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1396: US intelligence warns Putin eyes Ukraine, Baltics, and Poland while Trump team insists Russia wants peace [Euromaidan Press]
• Putin warns NATO against potential blockade[Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Senior Russian general killed in bomb blast in Moscow — Investigative Committee [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
National News
• Transparency Didn’t Delay Justice for R. Kelly or Jeffrey Epstein. Prosecutors Did. [Columbia Journalism Review]
Massive power outage creates chaos in San Francisco | NBC News
John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois sign off after their last "CBS Evening News" broadcast | CBS Evening News
• Congress Demands Probe as 16 Files Allegedly Disappear from DOJ Epstein Release [Ground News]
• Khanna, Massie threaten ‘inherent contempt’ charges against Bondi over partial release of Epstein files [The Hill]
• Top Trump administration official defends partial release of Epstein files as Democrats cry foul [AP News]
• Former classmate says suspect in Brown, MIT killings was ‘socially awkward’ and ‘angry’ during college years [Fox News]
• Breaking out the 'selective scalpel': Wall Street sees AI stock trade as intact [Yahoo Finance]
• Gold and silver prices soar to new highs as the yellow metal reemerges as a hedge [CNBC]
Venezuela's Oil Blockade; Stocks Rally | Horizons Middle East & Africa 12/22/2025 | Bloomberg Television
Lectures in History: The Barbary Pirates and Early American Foreign Policy | C-SPAN
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 21, 2025
PBS News Hour full episode, Dec. 21, 2025 | PBS News Hour
Technology and Science News
Milky Way's Center Reveals Previously Unknown Features | Anton Petrov
Why Everyone Is Talking About Data Centers In Space | Scott Manley
• TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton [Microbe TV]
• Science in 2026: the events to watch for in the coming year [Nature]
• Decentralized YouTube Alternative PeerTube Adds Creator Mode [It's FOSS News]
• Blue Origin launches 1st wheelchair user to space and back (video) [Space.com]
• Blackout in San Francisco Litters Streets with Traffic-Blocking, Deactivated Waymos [Gizmodo]
• How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade [Ars Technica]
Crypto Currencies
Inflation Drops to 2.7% | Bitcoin, Altcoins, Stocks | Benjamin Cowen
• Decrypt’s 2025 Project of the Year: Hyperliquid [Decrypt]
• Bitcoin traders split between $70K crash and BTC price rebound within days [Coin Telegraph]
NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) and ASN (Aviation Safety Network) Accident Investigation Pages
• Cirrus SR22T Crash [09/18/2025 - Franklin, NC]
• Crash of N259UP at Louisville-Muhammad Ali International Airport [Aviation Safety Network]
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Published at 6.00am on Monday, December 21, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins
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