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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Winds diminish but much cooler conditions continue today. Near normal temperatures return mid to late week. A low pressure system could bring rain to the area for the weekend. Dry but warm conditions return 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 mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph, decreasing to 25 mph this afternoon.
..TONIGHT....Mostly clear. Cold with lows around 19. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
..WEDNESDAY....Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
..WEDNESDAY NIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
..NEW YEARS DAY....Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
..THURSDAY NIGHT....Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER
Wind gusts of 35 to 45 mph with locally higher gusts will linger this morning. In higher elevations above 3500 feet, wind chills will start the day below zero.
NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)
State and Local News
Depth with Dan: What is the 'K-shaped' economy? | WRAL-TV
• Officials warn against open burning due to increased fire risk through Dec. 31 [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• North Carolina cracks top ten in first rural hospital funding allocation from Medicaid [NC Newsline]
• NC is selling more lottery tickets but giving less to schools, new audit shows [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• ‘Super flu’ is spreading in NC. What’s different about this strain? [Raleigh News and Observer]
• AdventHealth restricts visiting as respiratory virus cases rise [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
Disarm or face 'wipeout': Trump's message to Hamas | Sky News
China Arms a Container Ship | Picket/Surveillance | First Strike | Cost Effective | Expendable | What's Going on With Shipping?
• Trump criticises Ukraine for ‘attacking Putin’s house’ [Telegraph (UK)]
Taiwan scrambles jets as China tests missiles on a second day of military drills | Al Jazeera
• Russia's losses in Ukraine rise faster than ever as US pushes for peace deal [BBC News]
• Trump says US 'hit' Venezuela drug boat loading facility [DW News]
• Flattering Trump: a 2025 retrospective [France 24]
Russo-Ukraine War
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 29, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
Diplomacy meets reality: Putin escalates war after Trump–Zelenskyy talks | World News Tonight | TVP World
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1405: Zelenskyy warns Russia preparing Kyiv strikes to derail Trump talks [Euromaidan Press]
• Response to Kiev’s attack on Putin’s residence will not be diplomatic – Moscow [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Trump’s reaction to attack on Putin’s residence and contacts with Kiev: Putin-Trump call [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
National News
• Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future [Columbia Journalism Review]
Rise of AI data centers is increasing job opportunities for electricians | NBC News
• Research Suggests People Who Work From Home Are Having More Babies [Reason Magazine]
• Homeland Security says a fraud investigation is underway in Minneapolis [Ground News]
• 5 takeaways on Trump-Netanyahu meeting at Mar-a-Lago [The Hill]
• Why China is holding military drills around Taiwan — and the history behind it [AP News]
• Unearthed surveillance exposes how parents were allegedly involved in Minnesota's daycare fraud scheme [Fox News]
• Every Wall Street Analyst Now Predicts a Stock Rally in 2026 [Yahoo Finance]
• Elon Musk envisions humanoid robots everywhere. China may be the first to make it a reality [CNBC]
Bloomberg Surveillance 12/29/2025 | Bloomberg Television
Washington Today (12-29-25): Pres. Trump meets Israeli PM & Ukrainian Pres. at Mar-a-Lago | C-SPAN
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - December 29, 2025
PBS News Hour full episode, Dec. 29, 2025 | PBS News Hour
Technology and Science News
Major Scientific Discoveries of 2025, Video Compilation | Anton Petrov
Cordkillers 580: YouTube Gets the Gold Statue | Cordkillers
• TWiV 1273: Myocarditis and mimicry [Microbe TV]
• Are we living in a parallel universe? The strange physics of Stranger Things [Nature]
• If You Have an Older NVIDIA GPU on Arch Linux, Your System Might Be Broken [It's FOSS News]
• 12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025 [Space.com]
• Trump’s Crusade Against ‘Woke’ Climate Research Threatens Solar Science [Gizmodo]
• US can’t deport hate speech researcher for protected speech, lawsuit says [Ars Technica]
Crypto Currencies
Bitcoin: Dubious Speculation | Ben Cowen
• Crypto Crystal Ball 2026: Will Crypto Lose the Fight for a Market Structure Bill? [Decrypt]
• Is Bitcoin’s 4-year cycle broken — and if so, where to next? [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 Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins
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