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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Weather Briefing for Sunday, August 24, 2025




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GENERAL OUTLOOK

A cold front will approach the area today from the northwest, bringing a chance for showers and thunderstorms. The cold front will track across the forecast area tonight into Monday morning, allowing dry weather to return behind it for much of the week. High temperatures remain warm on Monday before a cooler, fall-like air mass develops the rest of the 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...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers with thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.

..TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.

...MONDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.

...MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the north 5 to 10 mph.

...TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.

...TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.


HAZARDOUS WEATHER Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.







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



• Mystery of the fate of Lost Colony finally solved after 435 years [Daily Mail (UK)]



• Canton officials, TBD Landfill manage mulch fire amid community concerns [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• North Carolina Supreme Court says bars' COVID-19 lawsuits can continue [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) ]

• NC highway on Hatteras reopening after flooding from Hurricane Erin [Raleigh News and Observer]

• Blue Ridge Parkway section reopens, connects Asheville to Graveyard Fields, Mt. Pisgah [Asheville Citizen-Times]



World News

Police separate anti-immigration and anti-racism protesters across the country | Sky News



Mexico lifts 8 million people out of poverty since 2022 | Al Jazeera



• Russia blames nuclear site attack on Ukraine as Kyiv marks independence day [BBC News]

• Is China an environmental friend or foe for Southeast Asia? [DW News]

• UN declares famine in Gaza City, the first in Middle East history [France 24]

• Ukraine drones turned Russia’s Druzhba oil lifeline into fire — second hit in Bryansk’s Unecha this month (video) [Euromaidan Press]

• Reaching peace in Ukraine is challenging task, German Chancellor says [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 23, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]

National News

Inside training center for new ICE officers | NBC News



• 5 things to know about California’s special election on redistricting [The Hill]

• European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over tariffs [AP News]

• Gov. Pritzker says Trump trying to 'manufacture a crisis' as admin plans National Guard deployment to Chicago [Fox News]

• Americans aren't drinking anymore. Alcohol giants are scrambling to manage the fallout. [Yahoo Finance]

• Businesses bringing back recession specials could be the latest sign of deteriorating consumer sentiment [CNBC]

Collins Says Next Fed Decision Not a Done Deal | Bloomberg Television



Afterwords: Michael Grynbaum, "The Empire of the Elite" | C-SPAN



ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - August 23, 2025 | ABC News



PBS News Weekend full episode, Aug. 23, 2025 | PBS News Hour



Listen to the full Ghislaine Maxwell DOJ interview tapes | PBS News Hour



Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, Aug. 22, 2025



SpaceX Starship Flight 10 | NASA Spaceflight



• What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 10 launch on Aug. 24? [Space.com]

• LASIK Without Lasers? Scientists May Have Found a Way [Gizmodo]

• Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory [Ars Technica]

• Public Keys: Ethereum Treasuries Soar, Bitcoin ETFs' $1 Billion Bleed, Crypto IPO Chatter [Decrypt]

• Rising Fed rate chatter may be a red flag for crypto: Santiment [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 5.00am on Sunday, August 24, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins







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