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GENERAL OUTLOOK
Rain chances return to the area Friday night and continue off and on through early Sunday. A strong cold front moves through on Sunday, ushering in very cold weather Sunday night through Tuesday, along with a chance for light snow showers in the mountains. Temperatures slowly warm through through 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....Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT....Showers likely. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows around 50. Winds out of the south around 5 mph, becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY....Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Visibility one quarter mile or less at times in the morning. Highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT....Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY....Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in the upper 50s. Temperature falling into the lower 50s in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT....Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers. Much colder with lows in the mid 20s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)
• 1 injured, suspect sought after Swain County shooting [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Federal judges in NC will consider bid to block newly gerrymandered district [NC Newsline]
• Stein orders NC lawmakers back into session to address Medicaid funding shortfalls [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• IRS halts free direct tax filing option used by thousands in North Carolina [Raleigh News and Observer]
• FEMA approves additional $155M for Helene reimbursements [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
Prince William and Sir Keir Starmer push for renewed global climate action at COP30 | Sky News
Sudan's RSF says it accepts truce proposal for a humanitarian pause | Al Jazeera
• Typhoon barrels towards Cambodia after killing at least 193 in Philippines and Vietnam [BBC News]
• Middle East: Kazakhstan joining Abraham Accords, says Trump [DW News]
• Peru declares Mexican president unwelcome amid escalating asylum dispute [France 24]
Russo-Ukraine War
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 6, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
Mother on hunger strike reignites anti-government protests in Serbia | World News Tonight | TVP World
• Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1352: Ukraine documents 190,000 war crimes as Russia uses deported children for diplomatic leverage [Euromaidan Press]
• Missiles return to Europe – what direction are they pointing in? [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Trump claims Russian oil exports drop due to sanctions [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
National News
• UPS plane crash latest | Death toll climbs to 13, UPS identifies crewmembers [WHAS-TV (Louisville, KY)]
NTSB Media Briefing 2 - UPS MD-11 Cargo Aircraft Crash, Louisville, KY | NTSB
• Crash of N259UP at Louisville-Muhammad Ali International Airport [Aviation Safety Network]
Jury acquits D.C. man accused of throwing sandwich at federal agent | NBC News
• Senate to vote Friday on pathway to end shutdown [The Hill]
• What a reporter found when she investigated US military strikes on Venezuelan drug boats [AP News]
• Melania Trump named Fox Nation’s ‘Patriot of the Year’ for global children’s advocacy work [Fox News]
• OpenAI CEO Altman denies company is looking into government bailout [Yahoo Finance]
• Tesla says shareholders approve Musk’s $1 trillion pay plan with over 75% voting in favor [CNBC]
China's Exports Fall; AI Valuations, Job Woes Weigh on Stocks | Insight with Haslinda Amin 11/7/2025 | Bloomberg Television
Washington Today (11-6-25): Senate votes Fri on new way to end gov't shutdown; Rep. Pelosi to retire | C-SPAN
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - November 6, 2025 | ABC News
PBS News Hour, Nov. 6, 2025 | PBS News Hour
Technology and Science News
A Clear Path for a Solar Storm Train & Big X-Flares | Solar Storm Forecast 6 November 2025 | Dr.Tamitha Skov
TAncient Lead Exposure Shaped Human Evolution and Brain Development | Antov Petrov
• ‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text [Nature]
• Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion—Unless You Self‑Host [FOSS NEWS]
• This Apollo-era radio telescope in the NC mountains once spied on Soviet satellites. Now it's for sale [Space.com]
• Tesla Shareholders Decide Elon Musk Should Be the World’s First Trillionaire [Gizmodo]
• Musk and Trump both went to Penn—now hacked by someone sympathetic to their cause [Ars Technica]
Crypto Currencies
Why ALT Season Has Not Happened | Into the CryptoVerse
• Google Threat Report Links AI-powered Malware to DPRK Crypto Theft [Decrypt]
• Bitcoin ‘$68K too low’ versus gold says JPMorgan as BTC, stocks dip again [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 Friday, November 07, 2025
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