• Outdoor Burning Not Recommended (Monday, 11-17-2025)
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• [SEVERE WEATHER CHANNEL]
GENERAL OUTLOOK
High pressure will bring very dry air and near-normal temperatures early this week. Conditions will become very warm again during the latter half of the week ahead of the next cold front, which may bring rain chances next weekend.
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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. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.
..TONIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds.
..TUESDAY....Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph.
..TUESDAY NIGHT....Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
..WEDNESDAY....Partly sunny. A chance of rain in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s. Winds out of the west around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
..WEDNESDAY NIGHT....Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER
Although wind gusts will be lighter today than they were on Sunday, very low relative humidity values combined with dry vegetation will create an increased danger of wildfires today.
NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)
State and Local News
• 'It's not making us safer': Gov. Stein issues statement on Border Protection in NC [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners | November 2025 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• Immigrant advocates in NC create statewide map of ICE activity [NC Newsline]
• 81 people arrested in Border Patrol's 1st day of Charlotte immigration enforcement operation [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• NC governor: Border Patrol agents in Charlotte racially profile and stoke fear [Raleigh News and Observer]
• The federal shutdown has ended. What does it mean for Western North Carolina? [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
Hundreds of tonnes of waste dumped in Oxfordshire field | Sky News
Saudi fund, Kushner’s firm to buy games maker Electronic Arts in $55bn deal | Al Jazeera
• (audio) Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein Files, and the scandal that won’t go away [BBC News]
• Liveblog: Bangladesh ex-PM Hasina guilty of crimes against humanity [DW News]
• Zelensky expected in Paris to seek deals on air defence as Russian strikes intensify [France 24]
Russo-Ukraine War
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 16, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
“The most expensive were kids”: survivor recounts "sniper tourism" | World News Tonight | TVP World
• Ukraine strikes Russia’s major Russian refinery with new jet-powered drones (VIDEO) [Euromaidan Press]
• West wants to finish Russia as a great power – John Mearsheimer [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Russian Armed Forces liberated two settlements in Zaporozhye Region [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
National News
Operation Charlotte’s Web: Trump administration expands immigration crackdown to new city | NBC News
• Trump administration to withdraw some National Guard troops from Chicago, Portland: Reports [The Hill]
• In reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files [AP News]
• ‘Golden toilet’ scandal: Zelenskyy faces deepest crisis yet as allies accused in $100M wartime scheme [Fox News]
• ‘Hold your ground’: Wall Street strategists say tech stock sell-off is a short-term blip as earnings bull case remains intact [Yahoo Finance]
• China slow-walks U.S. soybean purchases as stockpiles hit multi-year highs, undermining Trump’s trade deal claims [CNBC]
China-Japan Spat Escalates | Insight with Haslinda Amin 11/17/2025 | Bloomberg Television
C-SPAN America's Book Club Treasures with Walter Isaacson
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - November 16, 2025 | ABC News
PBS News Hour, Nov. 16, 2025 | PBS News Hour
Technology and Science News
Bitcoin Falls Below the 50 Week Moving Average | Into the CryptoVerse
• Pig-organ transplants are often rejected — researchers find a way to stop it [Nature]
• Ubuntu's New 15-Year Commitment Targets Long-Lived Enterprise Systems [FOSS NEWS]
• This Week In Space podcast: Episode 186 — Snow on the Moon? [Space.com]
• The ‘De Facto Flag of Gen Z’: What the One Piece Flag Is Doing in Mexico During Protests [Gizmodo]
• The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence [Ars Technica]
Crypto Currencies
Bitcoin Falls Below the 50 Week Moving Average | Into the CryptoVerse
• Dead Internet Theory Gains Traction as AI Content Surges Online [Decrypt]
• Bitcoin briefly erases 2025 gains as crypto bleeds over weekend [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, November 17, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins
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