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A polar vortex is expected to bring a "mega-dump" of cold air to the central and eastern United States.

Western North Carolina will experience a temporary reprieve before temperatures plummet over the weekend.

Sunday night temperatures in the Asheville area are forecast to drop to around 11 degrees.

Asheville and Western North Carolina may get a slight reprieve from the cold during the day heading into the weekend , but it will soon be back.

Communities across the central and eastern United States are bracing for the sting of more cold air from the polar vortex that's expected this coming weekend, "like a wrecking ball," said Weather Trader meteorologist Ryan Maue in a post on X on Dec. 9.

Maue called it a "textbook 'Polar Vortex' mega-dump of western Canadi

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