Today, SATURDAY with CM, July 14, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for July 14, 2012:

Extent of our lives:
questions, how wide and endless;
answers, how finite.

--Robert Stone, Saturday, 14 July 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 305, in progress

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Countdowns

• It's Still (Delayed until further notice.) New KY 61 stretch opening had been announced for Wednesday, July 11, 2012, but weather conditions have delayed opening until further notice. Should be soon.
• It's 26 Days Until Adair County District Schools for the first day of School for students, Wednesday, August 8, 2012. 2012-2013 Adair Co. School Calendar

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WEATHER: Columbia, KY/NWS Weather Forecast: SATURDAYDAY, JULY 14, 2012

Hazardous Weather Outlook. Issued at 4:15amET, Saturday for Saturday, July 14, 2012
"A tropical airmass across the region today will continue to bringscattered storms to the region." - NWX.

For information on Hazardous Weather, if any, click to Hazardous Weather

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. this forecast from update at 5:35amCT July 14, 2012

Today - Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 2pm and 5pm, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight - Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 70. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Click to National Weather Service for Columbia, KY

The Kentucky Mesonet is The Commonwealth's Official Source for Weather and Climate Data.
Mesonet stations are live in: Adair - Casey - Cumberland - Metcalfe - Taylor

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Quick links to Sunday with CM Columns - plus some - your comments welcome on editorial choices - added since Sunday, but appropriate to Sunday with CM, items:
direct links to articles, columns, poems and/or photos possibly with other important links, are posted next:

• Tom Chaney: Of Writers and Their Books - No. R770: An elegant stylist - politics as balance
• Billy Joe Fudge: Nature - Kentucky Color - Bull Nettle
• Billy Joe Fudge: Nature -Kentucky Color: Blackberries and Bears 119 pound blackberry loving Adair County bear precisely measured by size of pile left in Greater Inroad area
• Chuck Hinman: Reminiscences - Most Beneficial Subject taken in High School
• Carol Perkins: Humor/Wisdom - Just a Little Something
• Robert Stone: Poetry - Poetry by Robert Stone: Comfort Lies, a sonnet

This story was posted on 2012-07-14 05:42:14