Today, FRIDAY with CM, August 31, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for August 31, 2012:

Posturing deceives.
Rage hinders useful struggle.
Taunting blunts success.

--Robert Stone, Friday, 31 August 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 353, in progress

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Countdowns

• It's 3 Days until Adair County's Premier Sports Event, the 6th Annual Wacky, Quacky Duck Race and the Columbia/Adair County Chamber of Commerce Buy, Trade, Sell & Swap Day.
• It's 3 Days until the Hospital Tax Recall Petition Deadline

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Weather Today:

Hazardous Weather Outlook issued at 4:25amCT, in part: "COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE WILL STREAM INTO THE AREA AHEAD OF THE REMNANTS OF ISAAC TODAY. SCATTERED HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY WEST OF I-65 THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT A RELATIVE LULL IN PRECIPITATION THIS EVENING BEFORE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP AGAIN TOWARD DAWN ON SATURDAY. THE BEST COVERAGE WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA. LOCALIZED POCKETS OF HEAVY RAIN COULD BRIEFLY REDUCE VISIBILITIES BELOW A HALF MILE AND CREATE PONDING ON ROADWAYS..." Read all at : Hazardous Weather,

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. this forecast from update at 5:35amCT August 31, 2012

Today - Isolated showers between 9am and 1pm, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 87. South wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tonight - Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 72. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Saturday

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 - Tom Chaney: Just Like a Goose
• Carol Perkins: Movie Review - Carol Perkins the movie critic: Hope Springs a must see
• Chuck Hinman: Reminiscences - Chuck Hinman: Everyone Needs To Excel At Something
• Robert Stone: Poetry - Poetry by Robert Stone: Archer with no arrow
• Ralph Roy Waggener: Personal Commentary - Ralph Roy Waggener: We need each other!

This story was posted on 2012-08-31 05:30:15