Today, FRIDAY with CM, September 28, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for September 28, 2012:

To do the right thing
one must first understand
what the right thing is.

--Robert Stone, Friday, 28 September 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 381, in progress

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Weather Today:

Hazardous Weather Outlook issued at 3:40amET, Friday, September 28, 2012: "SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 64 AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 65. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. .."

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. This forecast from update at 2:55amCT, September 28, 2012

Overnight - Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday - Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 9am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 9am and 2pm, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday night - A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. Calm wind.

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:

• Barbara Armitage: Commentary - Is It Just Me? Rant No. 2: Popsicles then and today
• Tom Chaney: Books - Tom Chaney: Grafton - Father and Daughter
• Billy Joe Fudge: Nature & More - Kentucky Color: I don't believe
• Chuck Hinman: Reminiscences -Chuck Hinman No 166 : Now! Hear this! / Rick Stull
• Robert H. Stone: Poetry - Poetry by Robert H. Stone: Past all rules - a sonnet
• Mike Watson: History - History with Mike Watson: The Dug Hill

This story was posted on 2012-09-28 02:59:31