Today, FRIDAY with CM, October 5, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for October 5, 2012:

No one tames a cat
but a cat may tame itself
to humor humans.

--Robert Stone, Friday, 5 October 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 388, in progress

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WEATHER for today from National Weather Service:

Hazardous Weather Special Weather Statement at 3:47amET, Friday, October 5, 2012:
"...FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE EARLY MONDAY MORNING... CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING UNSEASONABLY CHILLY TEMPERATURES TO THE OHIO VALLEY THIS WEEKEND. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES WILL OCCUR SUNDAY NIGHT...WHEN READINGS WILL DROP INTO THE 30S ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. WITH CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS...WIDESPREAD FROST WILL ACCOMPANY THESE COLD TEMPERATURES FOR A FEW HOURS AROUND DAYBREAK MONDAY. SOME LOCATIONS ACROSS THE BLUEGRASS REGION...AND OTHER TYPICAL COLD SPOTS...WILL EXPERIENCE TEMPERATURES NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING. GARDENERS HOPING TO PRESERVE OUTDOOR PLANTS FOR A FEW MORE DAYS WILL WANT TO KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST TEMPERATURE FORECASTS FOR MONDAY MORNING."

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. This forecast from update at 5:15amCT, October 5, 2012

Today - Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight - Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

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
• Anita Stotts Clark: Adair County Way Story, with heart - The Dance on Trinity Hill: The social event of the season
• Tom Chaney: Books - Tom Chaney: Dysfunctional Heroes - Patricia Cornwell
• Billy Joe Fudge: Kentucky Color - Farmers Wreath; the differences between American and Japanese barbed wire.
• Chuck Hinman: Reminiscences - IJMA 001 - Shoplifting story
• Carol Perkins: Humor - Carol Perkins: Trips by special eligibles are all about Good Deals!
• Robert Stone: Poetry - To better try, a sonnet
• Mike Watson: History - History with Mike Watson: The Dug Hill

This story was posted on 2012-10-05 05:03:16