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Today, THURSDAY, October 11, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for October 11, 2012:
After tragedy --
one with rooted sense of place
clings more to that place.
--Robert Stone, Thursday, 11 October 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 394, in progress

WEATHER for today from National Weather Service:
Hazardous Weather Urgent: Freeze Warning. issued at 9:38pmET, Wednesday, October 10, 2012: ".....FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM EDT /2 AM CDT/ TO 9 AM EDT /8 AM CDT/ THURSDAY...
  • TEMPERATURES...LOWS TONIGHT WILL RANGE FROM THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S IN MOST LOCATIONS. VALLEYS AND TYPICALLY COLD LOCATIONS ARE MOST LIKELY TO BOTTOM OUT THE UPPER 20S.
  • IMPACTS...WIDESPREAD FROST FORMATION IS EXPECTED AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...AND THE FROST WILL LINGER AN HOUR OR SO PAST SUNRISE. SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES AND FROST WILL LIKELY CAUSE SENSITIVE PLANTS TO BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION.
The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. This forecast from update at 12:55mCT,Thursday, October 11, 2012
Overnight - Widespread frost. Otherwise, clear, with a low around 32. Calm wind.

Thursday - Widespread frost before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 65. Calm wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the morning.

Thursday night - Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. Light southwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

For complete current National Weather Service forecast:
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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