Today, WEDNESDAY with CM, October 17, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for October 17, 2012:

Acknowledge others:
reverence them for being,
respect for actions.

- Robert Stone, Wednesday, 17 October 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 400, in progress

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WEATHER for today from National Weather Service:

Hazardous Weather outlook isssued at 3:43ET, Wednesday, October 17, 2012: "TODAY and TONIGHT. PERIODS OF SHOWERS WITH SCATTERED EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT WITH THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER THE EVER PRESENT THUNDERSTORM THREAT OF CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING WILL EXIST. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE WINDS STRONG ENOUGH TO CAUSE LIMB DAMAGE TO WEAKER TREES."

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. This forecast from update at 4:15amCT, Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Today - Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Light south wind increasing to 9 to 14 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Tonight - Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then periods of showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 2am. Low around 54. South wind 11 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Thursday

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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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 Authors and Their Books - Tom Chaney: Playing for Pizza
• Billy Joe Fudge: Nature - Kentucky Color: The harvest
• Chuck Hinman: Reminiscences - Chuck Hinman: IJMA 102 - My Earliest Remembrance
• Mike Watson: History - John Eubank and the Historic Adair County Courthouse

This story was posted on 2012-10-17 04:28:41