Today, TUESDAY with CM, October 30, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for October 30, 2012:

Not by changing place
but by cultivating each,
the whole earth improves.

--Robert Stone, Tuesday, 30 October 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 413, in progress

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WEATHER for today from National Weather Service:

Hazardous Weather A wind advisory has been issued at 10:24 PM ET MONDDAY, OCT 29 2012:
"...GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... .A VERY POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM WILL PUSH INTO PENNSYLVANIA TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. AS THIS STORM SYSTEM MOVES WEST THE PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA WILL INCREASE DRAMATICALLY. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE WITH GUSTS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH."

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. This forecast from update at 2:15amCT, TUESDAY, October 30, 2012

Overnight - Cloudy, with a low around 38. Northwest wind 18 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.
Tuesday - Cloudy, with a high near 48. Breezy, with a northwest wind 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.

Tuesday night - Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 33. West wind 10 to 15 mph.

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:

• Doug Beard: Travel - Travel with Doug Beard - Hong Kong album
• Tom Chaney: Books - Tom Chaney: An Island in the Stream
• Todd Davenport: Thanksgiving - Cass Davenport Kosair sculpture presented to packed house
• Billy Joe Fudge: Nature - Kentucky Color - Greenbriar
• Chuck Hinman: Reminisences - Chuck Hinman: IJMA 084 : What Makes Men Cry
• Carol Perkins: Travelogue, Final episode - Carol Perkins: Bully Awareness Month
• Ellen Zornes: HallowRead story, big photo album - HallowRead
• Robert Stone: Poetry - Poetry by Robert Stone: Your own sharp needs, a sonnet
• Mike Watson: History - Mike Watson: Halloween a century ago
• Mike Watson: History - Remembering Emma Lloyd: Historian has great memories of her

This story was posted on 2012-10-30 02:21:56