Today, SATURDAY with CM, October 13, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for October 13, 2012:

No new thought is same
as recollection brought forth
for time has gone by.

--Robert Stone, Saturday, 13 October 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 396, in progress

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WEATHER for today from National Weather Service:

Hazardous Weather Special Weather Statement issued at 3:35amET, Saturday, October 13, 2012: "..SEVERE WEATHER AND GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE SUNDAY...

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE OHIO VALLEY ON SUNDAY AND CROSS THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT. WINDS WILL INCREASE OUT OF THE SOUTH SUNDAY MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON AS THE FRONT APPROACHES. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WILL DEVELOP BY MID MORNING WITH GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH POSSIBLE. THIS MAY CAUSE DIFFICULTIES FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES DRIVING ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS.

IN ADDITION TO THE GUSTY WINDS...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP WEST OF THE REGION AND TRACK EAST DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. SOME LARGE HAIL MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATER UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE."

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. This forecast from update at 5:55amCT, Friday, October 13, 2012

Today -Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8am. Cloudy, then grPatchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Light and variable wind becoming south 9 to 14 mph in the morning.

Tonight - Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. South wind 7 to 9 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:

• Tom Chaney: Books - Tom Chaney: Rights of Women
• Biily Joe Fudge: Kentucky Color - Kentucky Color: Colorful Concoction
• Billy Joe Fudge: Kentucky Color - Farmers Wreath; the differences between American and Japanese barbed wire.
• Chuck Hinman: Reminiscences - IJMA 039 - School days bugaboos
• Carol Perkins: Humor - Carol Perkins: Part II: Special eligibles trip - on board the Conquest
• Robert Stone: Poetry - Legacy not sold, a sonnet
• Mike Watson: History - John Eubank and the Historic Adair County Courthouse

This story was posted on 2012-10-13 06:11:39