Today, THURSDAY with CM, November 8, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for November 8, 2012:

Hope has two colleagues:
Anger at the way things are,
Courage to change them.

--Robert Stone, Thursday, 8 November 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 422, in progress

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WEATHER for today from National Weather Service:

Hazardous Weather Special Weather Statement issue at 454 AM EST THU NOV 8 2012 "...PATCHY DENSE FOG DEVELOPING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AUTOMATED OBSERVING STATIONS AS WELL AS A FEW AREA WEBCAMS INDICATE SOME PATCHY DENSE FOG DEVELOPING OVER THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING. VISIBILITY CAN BE REDUCED TO BELOW ONE MILE WITHIN SHORT DISTANCES. CANNOT RULE OUT A FEW ISOLATED SLICK SPOTS ON AREA ROADWAYS FOR OUTLYING LOCATIONS...WHERE FOG FORMS WITH AIR TEMPERATURES DIPPING BELOW THE FREEZING MARK. FOG SHOULD BEGIN TO DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE. WHEN ENCOUNTERING THESE PATCHES OF DENSE FOG WHILE DRIVING...SLOW DOWN...USE YOUR LOW-BEAM HEADLIGHTS...AND KEEP PLENTY OF DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND SURROUNDING TRAFFIC."

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. This forecast from update at 8 Nov 2012 4:35CT

Today - Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 55. Light north wind.

Tonight - Clear, with a low around 33. Calm wind.

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 here:

• Barbara Armitage: Birds of Kentucky - Wild Turkey seeks asylum at Tucker's Station Farms The story of Pilgram, a turkey who turned out to be a ham.
• Tom Chaney: Of Writers and Their Books Our Land is Honored
• Todd Davenport: Thanks for Kosair- Cass Davenport Kosair sculpture presented to packed house.
• Billy Joe Fudge: Nature - Kentucky Color - Wild Grapes
• Chuck Hinman: Reminisences - Chuck Hinman: IJMA 122 : Cigarettes In My Life
• Lee Ann Jessee: 2012 Silent City overview - The Silent City 2012 production was splendid success With many photos.
• Robert Stone: Poetry - Poetry by Robert Stone: Guilty but of what? - a sonnet
• Linda Waggener: Adair Co. Way with a twist - Haircut honors Mitzi Bault, creates a wig for a child with cancer

This story was posted on 2012-11-08 04:03:26