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Holiday Weather

Full moon rising as well.

Via NWS:

Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. West wind around 7 mph.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. Northwest wind between 3 and 7 mph.

Christmas Day: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. North wind around 7 mph.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. North wind between 7 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

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Weekend weather

Sunday, we may see thunderstorms, which where I’m from means it will snow withing ten days or so.

Via NWS:

Today: A slight chance of rain or drizzle. Cloudy, with a high near 51. East wind between 6 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tonight: A chance of drizzle. Cloudy, with a low around 47. Northeast wind 6 to 9 mph becoming southeast.

Sunday: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 64. Breezy, with a south wind between 11 and 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 35. West wind between 8 and 13 mph.

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Wednesday Weather

Slight chance we’ll see some flakes.

Don’t forget to panic.

Via NWS

Today: A slight chance of rain and snow showers before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 47. Southwest wind between 3 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm.

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Tuesday Weather

Cold morning. Mild afternoon
Today: Sunny, with a high near 53. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. South wind around 6 mph.

Coming later in the week: POSSIBLE MOISTURE
Via NWS:

SYNOPSIS…HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVERHEAD FOR MOST OF THE DAY.
THE HIGH HEADS OFFSHORE TONIGHT AHEAD OF A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH…WHICH MOVES ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN AGAIN FOR THURSDAY. HOWEVER…LOW PRESSURE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN GEORGIA AND NORTHERN FLORIDA THURSDAY NIGHT MAY PUSH MOISTURE NORTH INTO CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA BY LATE THURSDAY
NIGHT.

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Monday Weather

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Plenty windy yesterday and, with all the soaked branches, plenty of kindling hit the ground as well.
OWASA’s official rain numbers aren’t out yet, but it looks to be an inch or so around here. It was not all that widespread. RDU got .2.

For today NWS says Today: Sunny, with a high near 46. West wind between 9 and 13 mph.
Tonight: Clear, with a low around 21. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Discussion:

SYNOPSIS…HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD EAST AND OVER THE AREA TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY. BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THIS PERIOD. A MODERATION IN TEMPERATURES WILL OCCUR BY MIDWEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES OFFSHORE. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL COME LATE THURSDAY INTO EARLY FRIDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST.

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Sunday Weather

High wind warning throughout the area.
High of 48 and Low of 27 are predicted, but it’ll feel much colder than that.
Via NWS:

…WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 AM EST MONDAY…

WIND GUSTS UP TO AROUND 48 MPH ARE EXPECTED LATER TODAY THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

INTENSE LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE RAPIDLY UP THE MID ATLANTIC COAST TODAY AND IN ITS WAKE STRONG WESTERLY WINDS WILL USHER COLDER DRIER AIR INTO THE REGION. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH BY THIS AFTERNOON. VIGOROUS MIXING OF COLDER AIR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH WITH MAXIMUM GUSTS TO AROUND 48 MPH LIKELY BETWEEN 2 PM AND 10 PM ACROSS THE AREA. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY MORNING.

THE STRONG WINDS AND COLD AIR WILL ALSO SEND WIND CHILL READINGS DOWN INTO THE TEENS TO AROUND 20 DEGREES TONIGHT. EXTRA LAYERS OF CLOTHING ARE ADVISED FOR ANYBODY VENTURING OUTDOORS THIS EVENING.

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Saturday Weather

Windy.
Rain is moving in.
DIABATIC COOLING, too. High of 43 today. Not much colder tonight.
NWS:

Today: Occasional rain, mainly after 1pm. High near 43. East wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight: Periods of rain. Low around 41. North wind between 3 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Discussion:

SYNOPSIS…HIGH PRESSURE OVER NEW ENGLAND WILL PUSH COLDER AIR INTO CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TODAY AS A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE
SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE GULF STATES SPREADING CLOUDINESS AND RAIN OVER THE AREA LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. INTENSE LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE QUICKLY UP THE COAST AND AWAY ON SUNDAY WITH GUSTY WESTERLY WINDS IN ITS WAKE. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

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Light sleet

Careful driving this am.
Via the NWS:

AREAS OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL MOVE OVER THE REGION THROUGH MID MORNING BEFORE CHANGING TO ALL RAIN. ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH OF ICE AND SLEET MAY DEVELOP. MOST ACCUMULATIONS WILL DEVELOP ON ELEVATED SURFACES…ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES.

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‘The Little Prince’ pays a visit

When a disenchanted aviator crashes his plane in the Sahara, he is surprised to meet an ethereal visitor from a faraway star. Through the startling insights shared by this charming “Little Prince,” the aviator is reminded of what is truly important in life.

Cherished by adults and children alike, Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s classic novella The Little Prince is filled with all of the magic, exuberance and wonder of childhood.  

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Literature Reviews

By Erica Eisdorfer

The Air We Breathe

by Andrea Barrett
(Norton, 320 pages)

Andrea Barrett does what she does better than anyone else, and that is to combine hard science with beautifully wrought fiction. Barrett has the ability to ensnare her readers in a story, wrap a character around us and then fill us up with information–hard facts, made palatable. In her National Book Award-winning collection of stories, Ship Fever, she told us about the inner life of Gregor Mendel and explained his experiemnts. In The Voyage of the Narwhal, she infected her readers with the Arctic Fever common to the 19th century American and illustrated the plight of the Eskimaux. And here, in The Air We Breathe, is the tuberculosis epidemic of pre WWI America. We see the lace-like quality of a tuberculer lung illuminated by an X-ray, that technology still in its infancy. We watch as the disease progresses. And what it is that holds us still, reading quietly, are the patients themselves: Miles, the wealthy patriot, recuperating in his charming cottage and Leo, the immigrant in the public sanatorium.

The Air We Breathe examines a point in our time, when, with our nation at the cusp of war, we held our collective breath. 

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Holiday Calendar: 2007

“Holiday Spirits” – Winter Stories program includes live, instrumental music & storytelling. Thu., Dec. 6, 5 p.m. UNC Campus: Wilson Library, 201 South Rd, Chapel Hill.

Transactors Holiday Extravaganza Musical – Improv. Fri., Dec. 7, 8 p.m. $14, students $7. The ArtsCenter, 300-G E Main St, Carrboro, 929-2787, www.artscenterlive.org.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Holiday parade – The annual parade down Franklin Street to Main Street has featured bands, floats, loud cars, firetrucks and, occasionally, a trained chicken. 10 a.m. to noonÂ