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Wind Advisory issued October 19 at 5:16AM EDT until October 19 at 12:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

* WHAT...Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.
* WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Indiana, northeast and northern Kentucky, and central, south central, southwest, and west central Ohio.
* WHEN...Until noon EDT today.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Gusts of 30 to 40 mph will be common, but the highest gusts near 50 mph will be sporadic. Gusts will decrease behind a cold front that will move through the area this morning.

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Photo by Shelley Grieshop/The Daily Standard

Jill Bowers, St. Marys, shows a hatched monarch butterfly and several unhatched ones still in their chrysalises clinging to the screen covering her backyard aquarium. Each summer, Bowers gathers milkweed leaves and monarch caterpillar eggs and nurtures them until they change into butterflies.

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