Heat Advisory issued June 25 at 2:54AM EDT until June 25 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Heat index values of 100 to 104.
* WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Indiana, northeast and northern Kentucky, and central, south central, southwest, and west central Ohio.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Consecutive days of high heat and humidity can be especially hazardous as warm overnight temperatures will provide little relief.
Today 90° Today 90° chance 74° 74° chance Tomorrow 90° Tomorrow 90° likely 74° 74° likely chance
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Friday, December 12th, 2014
Poinsettias brighten the season
Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

Anna Bowers, hardware manager at Menard's in Celina, waters a row of poinsettia plants on Thursday morning. Today is National Poinsettia Day, which marks the death of Joel Roberts Poinsett, an American botanist, physician and minister to Mexico. In 1828, he sent cuttings of the plant he'd discovered in Southern Mexico to his home in Charleston, S.C.

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