Hot, muggy and the basic, delicious chocolate cake recipe

Good Morning Augusta

This morning it's partly cloudy with a 50% chance of showers this afternoon showers or thunderstorms. High 89ºF. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain

Tonight we'll have partly cloudy skies with A stray shower or thunderstorm possible. Low 69ºF. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Humidity is 64%, the dew point is 62.6ºF and outside it's  ºF75.3.

The wind direction is  North Northwest between 3.4 MPH and 4.9 MPH, with a heat index of 77ºF.

The Barometric pressure is 29.78 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

The UV rating is 1 out of 16, Sunrise is 4:54 a.m. Sunset is 8:23 P.M. Moon rise is 10:38 p.m., Moon set is 7:38 p.m., and the moon phase is waning gibbous being 92% illuminated.

The RAW METAR reading from Augusta's airport this morning is:

METAR KAUG 121053Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 22/17 A2994 RMK AO2 SLP136 T02220167

Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with clear and very  sunny skies.

We didn't receive any rain over the past 24 hours.

Space Weather for this morning is:

Today's Solar flux is 77, the solar wind speed is 436 Kilometers per second and the chance of a solar storm is 1%.

Yesterday was a zucchini cake recipe, so today's will be the basic, old-fashioned run-of-the-mill chocolate cake. Enjoy.

QUICK AND EASY MOIST CHOCOLATE CAKE

2 ½ cups flour

2 cups sugar

2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

⅔ cup cocoa

⅔ cup salad oil

2 cups water

2 tsp. vinegar

2 tsp. vanilla

Directions:

1.         Sift dry ingredients into bowl.

2.         Add liquid ingredients; mix well.  Batter will be thin.

3.         Pour into two greased round cake pans, or one 13"x9" pan; bake about 30-35 minutes

4.         For an angel food cake pan bake about 55 minutes.  Check with toothpick or cake tester.

Last, frost it with frosting of your choice.