#MEwx Warmer with rain ending and some snappy winds - Chocolate Cream Pound Cake

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Good morning Augusta

We're under a wind advisory this morning for some pretty snappy wind. Don't ignore it, make sure your generator is ready to run. The advisory is in the post preceding this one.

This morning we have fog which has mostly moved out already. It's cloudy with rain and a chance for freezing rain, then partly sunny this afternoon. Ice accumulation around a trace. Highs in the mid 40s. Southeast winds around 10 mph, becoming southwest with gusting to 35/50 mph this afternoon.

Tonight we'll have mostly clear skies, becoming partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows around 12°F. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Wind chill values as low as -1°F after midnight.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

The Wind Chill is 34°F, Dew Point is 33.3°F, the humidity is 97%, and the outdoor temp is 34°F.

The wind direction is Southwest between 2.5 MPH and 4.9 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.72, the Absolute pressure is 29.52 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with low-hanging cloud cover at the moment, but it's moving out.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is 6:48 A.M., Sunset is 4:58 P.M., Moonrise is 8:49 A.M., Moonset is 8:42 P.M. and the moon phase is waxing crescent.

Augusta's RAW METAR readings are:

SPECI KAUG 081219Z AUTO 27003KT 1/4SM FG VV003 00/00 A2980 RMK AO2 UPB00E10 P0000 T00000000

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

If you bake this one in the shape of a heart with red frosting on it…

CHOCOLATE CREAM POUND CAKE

1 cup heavy cream

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 ½ cup all-purpose flour

1 cup sugar

¼ cup unsweetened cocoa

2 tsp. baking powder

¾ tsp. salt

Preheat oven to 350⁰

Butter and sugar-dust a 9"x5"x3" loaf pan

  1. In a mixing bowl, beat cream until stiff.
  2. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
  3. Sift remaining ingredients together into cream mixture; stir to blend thoroughly.
  4. Pour batter into the loaf pan.
  5. Bake for 55 minutes or until cake just begins to pull away from edge of pan.
  6. Cool in pan 10 minutes.
  7. Turn out on rack to cool, or slice and serve warm (with ice cream!).

 

Cake will stay fresh and moist for as long as a week if wrapped in airtight container after thoroughly cooled.

 

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