#MEwx Rainy, warm and how to make Strawberries Romanoff

Good morning Augusta

The Red Sox aren’t playing tonight. We are now 41 and 35. 

A direct, real-time feed from my personal weather station is available for you here.

This morning it’s rainy, then showers likely this afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy skies with lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds around 10 mph gusting to 25 mph this evening.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 61.7°F, the humidity is 98% and the Dew Point is °F.

The wind direction is North Northeast between 6.5 MPH and 9.8 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.41, the Absolute pressure is 29.21 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with mostly cloudy skies to 6,000 ft / 1,828 m and mostly cloudy to 7500 ft / 2,286 m.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is 4:54 AM, Sunset is 8:26 PM, Moonrise is 11:38 PM,  Moonset is 8:49 AM  and the moon phase is waning Gibbous. 

The RAW METAR readings at the airport in Augusta are:

The airport at Augusta isn’t reporting any METAR readings this morning. It is not know if they will resume reporting METAR.

We received 0.60 inches of rain here over the past 24 hours.

This dessert can be made for kids or adults. Either way it is delicious.

Strawberries Romanoff

(This version for when kids are around)

1 quart fresh whipping cream

2 quarts fresh cleaned and sliced strawberries

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup strawberry Schnapps

1/4 cup white chocolate shavings

First, heat up the Schnapps and reduce to one half cup.  This cooks out the

alcohol and concentrates the flavor.  After it has cooled, add the

strawberry slices and let set a couple of minutes.  Meanwhile, whip up the

cream in a medium bowl with the sugar until you have stiff peaks.  Slowly

fold in the berries and juice then ladle into individual glass serving cups

and top with some white chocolate shavings. 

 

For Adults.

Repeat the above with the following exceptions;

 

Do not cook down the Schnapps, simply warm it up a little. This will retain the natural alcohol content.

Next, soften up a half gallon of French Vanilla ice cream and whip it together with the whipped cream mentioned above in the children’s version. After well- mixed to “stiff peaks”, begin to layer into a large bowl the Strawberry mix on successive layers of ice cream/whipped cream, then sprinkle shaved white and dark chocolate on top.  

 

(this is NOT what one would call a “healthy” dessert. But who cares!)