#MEwx Rain, slightly cooler and cheesecake cookies with chocolate hips

Good morning Augusta

The Red Sox didn't play last night. Tonight we play the Orioles at 7:10 at home. We're 64 and 59.

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

This morning we have mostly cloudy skies with a chance for showers and isolated thunderstorms, turning partly sunny this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Light and variable

winds, becoming south around 10 mph this afternoon. 

Tonight we'll have partly cloudy skies this evening, becoming cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows around 60 with light and variable winds.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 60.3°F, the humidity is 99% and the Dew Point is 60.1°F.

The wind direction is Northwest between 0.0 MPH and 0.1 MPH. 

The Relative pressure is 30.04, the Absolute pressure is 29.84 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

Visibility is 1.8 Miles / 2.8 Kilometers with Clouds to 6,000 ft / 1,828 m, mostly cloudy to 9,000 ft / 2,743 m and overcast skies to 11,000 ft / 3,352 m.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is 5:43 AM, Sunset is 7:42 PM, Moonrise is 8:39 PM,  Moonset is 6:31 AM  and tonight we have a full moon.

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

The RAW METAR reading from Augusta's airport is:

SPECI KAUG 161129Z AUTO 00000KT 1 3/4SM RA BR FEW060 BKN090 OVC110 16/16 A3011 RMK AO2 P0007 T01610156

It's rainy outside today, so stay inside and bake some slightly different chocolate chip cookies.

CREAM CHEESE CAKE MIX COOKIES (Oh yeah, Good!)

1 box cake mix, any flavor

8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature

¼ cup butter, room temperature (margarine is okay)

1 large egg

1 tsp. vanilla (optional, depending on cake mix flavor; substitute accordingly)

1 cup any add-ins (flavored chips, candy, nuts, etc.).  Amounts can be varied according to taste.

          For chocolate chip cookies, you might need a 12 oz. bag of chocolate chips.

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 375⁰.  Cream together butter and cream cheese.  Add egg and vanilla; mix until well blended. 

Stir in cake mix a little at a time until it's all blended.  Add any add-ins you like, chocolate chips?

Spoon onto a cookie sheet (line with parchment or foil), and bake for about 10 min. until edges are brown.  Cookie tops will feel soft but the inside should be almost dry with a good crumb.

Makes about 4 dozen cookies without snitching.