#MEwx Warming temps, melting and a dragon egg/yellow cake recipe

Good morning Augusta

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

here.

This morning it's partly sunny with Highs in the mid 40s. Winds will be Northwest 10 to 15 mph gusting to 25 mph.

Tonight it will be mostly clear with lows around 30°F. Winds will be West 10 to 15 mph during evening hours, becoming light and variable.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 40.5°F, the humidity is 57%, the dew point is 26.4°F and our wind chill is 35.4°F.

The wind direction is West Northwest between 7.6 MPH and 9.8 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.48, the Absolute pressure is 29.28 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun. Other than that, it's flat lined.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles with sunny skies.

The UV rating is 1 out of 16, The moon is 84.1% illuminated, the moon phase is waning gibbous, Sunrise is 6:01 am 77° East, Sunset is 7:19 pm 283° West, Moonrise is 11:59 pm 121° Southeast, Moonset is 8:26 am 241° Southwest and we'll have 13 hours 18 minutes of daylight today.  

We received 0.27 inches of rain/snow melt here over the past 24 hours.

Okay, if chicken eggs are not available, use some from your dragon instead.

Dragon Eggs

A really quick URL for a youtube video on how to do it is at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnOATyI-iqE

 

And, if you don't happen to have a dozen Dragon eggs for Easter, why not make this:

YELLOW CAKE

1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour

½ Tblsp. baking powder

¼ tsp. salt

½ cup milk

½ tsp. vanilla

1 stick butter, very soft

1 cup sugar

2 eggs, room temperature

Preheat oven to 350⁰.

In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, and salt.  Add milk, vanilla, softened butter, sugar, and eggs.  Stir until smooth, pour into an 8"x8" greased baking pan.

Bake 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean from middle of cake.

Frost as desired.  Sweetened whipped cream with crushed strawberries is really good as a frosting.

Options:  add chocolate chips (any size), nuts, etc.  Or split and fill with vanilla pudding, top with chocolate frosting.

This recipe can easily be doubled.  Bake in two 8" cake pans, or one 9"x13" pan.  Check baking time accordingly.