#MEwx Hot, muggy and rainy with sweet italian sausage and chicken

Good morning Augusta.

I’ve put up a new Ambient WS 5000 weather station where you can view real time readings online here.

This morning we have showers and scattered thunderstorms, then scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs around 80°F with south winds around 10 mph, becoming southwest gusting to 20 mph.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy conditions with isolated showers during evening hours, then mostly clear after midnight. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s, winds will be west around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.

We received 0.04 inches of rain over the past 24 hours and it isn’t done  raining yet.

The wind is Northeast between  2.0 MPH and 3.6 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.49, the Absolute pressure is 29.29 and falling with a weather graphic indicating rain.

The  outdoor temperature is 66.4°F, the dew point is 64.3°F, the heat index is 66.4°F and the humidity is 94%.

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with overcast and rain-pregnant skies.

The current Solar Radiation reading is 52.0W/m2, the UV Index is 0  placing the average person at no risk, the moon phase is waxing crescent and the moon is 16.9% illuminated. Sunrise is 6:02 AM, sunset is 6:20 PM, moonrise is 10:22 AM, Moonset is 9:17 PM and we’ll have 13 hours 18 minutes of daylight today.

Our next full moon will be on September 10 and the next new moon will be on September 25.

 

Let’s add some different meat to the chicken.

 

SWEET ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND CHICKEN

Serves 6

 

6 TO 8 SWEET Italian sausages (cut into bit size pieces)

1 lb chicken breast (cut into bite size pieces)

1 large onion (cut into chunks)

1 small can of mushroom pieces drained

1 clove of garlic or 1 tbsp crushed garlic

1 tbsp oregano

1 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

1 16 oz can of stewed tomatoes

Cooking spray

 

In a frying pan brown sausage in cooking spray or tbsp of olive oil for approximately 10 minutes on medium/high heat.  Remove sausage from pan and brown chicken for approximately 10 minutes.  Remove chicken from pan and add onions, peppers, mushrooms, garlic, oregano, salt and pepper to frying pan and cook for approximately 5 minutes.  Add chicken and sausage and can of tomatoes and bring to a boil.  Cover and simmer 20 minutes then bring to a boil for approximately 5 minutes.

 

Serve in bowls like a stew.

 

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