#MEwx Light snow, clouds, colder and Chocolate Cream Pound Cake

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Good morning Augusta.

I've put up an Ambient WS 5000 weather station where you can view real time weather readings from my location online by clicking here.

This morning we have snow with little or no accumulation. Highs in the mid 20s with Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph gusting to 25 mph.

Tonight we'll have mostly clear conditions during evening hours, becoming partly cloudy. Colder with lows around 0°F. Winds will be Northwest around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.

We received slightly less than one inch  of snow here over the past 24 hours.

The  wind is Northeast between  2.0 MPH and 3.1 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.86, the Absolute pressure is 29.66 and rising with a weather graphic indicating clouds.

Augusta's humidity is 95%, the  outdoor temperature is 21.2°F, the dew point is 20.0°F and the wind chill is 21.2°F.  

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with clouds.

The UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is W/m2 (sun is not yet up). The moon is waxing gibbous and is 76.3% illuminated.

Sunrise is 6:58 AM, sunset is 4:47 PM, moonrise is 12:04 PM and Moonset is 3:26 AM. We'll have 9 hours 48 minutes of daylight today. The next Full Moon is on February 5, 2023 with our next new moon being on February 20.

 

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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