NOAA has just released the May numbers for Heating Degree Days. Although officially the season goes through June, unless we get some serious frost in the next week, in South Eastern Pennsylvania it's been the mildest heating season since records began in 1895.
4,298 Heating Degree days, compared to an average of 5,245 or the record coldest of 6,180 in 1904. And there I was impressed with all my air-sealing and re-insulating, thinking I had done a great job of cutting down my heating bills...
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/time-series/index.php?parameter=hdd
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4,298 Heating Degree days, compared to an average of 5,245 or the record coldest of 6,180 in 1904. And there I was impressed with all my air-sealing and re-insulating, thinking I had done a great job of cutting down my heating bills...
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/time-series/index.php?parameter=hdd
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