The NOAA report looks fine, but one thing puzzles me. Why does the daily cool degree days always read zero!
Have a look at the link below and you will see what I mean.
you are not in a cold enough climate me thinks, but someone more knowlegdable on this can enlighten us (i cant remember the formula off the top of my head, but a search on google.com will most likely give you the answer
When the average daily temp. is under 65 than you have heating degree days, when the average temp is over 65 you have cooling degree days. Your temps are too cool to be using cooling degree days. I am referering to 65F
ah, it works opposite to what you would think then…
its to do with heating a house i think
i.e if you have a high number for heat degree days, then there is alot of time where you need to heat to get to room temperature…
and so cooling degree days is where you need to use air conditioning to cool the temperature to room temperature (21oC or so)
is that about the jist of it?
Thats it. The more heating degrees you have the more heat you need. The fuel oil companies keep track of heating degree days to know when you need an automatic oil delivery.
Thanks for that, I know what you mean now. So in summer, when the outside temperature goes beyond 65F, that’s when those data readings flag up, and I assume the heating degrees change to zero instead