What does "Yesterday's Heating Degree Days" mean?

[Chaotic42]

Link

Anyone know?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Where do you see that on the page?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

For j00

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Link

Anyone know?

65 - (Low temp + High Temp) / 2

 

[b0mbrman]

Think about it as Degree x Days the way we measure a crew's work in man x hours...

It doesn't mean anything in the natural world. It's just an arbitrary way to standardize the count of how much heating you should have done during a day (or month, season, etc.)

Assumes a couple things: first that 65° is the temperature you'd keep your thermostat at and that (Low + High)/2 correctly represents the average temperature.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
For j00

Awesome, thanks.