It was so warm earlier this month that I was sitting here practically naked with the fan blowing on me, thinking about turning on the air conditioner. Normally in November I'm looking at the thermostat trying to decide if I want to turn the heat up another 2 degrees, NOT wondering why it's 75 degrees in the house when the furnace hasn't run in a few days. It was warm enough to be comfortable walking around outside barefoot several days. I was even out there barefoot at midnight one night. It was down in the 60s by then 7 hours after sunset, but the ground still felt warmer than my basement floor. Then it cooled off again and this was the view from my back porch 8:00 Tuesday morning. At 9:00 it looked exactly the same, but it warmed up enough later in the morning for the snow to disappear before the sun moved around to hit it. It got up in the 60s again after that too. If I didn't check the forecast I wouldn't know from day to day if the high would be in the 70s or 30s, or somewhere in between. When I got my mid-October to mid-November utility bill this week and compared it to the last two years I wasn't surprised I used less gas. This year I used 4.1 Mcf* of gas. Last year I used 5.7 and the year before I used 5.8. That's 28%, and 29% less gas this year than for the same time period the two previous years. Has anyone else been enjoying an unseasonably warm November?
*Mcf = Thousand cubic feet.