Cooling/Heating Degrees for selected locations

[bubba]

Heating and Cooling degrees are a good measure of climate.To calculate,you take your locations High and Low and divide.This number constitutes your average temperature for the day.To compute Cooling/Heating degrees, you take your locations average and add or subtract from 65F.Accordingly,if your average temperature was 70F.the Cooling degrees would be 5 for that particular day.Correspondingly, if the average temperature of a given day is 60F.,the Heating days would be 5.

For the first 10 days of December, the numbers are as follows:

Texas-Brownsville;C-72,H-11;Harligen;C-89,H-14;McAllen;C-102,H-16;Laredo;C-85;H-8

Florida-Key West-C-121,H-0;Miami-C-115,H-0;Ft.Laud.-C-110;H-0;Naples-C-81,H-14;West Palm-C-77;H-2

California-Los Angeles-C-0;H-72;Palm Springs-C-0,H-91

Arizona-Phoenix-C-0;H-0

Louisiana-New Orleans-C-41;H-47

The coolness in the West can be seen in these numbers and the heat in Texas can be seen also. It has been a very warm time also for Louisiana and Florida,although Florida's numbers are fairly close to average.This,of course, is subject to change at any second when the first Blue Northeaster comes blowing down from the Artic.

[bubba]

Phoenix,Arizona-C-0;H-65.