Post Your Temperature and Windspeed

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Tue. Jan. 07, 2014 8:15 pm

High of 8*today & WINDY ,currently 5* breezy, HOW MUCH WOOD DID WE USE ?????? we have never loaded that much in 24 hrs.B4 ,But we kept warm without liquid heat !!!!!

Horace · Post by **Horace** » Tue. Jan. 07, 2014 9:01 pm

lsayre wrote:The other problem I see is that I'm using "daily" HDD's data (which I assume are compiled for spans ranging from midnight one day to midnight the next), but I feed the stove generally at around 6:00 PM each day after I've gotten home from work, had dinner, taken care of the chickens, etc... (boiler feeding was at 7:30 PM today) so I'm not on a boiler feeding cycle that coincides very well at all with my HDD's data on a strictly day by day basis, but as I spread this over several days of HDD's it always smooths things out between HDD's and consumption.

I had that thought, too, so I try to reload and take readings as close to midnight as possible. You could always pull the data from your source and compile it yourself. The Wunderground weather station where I pull my data posts both midnight-to-midnight averages (which I use), as well as every-five-minutes data. Use a DateDiff to get your own averages.

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Tue. Jan. 07, 2014 9:07 pm

Horace wrote:I had that thought, too, so I try to reload and take readings as close to midnight as possible. You could always pull the data from your source and compile it yourself. The Wunderground weather station where I pull my data posts both midnight-to-midnight averages (which I use), as well as every-five-minutes data. Use a DateDiff to get your own averages.

Thanks! I'll have to study that! But since I generally get a pretty good fit to HDD's as they are coming to me now (the easy way), as long as I'm looking at consumption vs. HDD's over a span of several days I'm generally happy with things as they are right now.

DePippo79 · Post by **DePippo79** » Tue. Jan. 07, 2014 10:21 pm

Hampton, NH
As of 1/7 @ 2200.
7 deg. feels like minus 9.
WSW 12 mph.

Horace · Post by **Horace** » Tue. Jan. 07, 2014 11:10 pm

lsayre wrote: But since I generally get a pretty good fit to HDD's as they are coming to me now (the easy way), as long as I'm looking at consumption vs. HDD's over a span of several days I'm generally happy with things as they are right now.

You wrote that in your previous post, too, and I missed it. If you're happy with how it is, I wouldn't change it. I do it the easy way, too, and just stay up a little later. Even if I do check mine a little early, I figure it works out in the wash. Sorry for making things overly complicated.

Balmy 6.3* here. No wind to speak of. Burned 63 pounds over the past 24 hours - a new all-time record. Oddly enough, we'll have had 63 HDD as well. Funny how that worked out. Didn't blow my ratio.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Tue. Jan. 07, 2014 11:15 pm

We started off today at 5° ... and then global warming kicked in big time, and the temperature SOARED ..... to 8° .......

wilder11354 · Post by **wilder11354** » Tue. Jan. 07, 2014 11:19 pm

temp at 6:30AM was minus 11* , high for the day was 2*. boilers been working hard had 69* inside this morning. Right now its 67* in house 11PM. Tomorrow highs should be about 10* so heat in house should get back to its normal 70*. Been feeding the boiler 3 times a day morning 545AM, late afternoon 130, and late night 11Pm. Good thin is this won't last long.. hind sight.. maybe I need another baseboard or two in house for 0 > minus 0 winters. Or.. work on putting an enclosed foundation under house.

009to090 · Post by **009to090** » Wed. Jan. 08, 2014 4:10 am

currently 15f outside, with no wind. Dang, that feels downright balmy after yesterdays wind.

A toasty 72f inside.

Spent about 4 hours yesterday thawing out my water pipes under the crawl space. Got er thawed out, and found one geyser. A small section of pipe going thru a stone wall was still copper, and it split.... right in the middle of the stone wall

impossible place to solder back together. Had to disconnect both ends, pull it thru one end, cut out split, add coupling, slide back into stone wall, reconnect both ends.. all on my belly and elbows. I hate crawl spaces...

Carbon12 · Post by **Carbon12** » Wed. Jan. 08, 2014 6:14 am

8 degrees outside. 72 inside

lowfog01 · Post by **lowfog01** » Wed. Jan. 08, 2014 7:18 am

Good morning! It's 5* out at 7:00 with no wind chill. Wahoo! I'm been sitting on the bus for an hour. I was lucky to have my bus start right up. There a lot of other drivers weren't as lucky and they are sitting in their cars waiting for the mechanic. Baby, it's cold out here!

It sure was hard to leave the house this morning. The stoves were humming along and the house was an amazing 76*. Yes, I'm still amazed at the fact black rocks can be burned and heat the house for so little. Stay warm, have a great day, Lisa

Post by **dcrane** » Wed. Jan. 08, 2014 7:21 am

flippin' COLD, and freekin' windy!!! ... ""I'm Givin' Her All She's Got, Captain!"!

Carbon12 · Post by **Carbon12** » Wed. Jan. 08, 2014 7:27 am

I hope you're not running cheap, imported, dilithium crystals

lowfog01 · Post by **lowfog01** » Wed. Jan. 08, 2014 7:43 am

bummer! My bus developed an oil leak while I waiting. Now I'll find out how cold 5* is - the mechanics are running an hour or more behind. Lisa

Post by **Lightning** » Wed. Jan. 08, 2014 10:03 am

Got to -2 last night.. Now a warm trend is on the way..
45+ degrees for Saturday.

Horace · Post by **Horace** » Wed. Jan. 08, 2014 10:15 am

Low for last night was 5.4*. We're heading up to a tropical 25* today. Forecast for the 40s with rain over the weekend.

This is now the coldest season so far that I have on record. Somehow, though, I'm burning a LOT less coal.

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Usage for the past 5 days. This is HDD, Coal Used, and, just for fun, wind gusts.

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