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Originally Posted by slowmover
Nicely done. What were the dates of the 80-day period, and what is the date of the first and last frost for your locale? Any other relevant climate data by which to make comparisons? (or, do dawn/dusk considerations play a part?)
(For us the potential frost period is Nov 23 - Mar 9; with some as years [as this one] no frost at all; January thru first week of February constitute winter"; maybe only 10-days). A/C use is the bugabear for FE.
You "commuters" can certainly have good data to work with in re set conditions of place and time over the year.
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It's from Oct-10 unil Feb-15. It's 80 commuting days--not 80 days. Dates of potential first/last frost are before and after this time. I've had a couple mornings down below 15 deg F and those have been hard on the mileage. The "3-day average Temp" is the average of 3 mornings and 3 evenings, so mornings and evenings are grouped together. Dawn/dusk shouldn't play much of a role because pretty much all of it during that time period would have been when I driving it's still dark enough to have the lights on. Only now, in mid-Feb, is it getting light enough that I can have my lights off much.