If you live in a real building built before WWII but with modern insulation in the roof, it holds heat, and if you're on a high floor, your neighbors' heat wafts up to you. We got our first freeze last night and the temperature only dropped to 61 in the condo. It's 64 now even though the high was 49 today.
Last year in StL we broke down and turned the heat on right after Thanksgiving.
In Mississippi and North Carolina, where we mostly lived in wasteful, balloon-construction suburban-style single-family homes, we turned the heat or usually the gas log on earlier, despite the fact that the cold weather starts later there. So a lot has to do with the dwelling.
But a lot also has to do with the fact that you can always put something on, but there's nothing you can do in hot weather to combat the heat except lie still. In the a/c. I don't cut the heat on until I have to because it's nasty hot air that breeds nasty germs in the ducts and I get a respiratory thing every year when they turn it on in the buildings.
That said, I can't remember a year in MS/GA/NC where I didn't run the a/c at least once in December or February, and once in a while in January. Again, probably because of the crappy suburban architecture. And the humidity. Air conditioners dehumidify.
I suspect we'll be OK until TG again this year. One reason is there are so many things in your house that give off heat. Shower, TV, lamps, stove, oven, dryer. That stuff is enough to heat a mildly cold room when it's above 40 outside all by itself.
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