Who the hell wouldn't prefer a nice 80 degree day?

Call us up if you think you're using more fuel oil this year even though the degree days are the same.

The second way is to track growing degree days.

A degree day is a measure of heating or cooling.

The industry measures heating requirements with a figure called degree days.

The early part of the last heating season was also cold, with 1,501 degree days by Dec. 21.

"If the value is 70, there were five cooling degree days."

Many insects have had their development cycles modeled in terms of degree days.

Cooling degree days are also measured by the difference between the average temperature and 65 degrees.

So, for example, a day with a low of 30 and high of 50 would equal 25 degree days.