I don't know if the temperature ever reached the forecast high of 101° yesterday — but I do know the temperature at noon was 2 degrees warmer than it was at the same time Tuesday. It was 100° at 8 last night.
And it was 86° when I got up this morning.
What's more, my air conditioning (which was set around 85°) kicked on yesterday morning when I was getting ready to go to school.
It is safe to say I expected an increase in my electricity usage. And I was right.
This morning's meter reading is between 10037 and 10038. Yesterday's reading was 10004 so consumption was 33½ kWh. That's an increase of nearly 20% over my consumption in the previous 24 hours.
Consumption on this date a year ago was 29 kWh — but, based on my blog entry, the temperature was at least 6 or 7 degrees lower than it was yesterday. Anyway, my consumption for July 11 this year is nearly 16% higher than it was a year ago.
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