I don't think I have ever seen a day in July in Dallas like the one we had yesterday — and I have been here for at least part of nearly every summer of my life.
At 4 p.m., the temperature was in the mid–70s, which is roughly where it was all day. The day was overcast, and we had a light but steady rain.
My air conditioning never came on once all day. In July, that's practically unheard of.
Today is supposed to be warmer — but only into the low 80s, then they say it will be around 87° tomorrow so it is possible my air conditioning won't run today and may not run very much tomorrow. More summerlike temperatures will return to the area on Wednesday, they say, but even those temperatures won't be as high as the ones we were coping with last week.
This morning's meter reading is between 10143 and 10144. Yesterday's reading was 10133. Considering how mild it was, I hoped my electricity consumption would be in single digits. It didn't miss by much. My usage was 10½ kWh. My usage in the previous 24 hours was 33 kWh, so consumption went down by a whopping 68%!
Last year on this date, consumption was 27 kWh so my usage for the date is down 61%.
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