It's starting ...

And, fwiw, here in the northeast, we are in a major heat wave.

Too early in the season for this to occur, but there it is.

Back in the mid-80's when I decided to control the climate within my house, I determined that 24,000BTU of air-conditioning would be cool, so to speak.

Fast forward, 40 years later ...

Today, the air-conditioning can keep up with maintaining the house at 80 degrees, with a dew point in the mid-50's. But the compressor runs nearly 100% of the time.

Quite the change from 40 years ago when I had asked myself if I had over-estimated the amount of cooling I needed for the house, because the compressor back then ran less than 50% of the time.

What has changed in the past 40 years?

@#2 ... Just for an anecdotal laugh ...

Yeah, but is a single occurrence a trend?

I've been seeing a trend here.

And, speaking of snow ...

Back in the day I bought a 10-horse power snow blower to clear my driveway and sidewalks.

@#4 ... No. It' not even all that unusual, ...

On the other hand, two winters in a row, without having to use the snow blower to clear the driveway and sideways is quite unusual here.

I had previously needed to use the snow blower multiple times per winter.

But, these past two winters ... the snow blower just sat idle.