Looks like your January count may have been accurate given your February usage. I reference this site on occasion just to see where we stand relative to previous years with respect to heating degree days. For my location, this has been the second coldest winter in the previous 10 years with only 2018 being slightly colder. Weather Data Depot: free downloads of heating & cooling degree days Oh. And I have burned one bag this season so far.
That is an intersting site, thank you. 2018/2019 was worst by far (too bad it doesn't go back to 2013 or 2014 as I believe they were the worst I've experienced since I moved to this house). And it shows in my data as I had used 218 bags by the end of February (and used 1 bag shy of 6 tons) 2017/18 is the second worst (of the entire seasons presented)and by this time I had used 201 bags. This season is following that graph pretty closely, and has just surpassed the 17/18 season so is currently showing 2nd placem but if it warms up, that could change. Neither of those years did I have a mini split, so none of my "shoulder season" heating would have been by anything other than pellet stoves.
Warm enough for "fair weather me" to go out and stick the oil tank. 90 gallons left from 216 at the start of February. More left than expected!! Only bummer is I have a 10% coupon burning a hole in me pocket and pellets to fetch. But no storage room now that the shed blew over! I suppose I could get a big tarp to cover them. $269/ton isn't a shabby deal even for meh pellets with today's prices.
Zip zilch nada for us in march! Ya caught us bb, 155 total for the season. We'll sneak back past you once the 40 gallons or so of oil is gone. Should be back to burning in a week or so.
Burned 10.5 bags in April, for a total of 167.5 so far for the year. At the beginning of April it seemed like I would use more since it was so cold. But the last two weeks have been mainly warm and getting more solar gain for heating the house during the day. I shut the P61a down for the season a couple of weeks ago but the P43 still runs some mornings - yesterday morning was the latest but most likely won't run this morning. The P61a has about 3/4 bag in the hopper, so I'll transfer that over to the main floor stove if needed. Unless things really go sideways for weather, I think the worse it will be is also using that 1/2 bag and be up to 168. Even though I haven't used the mini split at all since January, it will still be the 2nd lowest usage for a year; last year was the lowest (using the mini split most of the winter), and the winter of 2022/2023 is running about 20 bags more (didn't use the mini split - but Feb was warmer than this year).
Still burning in the mornings to take the chill off in the basement. 26 for April(22 GS - 4 TSC) 181 total so far plus 220 total gallons of oil(40+ gallons in the tank I'll need to pump out for tank removal).
