# Have you turned on your heat yet?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 10, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654 "2010-10-10T02:25:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/61 "2010-10-10T22:36:13Z")
I haven’t closed my _windows_ yet. I can’t see my breath.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/62 "2010-10-10T22:37:41Z")
No, but we’re using the AC slightly less.
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/63 "2010-10-10T23:51:01Z")
Sacramento, CA
We’ve had the windows open all day. The AC actually kicked on a few minutes ago, but I turned it off. It’s 79 degrees in the hallway where the thermostat is.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/64 "2010-10-10T23:54:38Z")
I have not turned on the actual heat, but I have been using my little portable heater. But I tend to use it all year. If only I wasn’t the only person in my house who gets cold so easily. I blame my medicines.
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### Author:  [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/65 "2010-10-11T00:04:39Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#):
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> > [@Precambrianmollusc](#):
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> > Jelous of enipla with the snow - the tops of the ski hills here have a light dusting and really hoping not to repeat last years slow start to the skiing.
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> Tell me about it. I work at a ski resort – from my location, if you ski, you know which one.
Your location says “in the mountains” which doesn’t narrow it down much for a ski resort 🙂 Snowbird/Alta or Deer Valley?
We are all set with season passes for The Canyons, I said last year I wouldn’t but they rejigged the lifts and it will now take less than about 15 lift runs to get to the top.
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/66 "2010-10-11T00:39:36Z")
Suburb of Minneapolis. Today was 80F. Sun is down and it’s still 68F. Have all the windows open. We did have a coldish snap a few weeks ago, highs in the 50s, but that was still not enough to flip the furnace switch. Even when it is on, I tend to have it set at 65F, even in te dead of winter. Our furnace is original to the house (1946), and while it kick out heat very well, it’s not energy (or pocketbook) friendly.
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### Author:  [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/67 "2010-10-11T00:40:26Z")
I never actually turn it on myself. The building seems to turn it on all by itself. Then again, it can be -10c outside, I’ll still want to open a window and yet the radiators are hardly warm. The magic of decent insulation and a flat above and below.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/68 "2010-10-11T00:55:38Z")
I forgot – I set that ages ago, but I’d mentioned Idaho back in the thread. Sun Valley, to be more precise. It’s so damn pretty here.
I can’t wait for our first snow. I like winter. People think that’s weird. Fine by me.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/69 "2010-10-11T00:56:23Z")
Nope, although we’ve had some chilly days and some cold overnight temps.
I had hot soup and wore a sweater on August 23 (I was so struck by the perverse weather I noted it on my calendar), so it’s not like I’m not feeling the chill. I’m just really cheap (okay, try skinflint) and eco-conscious (and I’ve already invested in a bunch of cashmeres, a really warm bathrobe, sweatpants, down bedding, etc.), so I tough it out and save money/save the earth.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/70 "2010-10-11T01:05:27Z")
The AC kicked itself on earlier today, but I turned it off because it really was quite a nice day.
I will be very surprised if the heat gets turned on before Thanksgiving.
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/71 "2010-10-11T01:14:21Z")
About an hour ago. After spending this cool, rainy day with a fleece jacket on, I looked at the thermometer on my kitchen wall and realized that it was 62° _inside_, not outside.
It is supposed to get down to freezing on Tuesday night. It was in the 80’s last week and over 90 the week before that. Nice to see the snow in the mountains for the first time this season.
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### Author:  [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/72 "2010-10-11T01:17:42Z")
Not yet. It was 88 degrees here in west central Indiana yesterday and today. We did drop to 32 degrees in the early hours of Monday and Tuesday of last week, with frost. But, the house stayed unusually warm. I don’t know why that is, but I’m not going to complain. We’ve had the a/c on again since last Friday.
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### Author:  [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/73 "2010-10-11T01:22:54Z")
I still keep my bedroom window open all day. The heat wont be coming on for a couple months.
Denver area… the lows have been in the 40s recently.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/74 "2010-10-11T11:50:24Z")
We’ve had a few nights when it dropped into the 40s - I closed most of the windows, but that was it. Later this week, our furnace guy is coming over to do the annual maintenance/service check. Since we keep the house at 66 most of the winter, it’s going to be a while before we have to turn the heat on.
Chances are we’ll have our electric blankets on the beds before the furnace comes on regularly.
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### Author:  [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/75 "2010-10-11T11:58:51Z")
> [@Ximenean](#):
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> London outskirts, UK. Within the last few weeks it has become necessary to heat the place in the evenings and mornings. It’s on a thermostat, and only seems to be actively pumping out heat for about an hour each morning/evening. Daytime max in October drops to something like 60F, overnight lows in the upper 40s F.
Pussy! London resident here who hasn’t yet turned her heating on.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/76 "2010-10-11T12:28:27Z")
Seville, Spain and hell no. We’re having lows about 19ºC and highs around 29ºC, which is close to my notion of ideal temperatures. Houses in this area weren’t even built with heaters until A/C started becoming common in Spain a few years ago; my heating is a heat pump (heats or cools as needed).
I’ve put away the sundresses and sleeveless tops and brought out the light comforter and the sneakers.
In my house in northern Spain the notion of A/C gives people cold headaches; I have pictures there of my car with snow on it taken in July and in August. So that’s a location where the (gasoil when I bought it, piped-in gas now) heater could come in at any time as needed.
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### Author:  [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/77 "2010-10-11T13:19:26Z")
SE Michigan, left my air conditioner on last time I was home. (Now in the market for Ethernet thermostats that let me overcome a tolerance for forgetting.)
Mexico City, it gets cold at night, and still gets somewhat hot during the day, so within any given 24 hour period, I’ll run the heater and the air conditioner!
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### Author:  [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/78 "2010-10-11T13:37:09Z")
Baghdad, right now, but the wife is in Ankara. She says they turned on the heating in the complex last week. Altitude 1000m. highs in low 20s during the day.
Here (about same altitude) it is just starting to become bearable during the day and comfortable at night. (outdoors). Indoors is A/C 24/7, blankets also.
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/79 "2010-10-11T17:50:15Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#):
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> Columbus, OH. We turned it on for one night last week when it dropped to the low 40s overnight. Then I turned it back off again when the temp started to rise. It’s 86 F outside today. I’m more tempted to turn on the A/C then I am to turn on the heat.
Apparently, Columbus OH is the new way of saying “DFW, TX.” 😃 Although it’s not quite that warm today, and we mostly turned on the heat last week to make sure it was working.
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### Author:  [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-turned-on-your-heat-yet/556654/80 "2010-10-11T17:53:56Z")
It was almost 90 yesterday in Los Angeles. We turned the AC on instead.
Probably won’t turn on the heat until November
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