Yay! Another good feature for mine is the controller is the same for my electric blanket, so I can move the plug to whichever one I feel like. They say not to use both at once but I am tempted to lie like a piece of toast.
I live in Arizona. It does get cold here (in some parts it gets quite cold and even snows), but right now it’s still AC time. It still gets hot enough in the day to need the air conditioning. Usually, my experience has been (since I’ve lived in central Arizona for the last 26 years) that it doesn’t get cold enough to need a heater until about end of October/middle November…although end of October (like the 31st, when I sit outside and hand out candy to trick or treaters), is comfortable enough to not need the AC anymore.
Turning the heat back on tonight after a gorgeous weekend in the 80s. I think the high today was 61F.
I am morbidly obese, therefore I seldomly get cold. I usually don’t turn on the heat until a few days before Christmas.
The Autumnal equinox came and, as usual, it was like someone flipped a switch. While it didn’t cool to any great degree, it did cool a little and it’s been wetter. Monday night the SO mentioned that if I wanted to light the heater it would be OK with her. Tried. Failed.
The heater was put in a year or so before I bought this house, so it’s been at least a dozen years without being serviced. The heater guy came this morning and replaced a leaky flex pipe. He replaced a couple of wires whose insulation had melted. And he cleaned and vacuumed the innards. Now that the pilot light is lit, the SO will be using the heater until late-Spring. Me? This early in the season I just put on a sweater. (Still wearing shorts, though. It’s good to telecommute! 
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If Wisconsin counts as North, no. I’m still running my AC sometimes.
New Hampshire here. Just shut the windows so far. Don’t expect heat to be turned on for another 3 weeks or so.
Then we go thru a cycle. At first just give the house a warm up blast in the late afternoon and then turn off again. That will work for another month or so. Then the heat will be on for the season.
Expect a brutal winter folks, been sensing that since mid July this year.
We’ve now been having a beautiful Indian summer here in Michigan and it’s been positively balmy for the last couple of weeks with overnight lows barely dipping into the 40s. So my heat has been mostly off, and my most recent utility bill (which covered several cool, damp nights in early September when it came on) was $72.00.
I agree with davida (and the Farmers’ Almanac) - I think we are in for another hard winter. Dammit.
Northern Illinois will be in the 30’s overnight this weekend so yeah, unfortunately prolly friday night. Sad.
Just outside Boston, and the bedroom window is still open. Nothing in the 10 day forecast indicates that it’s going to close anytime soon, the lowest number I see is mid-40s. If anything, I was really happy when it dropped back into the 60s this week - I play flag football on Sunday mornings this time of year and we were pushing 90 over the weekend, which is not really fun.
In the DC area. We’ve turned it on occasionally overnight if my wife feels chilly, though it still has barely gotten below 60.
A couple times. I live in South WI and it’s just so darn cold here! :eek::mad:
I bought my pellets for my pellet stove. It’ll be a while before I need it, but I like to have plenty of hay in the barn and wood in the shed before summer really ends in the South.
StG
Indiana here, and we’ve been battling, like, our 6th cold/flu thing since May. I have had both the A/C AND the heat on in the same 24 hr period. Gahh! Today’s temps were something like the low was 39F and the high was 73F.
Probably after this weekend the heat setting will be on for good.
It was 36 this morning at 7:00. And I slept with the windows open, so it’s chilly in the house, but not chilly enough to warrant lighting the pellet stove.
StG
No- we are 30 miles south of the BC border, and have had the woodstove going three evenings. 6 month old pup is a good foot warmer.
@JohnnyLA- only 1/2 cord? We go through about 4, other side of the water. But then, wood for us is way less costly than propane.
I like it about 60. When the grandbabies are over I turn it up to 70, or be sure and have the stove going. A little fan nearby sends the warm air to much of the house. Husband no longer has his former cold tolerance (f’petessake he used to sleep with a window open ON THE NORTH SLOPE) and is wearing his winter jammies.
I forgot. Are you on an island, or on the peninsula? (‘30 mile south’ made me thing B’ham, but if you’re on the other side of the water I guess not.)
We’ll see how long the wood lasts. I’m guessing we went through less than a cord last year, burning about half of the bought cord at the end. It was a lot of work stacking the wood. But I had to make a place for the three stacks by putting down gravel and laying pavers – and I had to wait for pavers to appear at the hardware store. That was heavy work. Then there was loading up the wheelbarrow I-don’t-know-how-many times and moving the wood from where it was dumped in the driveway to the back and stacking it. Should be easier next time, since I don’t have to build a ‘pad’ to put it on.
It was 57F indoors this morning, so I broke down and turned the furnace on. I also was smart enough to take allergy meds to help negate the misery of the six months of accumulated dust that is now being blown around.
I must say, for a furnace built in 1946 it can still move air very well.
It’s still fairly warm, (for Seattle) but, this morning hubby looked longingly at the thermostat, then went in and put on more clothes. 
Now that the heater has been serviced and the pilot light is lit…
We still haven’t used the heater.