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DEGREE DAYS For Selected Cities
July
Monthly Monthly
Monthly Deviation Deviation
City Total from Norm from Last Year
Atlanta 410 -18 -75
Baltimore 333 -39 -93
Bangor 145 25 1
Baton Rouge 518 -18 -6
Birmingham 441 -18 -50
Bismarck 242 59 -72
Boise 484 199 22
Boston 294 30 -25
Bowling Green 367 -33 -83
Charleston,SC 513 1 -41
Charlotte 368 -75 -122
Cheyenne 316 180 45
Chicago 233 -26 -147
Cincinnati 282 -31 -129
Dallas 666 37 96
Des Moines 363 3 -53
Detroit 242 11 -118
Duluth 89 -5 -72
Houston 575 29 -36
Jacksonville 490 -25 -32
Kansas City 496 77 -17
Knoxville 358 -2 -86
Las Vegas 926 117 1
Lexington, KY 324 -11 -119
Lincoln, NE 434 25 -55
Little Rock 566 58 30
Los Angeles 207 71 89
Louisville 396 18 -118
Memphis 507 -39 -48
Miami 611 65 46
Milwaukee 185 -12 -152
Minneapolis 275 -3 -103
Missoula 244 123 30
Nashville 419 -24 -55
New Orleans 551 27 -24
New York 386 33 -70
Newark 385 -12 -84
Omaha 415 46 -92
Orlando 546 10 21
Philadelphia 429 66 -27
Phoenix 1019 135 49
Portland, OR 211 84 39
Saint Louis 467 8 -93
Salt Lake City 573 173 44
San Diego 162 -37 66
San Francisco 12 -8 -8
Seattle Tacoma 105 41 40
Washington 402 -63 -95
Wichita 603 95 81
Cumulative Cumulative
Deviation Deviation
City from Norm from Last Year
Atlanta -93 -241
Baltimore -119 -282
Bangor 66 22
Baton Rouge -12 -84
Birmingham 2 -186
Bismarck 25 -178
Boise 321 3
Boston 6 -83
Bowling Green -146 -263
Charleston,SC 40 -148
Charlotte -189 -350
Cheyenne 157 -98
Chicago -104 -337
Cincinnati -142 -297
Dallas 85 98
Des Moines -47 -171
Detroit -30 -258
Duluth 2 -129
Houston 325 -28
Jacksonville 94 -104
Kansas City 5 -168
Knoxville -31 -309
Las Vegas 284 -59
Lexington, KY -121 -303
Lincoln, NE -69 -315
Little Rock 0 -94
Los Angeles 49 111
Louisville -30 -355
Memphis -155 -224
Miami 388 52
Milwaukee -37 -323
Minneapolis -31 -224
Missoula 157 48
Nashville -152 -265
New Orleans 218 -95
New York -18 -240
Newark -116 -254
Omaha -50 -340
Orlando 163 4
Philadelphia 45 -193
Phoenix 324 -144
Portland, OR 165 96
Saint Louis -126 -311
Salt Lake City 323 58
San Diego -149 101
San Francisco 34 27
Seattle Tacoma 80 66
Washington -242 -371
Wichita -28 -59
Data are for cooling degree days for July 2003. Data listed
include actual monthly degree days for the specified cities;
the deviation of monthly degree days from the norm; the
deviation of the monthly degree days figure from last year's
total; the year-to-date cumulative deviation from the norm;
and the year-to-date cumulative deviation from last year.
Source: Climate Prediction Center, NOAA
Weather Hedging: Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Weather Futures Prices
Each Degree Day valued at $100 per contract
Cooling
Degree Days HDDs
Location July Aug Sep Oct
Atlanta, GA 399 390 250 118
Chicago, IL 228 220 77 390
Cincinnati, OH 277 285 122 315
Dallas, TX 661 646 400 73
Des Moines, IA 360 315 108 390
Las Vegas, NV 923 820 525 50
New York, NY 384 360 163 225
Philadelphia, PA 426 370 160 245
Portland, OR 206 155 63 318
Tucson, AZ 750 655 523 23
The above values are CME settlement prices as of Aug 1, 2003.
For information about CME weather futures, visit www.cme.com
or contact Felix Carabello at (312) 634-1585 fcarabel@cme.com
Electricity Price Comparison
Breakeven Rates
($/kWh)
3rd Q-02 4th Q-02 1st Q-03
Large Office (150,000 [ft.sup.2])
Boston Edison Company (Boston, MA) 0.0592 0.0592 0.0513
Consolidated Edison (New York, NY) 0.0934 0.0787 0.0970
Niagara Mohawk (Syracuse, NY) 0.0555 0.0562 0.0776
PSEG (Newark, NJ) 0.0483 0.0450 0.0419
PECO (Philadelphia, PA) 0.0599 0.0533 0.0501
Duquesne (Pittsburgh, PA) 0.0601 0.0540 0.0530
Energy use (kWh): Annual, 2,414,801; 2002 First quarter, 546,238;
Second quarter, 629,252; Third quarter, 695,889; Fourth quarter,
543,519; First quarter, 546,238; April, 189,429; May, 203,569;
June, 236,254
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