Weather Stations

Monthly Normals - Degree days for Pittsburgh PA

Heating and cooling degree days are indicators of how much energy a typical household or building will use for space heating or cooling. The more heating degree days you have, the more energy it will take to heat the inside of the home or building. The more cooling degree days you have, the more energy it will take to cool the inside of the home or building.

To download the data to your system, choose "save as" from your browser, creating a file on one of your own drives (be sure to name it with an "HTM" extension). Using Microsoft Excel, you can open your HTM file as a spreadsheet, delete any rows or columns you do not need, and perform further manipulations of the data.