Bitter Cold Coming Later This Week

Zero degrees is the perfect 65 "heating degree day." Cost per house: $20. Cost per house per week of this: $140.

Of course in this region such low temperatures last for only a day or two normally.

To see the normal heating degree bands around Ohio, click on the following and enlarge:
http://natgagu.blogspot.com/2007/06/normal-heating-degree-days-bands-around.html

The poor Europeans who have been cut off by Russia. I haven't checked on the temperatures there now, but probably they are not too severe.

Here's a website that discusses the European-Russian natural gas dependency:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22562.pdf