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Originally Posted by Xringer
I just looked at the underground weather data for Meredith, NY and does get a lot colder up in the hills around there!
Around here, the coldest temps are very early in the AM..
But when the sun comes out, it's back up into the teens and twenties.
One of the advantages of living near the sea, I guess.
Even with your excessive cold stretches, if your average cold season temp is in the teens,
you still might find a good mini-split useful.. Ours does the job 99.4% of the time.
So, maybe up in those hills, it might be useful 80% of the time.?.
They work pretty well above 5F.. The new models do better..
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Yes, I haven't counted it out just yet. One of things I like is that I can 'test the water' so to speak and see how it does, then make a decision when I've made some calculations.
I have a pretty good weather station here as I monitor the wind data in my front field, yes, just before dawn is usually the coldest.
Rob