degree day in English

noun
1
a unit used to determine the heating requirements of buildings, representing a fall of one degree below a specified average outdoor temperature (usually 18°C or 65°F) for one day.
Weather contracts on U.S. cities for the winter months are tied to an index of heating degree day values.

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1. Cooling Degree Day is a measure that helps to simplify the cost of projected energy consumption

2. For me, it was once a kid at mile 17 of the Boston Marathon who handed me a popsicle on an 86 degree day.

3. Extensive research has been undertaken into the use of degree day summation to predict pink Bollworm development (Frisbie et al., 1989 and references therein)

4. Calculating Growing Degree Days By Jim Nugent District Horticulturist Michigan State University Are you Calculating degree day accumulations and finding your values don't match the values being reported by MSU or your neighbor's electronic data collection unit? There is a logical reason!