Aaron’s Mechanical Services Talks Staying Cool In February

We would normally be talking about staying warm this time of year.  But over the last few days we need to think about staying cool.

As you may noticed we have shifted from telling our friends and customers about heating and have started talking about cooling. We all know that Arizona (at least the southern part of the state) is a nice warm place to live.  During the winter months we have many visitors join us from the coldest states across the nation.

But the last week or so we have been running ten plus degrees over our normal warm winter days. From the mid-eighties to ninety degrees Fahrenheit it is downright warm even for the Phoenix Metro Area.

One of our winter visitors even mentioned the AC words.  He said the bitter cold and heavy snows are keeping him here in Arizona.  But his mobile home (actually an RV) is getting warm (OK, hot) for him.

The National Weather Service says we are running at least ten degrees above normal.  That sure has reduced our heating costs these last two weeks or so. It looks like that in a few days we will drop into the mid-seventies for a few days and then we will go back up to the low eighties.

Of course March could bring us a few colder days.  

Did You Know?

On the night of Saturday January 13th 2007, the South Western US was visited by an extremely cold arctic air mass. In California, a great deal of frost damage was done to the citrus crop. Here in Phoenix, temperatures were the lowest they had been in 18 years, and all but the largest and most protected ficus nitida trees, a very common landscape plant, were killed. Even oleanders around town were frozen back, which is very unusual. Unfortunately, the weather forecast was only predicting lows at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix of 32 F, so many people were taking by surprise when the temperatures in the urban areas dropped even lower. Some desert areas were as cold as 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

An example of just how cold it was can be shown by reviewing the conditions that night at a local home in Northern Mesa, which is in a well-developed part of town. On the outside edge of a covered patio a thermometer read 28 Fahrenheit at 3AM and 27 F. at 7AM. This equates to 4 full hours below 28 degrees. Temperatures out in the yard were most likely even colder. A bird bath accumulated over an inch of solid ice in it. A rare Phoenix area event.

No matter if your home needs help with heating or cooling Aaron’s Mechanical Services stands ready to help. 

Aaron’s Mechanical Services wants you to stay comfortable all year round.  If your furnace, heating system or HVAC unit needs service or replacement please think of us and call at 623-388-4436 and we will come to you and solve your Heating Unit service needs.

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