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Article: Cool comfort ; Silver lining in cloudy weather: lower electric bills
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2009
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Like any other New Englander, Bob Cleary knows that Memorial Day
heralds the unofficial start of summer. So in late May he enlisted a
buddy to help him hoist his 85-pound, 14,000-BTU monster of an air
conditioner into one of the downstairs windows of his Quincy home.
Then Cleary sat back and waited for the chance to crank that
sucker up.
He's still waiting.
"It's just sitting there in the window, ready to go," said
Cleary, 62, sounding a bit wistful. "I knew we were in for cool
weather, but I figured it would go away in a week or 10 days. It
just never left."
No, it didn't. So far, this has been the summer that wasn't. The
weather has left TV meteorologists groping for new ways to say "wet, ...