<p>I am trying to find heating degree days forecast data </p>

<ol>
<li>for a certain state</li>
<li>for a long period ( > 3 mons)</li>
<li>published by the US government or universities.</li>
</ol>

<p>What I found:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Heating Degree Days W. N. Central, Monthly by EIA.com. This one has forecast to 2018, but it forecast the entire W.N. Central region.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/cdus/degree_days/hfstwpws.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/cdus/degree_days/hfstwpws.txt</a> Here is a state-wide forecast, but it only forecast 7-day.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>This 2 data don't meet all the requirements. I was wondering if anyone know data that would meet all the requirements?</p>

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2017-02-07T18:49:13.433Z
So to verify/clarify... you want a current 3 month forecast, not 3 months of past forecasts??
JeopardyTempest
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2017-02-07T19:37:29.537Z
For example, I want hearing days from 2018 Jan to 2018 March
Jill Clover
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2017-02-07T20:15:54.170Z
Will say this... heating degree day forecasts into the future more than a week are going to be fairly poor forecasts.  The CPC issues forecasts for the likely temperature/precipitation pattern for the next 3 months (http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/), but don't believe they've been shown to be that skillful.
JeopardyTempest
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2017-02-07T20:18:06.897Z
There are also climate models such as the weekly ECMWF (http://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/charts/mofcmulti/weekly-anomaly-extended-range-forecast) and CMC (http://theweathercentre.blogspot.com/2008/12/cmc-long-range-model.html). I don't think you'll find what you're looking for, as such forecasts wouldn't be very good.  If anyone makes such forecasts, I'd think i it'd probably be private companies hoping to make small gains in such a market.
JeopardyTempest
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2017-02-07T20:18:55.760Z
One more clarification question, though: you want a forecast for each day... or just one forecast of the TOTAL for the January-March 2018 window?
JeopardyTempest
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2017-02-07T20:19:09.703Z
I know long-term forecasting for temperature is hard, but I only want monthly heating degree days which would be easier than single-day temp forecasting.
Jill Clover
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2017-02-07T20:20:10.680Z
The ideal data would total monthly heating degree days. For example, 3 data points for January-March 2018 window.
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Heating degree days forecast
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# Heating degree days forecast

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-02-06)

I am trying to find heating degree days forecast data

1. for a certain state
2. for a long period ( > 3 mons)
3. published by the US government or universities.

What I found:

1. Heating Degree Days W. N. Central, Monthly by EIA.com. This one has forecast to 2018, but it forecast the entire W.N. Central region.
2. <http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/cdus/degree_days/hfstwpws.txt> Here is a state-wide forecast, but it only forecast 7-day.

This 2 data don't meet all the requirements. I was wondering if anyone know data that would meet all the requirements?

**Tags:** meteorology, open-data

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: So to verify/clarify... you want a current 3 month forecast, not 3 months of past forecasts??  
> **username_0**: For example, I want hearing days from 2018 Jan to 2018 March  
> **username_1**: Will say this... heating degree day forecasts into the future more than a week are going to be fairly poor forecasts.  The CPC issues forecasts for the likely temperature/precipitation pattern for the next 3 months (http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/), but don't believe they've been shown to be that skillful.  
> **username_1**: There are also climate models such as the weekly ECMWF (http://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/charts/mofcmulti/weekly-anomaly-extended-range-forecast) and CMC (http://theweathercentre.blogspot.com/2008/12/cmc-long-range-model.html). I don't think you'll find what you're looking for, as such forecasts wouldn't be very good.  If anyone makes such forecasts, I'd think i it'd probably be private companies hoping to make small gains in such a market.  
> **username_1**: One more clarification question, though: you want a forecast for each day... or just one forecast of the TOTAL for the January-March 2018 window?  
> **username_0**: I know long-term forecasting for temperature is hard, but I only want monthly heating degree days which would be easier than single-day temp forecasting.  
> **username_0**: The ideal data would total monthly heating degree days. For example, 3 data points for January-March 2018 window.  

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