New Yorkers burned a record amount of natural gas to keep warm during the prolonged stretch of arctic conditions that have gripped the region for weeks.
National Grid, which delivers natural gas across New York State, said it provided an all-time high amount of gas delivery to Long Island and the Rockaway Peninsula on Feb. 7, which broke a record that was set only a week prior. Its service areas in Brooklyn, Staten Island and parts of Queens experienced the second highest day.
During this cold snap, Long Island gas consumption was so high that eight of the top 10 high gas output days in National Grid history occurred between Jan. 23 to Feb. 7. The previous gas consumption record was broken six times in the past couple of weeks on Long Island. In that same period, New York City hit three of its top 10 days of gas usage history…