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How hard the weather is pushing pest demand in Charlotte right now, on a 0 to 100 scale where 100 is peak-season demand and 30 is the winter floor that never goes away.
Charlotte sits at 33 this week, 5 points below its five-year normal for mid October. The forecast has it holding near 35 next week. This is the fall slide. On a normal year Charlotte drops under 50 the week of Oct 8; this year it is already under that line. From here the normal gives back another 8 points to a floor of 30 by January. Demand falls faster than most budgets do, and the slide is where spend runs ahead of the market.
On a normal year pest season in Charlotte starts building the week of Apr 2, when the Pest Pressure Index clears 40 off its winter floor, and is fully on by the week of Apr 30, when it crosses 50, half of peak. It peaks at 87 the week of Jul 16 and drops back under 50 the week of Oct 8.
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This is the market's half of the math. The Almanac runs your half: your spend and your signed customers, graded against this same curve. See the Almanac
The Pest Pressure Index converts daily temperature into pest demand: nothing below a 48°F daily mean, rising to full demand at 86°F, easing in extreme heat, with a winter floor of 30. Weekly readings average the daily values. In Charlotte the model tracks five years of "pest control" search interest at r=0.91; across 62 metros it runs r=0.93. It measures the market, not any one company.
Weather data: Open-Meteo. Search interest: Google Trends, Greater Charlotte market. Readings are the engine's own output and contain no company's advertising or customer data.