CASCABEL, ARIZONA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(021330) CASCABEL
From Year=1969 To Year=2012
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	241	299	452	620	889	1132	1309	1263	1068	778	420	235	8707
40 S	241	540	992	1612	2501	3633	4943	6206	7274	8052	8472	8707	8707
45 M	118	172	303	470	734	982	1154	1108	918	623	279	115	6979
45 S	118	290	593	1063	1797	2780	3934	5042	5961	6584	6863	6979	6979
50 M	37	75	170	325	579	832	999	953	768	470	156	37	5403
50 S	37	112	282	607	1187	2019	3019	3972	4740	5210	5366	5403	5403
55 M	5	19	73	193	426	682	844	798	618	322	64	5	4050
55 S	5	24	97	290	716	1398	2243	3041	3659	3981	4045	4050	4050
60 M	0	1	20	88	277	532	689	643	468	187	15	0	2921
60 S	0	2	21	109	386	918	1607	2251	2719	2907	2921	2921	2921

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	231	262	365	461	561	635	795	787	657	514	341	226	5835
50 S	231	494	859	1320	1881	2516	3311	4097	4755	5268	5609	5835	5835

M = Monthly Data
S - Running sum of monthly data.
Growing Degree Day units are computed as the difference between the daily average temperature and the base temperature. (Daily Ave. Temp. - Base Temp.) One unit is accumulated for each degree Fahrenheit the average temperature is above the base temperature. Negative numbers are discarded. Example: If the days high temperature was 95 and the low temperature was 51, the base 60 heating degree day units is ((95 + 51) / 2) - 60 = 13. This is done for each day of the month and summed.
Corn Growing Degree Day units have the limitations that the maximum daily temperatures greater than 86 F are set to 86 F and minimums less than 50 F are set to 50 F.
Table updated on Oct 31, 2012
Months with 5 or more missing days are not considered
Years with 1 or more missing months are not considered

Western Regional Climate Center, wrcc@dri.edu