STANTON, ARIZONA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(028184) STANTON
From Year=1944 To Year=1969
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	261	310	411	631	895	1133	1356	1292	1140	877	486	316	9107
40 S	261	572	982	1614	2509	3642	4998	6290	7429	8306	8792	9107	9107
45 M	145	193	272	483	740	983	1201	1137	990	722	343	187	7395
45 S	145	338	610	1093	1833	2817	4017	5154	6144	6865	7209	7395	7395
50 M	63	101	152	342	586	833	1046	982	840	569	217	89	5819
50 S	63	164	317	659	1245	2078	3124	4105	4945	5514	5731	5819	5819
55 M	19	41	65	214	435	683	891	827	690	420	118	28	4429
55 S	19	60	125	339	774	1457	2347	3174	3864	4284	4401	4429	4429
60 M	3	11	18	109	292	533	736	672	540	280	49	5	3248
60 S	3	14	32	141	433	966	1702	2374	2914	3194	3243	3248	3248

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	139	173	240	388	575	728	880	851	757	568	277	169	5744
50 S	139	312	552	940	1516	2244	3124	3975	4731	5299	5575	5744	5744

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