WICKENBURG, ARIZONA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(029287) WICKENBURG
From Year=1908 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 254 316 490 673 945 1183 1444 1392 1150 840 472 270 9429
40 S 254 570 1060 1733 2678 3861 5305 6698 7848 8687 9160 9429 9429
45 M 129 187 339 523 790 1033 1289 1237 1000 685 326 139 7678
45 S 129 316 655 1178 1968 3001 4290 5527 6527 7212 7538 7678 7678
50 M 45 86 201 376 635 883 1134 1082 850 530 193 49 6065
50 S 45 131 332 707 1342 2225 3360 4442 5292 5822 6016 6065 6065
55 M 8 26 94 238 481 733 979 927 700 378 89 9 4662
55 S 8 35 128 366 847 1580 2559 3487 4187 4565 4653 4662 4662
60 M 1 4 31 122 331 583 824 772 550 237 28 0 3483
60 S 1 5 36 157 488 1071 1896 2668 3218 3454 3482 3483 3483
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 228 254 359 455 576 674 861 847 697 539 357 241 6088
50 S 228 481 840 1296 1872 2546 3407 4254 4952 5491 5848 6088 6088
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