BAKER 9 NNW, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(040437) BAKER 9 NNW
From Year=1953 To Year=1971
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	248	400	619	836	1148	1385	1641	1598	1304	981	526	248	10933
40 S	248	648	1267	2103	3251	4635	6276	7874	9177	10158	10684	10933	10933
45 M	125	264	465	686	993	1235	1486	1443	1154	826	378	117	9170
45 S	125	389	854	1540	2533	3768	5253	6696	7850	8676	9053	9170	9170
50 M	43	145	316	537	838	1085	1331	1288	1004	671	239	37	7533
50 S	43	188	504	1041	1879	2963	4294	5582	6585	7256	7495	7533	7533
55 M	8	61	186	392	683	935	1176	1133	854	517	126	9	6077
55 S	8	69	255	647	1329	2264	3440	4572	5426	5943	6069	6077	6077
60 M	1	18	86	262	529	785	1021	978	704	367	47	2	4798
60 S	1	19	105	366	895	1680	2700	3678	4382	4749	4796	4798	4798

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	175	252	382	526	722	848	989	967	802	619	328	177	6788
50 S	175	427	809	1334	2057	2905	3894	4861	5663	6282	6610	6788	6788

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