LEMON COVE, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(044890) LEMON COVE
From Year=1899 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	217	332	498	642	881	1065	1280	1227	1030	787	432	220	8611
40 S	217	550	1048	1690	2571	3635	4915	6142	7172	7959	8391	8611	8611
45 M	101	198	345	492	726	915	1125	1072	880	632	285	100	6871
45 S	101	299	644	1136	1862	2777	3902	4974	5853	6485	6771	6871	6871
50 M	33	89	203	345	571	765	970	917	730	478	155	31	5286
50 S	33	121	325	670	1241	2006	2976	3893	4622	5100	5255	5286	5286
55 M	6	25	95	212	418	615	815	762	580	327	64	6	3924
55 S	6	32	126	338	756	1370	2185	2947	3527	3854	3918	3924	3924
60 M	1	4	31	108	274	465	660	607	430	190	18	1	2788
60 S	1	4	35	143	417	882	1542	2149	2579	2770	2787	2788	2788

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	114	184	293	395	550	650	763	737	637	490	255	118	5186
50 S	114	298	591	986	1536	2186	2949	3687	4324	4814	5068	5186	5186

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