MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(045756) MOJAVE
From Year=1904 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	211	269	403	571	853	1106	1347	1310	1043	758	393	184	8447
40 S	211	480	883	1453	2306	3412	4759	6069	7113	7871	8263	8447	8447
45 M	103	150	261	423	698	956	1192	1155	893	604	256	81	6772
45 S	103	253	514	937	1635	2591	3784	4938	5832	6435	6692	6772	6772
50 M	39	67	145	285	544	806	1037	1000	743	451	142	23	5283
50 S	39	106	251	536	1080	1886	2923	3923	4667	5118	5261	5283	5283
55 M	11	20	66	169	396	656	882	845	594	308	61	3	4012
55 S	11	32	98	266	662	1319	2201	3046	3640	3948	4009	4012	4012
60 M	3	3	22	83	262	508	727	690	447	184	19	0	2948
60 S	3	7	28	111	374	882	1609	2299	2745	2930	2948	2948	2948

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	137	167	238	348	540	719	858	835	672	484	246	127	5371
50 S	137	304	542	889	1429	2148	3007	3842	4514	4998	5243	5371	5371

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