CANTIL, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(041488) CANTIL
From Year=1955 To Year=1974
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	181	289	466	629	929	1193	1437	1380	1087	781	368	172	8913
40 S	181	470	936	1565	2495	3688	5125	6504	7591	8373	8741	8913	8913
45 M	80	162	315	480	774	1043	1282	1225	937	627	228	71	7224
45 S	80	242	557	1036	1811	2854	4136	5360	6298	6924	7152	7224	7224
50 M	24	68	180	336	619	893	1127	1070	787	473	116	23	5716
50 S	24	93	273	608	1228	2121	3248	4318	5105	5578	5694	5716	5716
55 M	5	20	82	208	466	743	972	915	637	324	44	5	4421
55 S	5	25	108	316	782	1525	2497	3412	4049	4372	4416	4421	4421
60 M	1	4	27	107	320	594	817	760	487	188	10	1	3315
60 S	1	5	32	139	459	1053	1870	2629	3117	3305	3314	3315	3315

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	165	215	314	405	579	731	854	815	654	514	284	173	5702
50 S	165	380	693	1098	1677	2407	3262	4076	4730	5245	5529	5702	5702

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 Jul 28, 2006
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