ELECTRA POWER HOUSE, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(042728) ELECTRA POWER HOUSE
From Year=1948 To Year=1997
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 180 270 383 515 745 932 1140 1095 939 717 385 195 7495
40 S 180 449 832 1347 2092 3024 4164 5259 6198 6915 7300 7495 7495
45 M 73 142 232 366 590 782 985 940 789 562 240 80 5781
45 S 73 214 447 813 1403 2185 3169 4110 4899 5461 5701 5781 5781
50 M 19 51 107 225 436 632 830 785 639 408 118 20 4271
50 S 19 70 177 403 838 1470 2300 3085 3724 4132 4251 4271 4271
55 M 3 9 31 110 286 482 675 630 489 260 40 2 3017
55 S 3 12 43 153 439 921 1596 2226 2715 2975 3015 3017 3017
60 M 0 0 4 38 157 334 520 475 341 134 8 0 2010
60 S 0 0 4 42 198 532 1052 1527 1868 2002 2010 2010 2010
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 113 174 239 332 469 559 657 637 565 457 244 117 4563
50 S 113 286 525 857 1326 1886 2543 3180 3745 4201 4445 4563 4563
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