LINDSAY, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(044957) LINDSAY
From Year=1948 To Year=2006
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	209	315	469	622	865	1038	1238	1180	995	747	399	202	8280
40 S	209	524	993	1616	2481	3519	4757	5937	6932	7678	8077	8280	8280
45 M	94	182	316	472	710	888	1083	1025	845	592	253	88	6549
45 S	94	277	593	1065	1775	2663	3746	4771	5616	6208	6461	6549	6549
50 M	30	77	176	325	555	738	928	870	695	437	130	25	4987
50 S	30	108	284	609	1164	1902	2830	3700	4395	4832	4962	4987	4987
55 M	6	20	73	191	401	588	773	715	545	287	46	4	3651
55 S	6	27	100	291	692	1280	2053	2768	3313	3601	3647	3651	3651
60 M	1	2	20	89	257	438	618	560	396	154	9	0	2545
60 S	1	3	23	112	369	808	1426	1985	2381	2536	2545	2545	2545

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	121	197	298	396	539	631	739	707	608	477	258	125	5097
50 S	121	319	617	1013	1552	2182	2921	3628	4237	4714	4972	5097	5097

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