OCEANSIDE MARINA, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(046377) OCEANSIDE MARINA
From Year=1953 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	441	416	485	533	644	703	843	893	819	734	556	456	7522
40 S	441	857	1341	1874	2518	3220	4064	4957	5775	6509	7066	7522	7522
45 M	286	275	330	383	489	553	688	738	669	579	406	301	5696
45 S	286	561	891	1273	1762	2315	3003	3741	4410	4988	5395	5696	5696
50 M	140	139	177	233	334	403	533	583	519	424	257	153	3893
50 S	140	279	455	688	1022	1425	1958	2541	3060	3484	3741	3893	3893
55 M	44	41	53	93	179	253	378	428	369	269	120	47	2274
55 S	44	85	138	231	411	663	1042	1470	1838	2108	2227	2274	2274
60 M	10	7	6	15	51	107	223	273	219	123	34	9	1077
60 S	10	16	23	38	88	196	419	692	911	1034	1068	1077	1077

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	223	204	228	259	339	404	533	583	517	426	298	239	4253
50 S	223	427	655	913	1253	1657	2190	2773	3289	3716	4014	4253	4253

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