CEDAREDGE, COLORADO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(051440) CEDAREDGE
From Year=1898 To Year=1994
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	2	12	77	252	510	763	979	912	654	344	63	5	4574
40 S	2	15	92	343	854	1617	2596	3508	4162	4506	4570	4574	4574
45 M	0	1	24	140	361	613	824	757	504	211	19	1	3455
45 S	0	1	25	165	526	1139	1963	2720	3225	3436	3455	3455	3455
50 M	0	0	5	60	224	464	669	602	358	102	3	0	2488
50 S	0	0	5	64	289	753	1422	2024	2382	2485	2488	2488	2488
55 M	0	0	0	17	111	319	514	447	220	35	0	0	1664
55 S	0	0	0	17	128	447	961	1408	1628	1664	1664	1664	1664
60 M	0	0	0	2	36	187	360	293	102	6	0	0	986
60 S	0	0	0	2	38	224	584	877	979	986	986	986	986

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	4	17	75	191	344	491	625	585	428	253	66	8	3087
50 S	4	22	97	288	632	1122	1747	2332	2760	3013	3079	3087	3087

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