SAGUACHE, COLORADO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(057337) SAGUACHE
From Year=1894 To Year=2009
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	0	2	23	125	345	578	755	696	468	198	15	0	3205
40 S	0	2	25	149	494	1072	1828	2523	2991	3189	3204	3205	3205
45 M	0	0	4	45	204	429	600	541	320	87	1	0	2232
45 S	0	0	4	49	253	682	1282	1823	2143	2230	2232	2232	2232
50 M	0	0	0	8	90	281	445	386	180	23	0	0	1415
50 S	0	0	0	9	99	380	826	1212	1391	1415	1415	1415	1415
55 M	0	0	0	1	23	147	291	232	68	3	0	0	765
55 S	0	0	0	1	24	171	462	694	762	765	765	765	765
60 M	0	0	0	0	3	49	142	94	13	0	0	0	301
60 S	0	0	0	0	3	52	194	288	301	301	301	301	301

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	3	10	54	151	281	405	488	450	347	206	49	4	2448
50 S	3	13	67	219	500	905	1393	1843	2189	2395	2444	2448	2448

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