TACONY 13 SE, COLORADO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(058157) TACONY 10 SE
From Year=1955 To Year=2012
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 21 40 150 343 631 912 1098 1027 750 415 106 25 5518
40 S 21 61 211 554 1185 2097 3195 4221 4971 5386 5492 5518 5518
45 M 5 12 71 217 478 762 943 872 601 277 45 6 4288
45 S 5 17 88 305 783 1545 2488 3359 3960 4237 4282 4288 4288
50 M 1 2 26 116 332 612 788 717 455 158 13 1 3219
50 S 1 3 29 144 476 1088 1876 2593 3047 3205 3218 3219 3219
55 M 0 0 6 47 201 463 633 562 314 71 2 0 2299
55 S 0 0 6 54 254 717 1350 1912 2225 2296 2299 2299 2299
60 M 0 0 1 12 97 318 478 407 184 23 0 0 1520
60 S 0 0 1 13 110 427 906 1313 1497 1520 1520 1520 1520
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 49 69 164 273 413 560 678 642 480 316 122 52 3819
50 S 49 118 282 555 967 1528 2206 2848 3328 3644 3766 3819 3819
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