PALISADE, COLORADO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(056266) PALISADE
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	7	46	195	412	719	989	1217	1135	844	505	126	12	6206
40 S	7	53	248	660	1378	2367	3583	4718	5562	6067	6193	6206	6206
45 M	1	12	98	277	564	839	1062	980	694	358	53	2	4939
45 S	1	12	111	387	952	1790	2852	3831	4526	4884	4937	4939	4939
50 M	0	2	39	163	414	689	907	825	546	224	14	1	3822
50 S	0	2	41	204	618	1307	2213	3038	3584	3808	3822	3822	3822
55 M	0	0	11	79	276	540	752	670	400	115	2	0	2844
55 S	0	0	11	90	366	906	1657	2327	2727	2842	2843	2844	2844
60 M	0	0	2	28	158	393	597	515	261	44	0	0	1997
60 S	0	0	2	30	188	581	1178	1693	1953	1997	1997	1997	1997

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	7	35	130	258	448	628	775	734	538	319	87	11	3970
50 S	7	42	172	430	879	1507	2282	3016	3554	3873	3960	3970	3970

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