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Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(118756) UTICA STARVED ROCK DAM
From Year=1943 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 10 21 106 352 678 883 1070 1001 772 417 151 27 5489
40 S 10 31 138 490 1168 2052 3121 4122 4894 5311 5462 5489 5489
45 M 2 8 58 228 525 733 915 846 622 281 87 12 4316
45 S 2 10 69 296 821 1554 2469 3315 3937 4218 4305 4316 4316
50 M 0 2 29 131 377 583 760 691 473 174 41 5 3267
50 S 0 2 31 163 540 1123 1883 2574 3046 3220 3262 3267 3267
55 M 0 0 11 68 242 436 605 536 326 94 16 2 2336
55 S 0 0 11 79 321 756 1361 1897 2223 2318 2333 2336 2336
60 M 0 0 3 31 135 297 450 382 198 42 4 0 1543
60 S 0 0 3 35 170 467 916 1298 1496 1538 1542 1543 1543
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 7 11 65 211 409 577 730 677 487 243 82 13 3512
50 S 7 18 83 294 704 1281 2011 2688 3174 3417 3500 3512 3512
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