CLOQUET, MINNESOTA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(211630) CLOQUET
From Year=1900 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	0	0	11	103	374	628	831	764	474	191	17	0	3393
40 S	0	0	11	115	489	1117	1947	2711	3185	3376	3393	3393	3393
45 M	0	0	4	48	240	478	676	609	333	101	4	0	2493
45 S	0	0	4	52	291	770	1446	2054	2387	2488	2493	2493	2493
50 M	0	0	1	19	133	333	521	454	209	44	1	0	1715
50 S	0	0	1	20	153	486	1007	1461	1670	1714	1715	1715	1715
55 M	0	0	0	6	62	202	367	305	113	15	0	0	1071
55 S	0	0	0	6	69	270	637	942	1055	1071	1071	1071	1071
60 M	0	0	0	1	23	100	223	173	51	4	0	0	575
60 S	0	0	0	1	24	124	347	520	571	575	575	575	575

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	0	0	10	89	259	394	532	484	284	115	9	0	2177
50 S	0	0	10	100	359	753	1285	1769	2053	2168	2176	2177	2177

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