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Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(215563) MONTEVIDEO 1 SW
From Year=1893 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 2 36 216 556 819 999 925 622 302 43 2 4523
40 S 0 2 39 255 811 1630 2628 3553 4175 4478 4521 4523 4523
45 M 0 0 15 129 409 669 844 770 476 190 16 0 3519
45 S 0 0 16 145 554 1223 2067 2836 3312 3502 3518 3519 3519
50 M 0 0 6 69 276 520 689 615 338 106 5 0 2623
50 S 0 0 6 75 351 871 1560 2175 2512 2618 2623 2623 2623
55 M 0 0 2 32 167 374 534 460 216 51 1 0 1837
55 S 0 0 2 34 201 575 1109 1569 1785 1836 1837 1837 1837
60 M 0 0 1 13 87 239 380 310 122 19 0 0 1171
60 S 0 0 1 13 100 339 720 1030 1152 1171 1171 1171 1171
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 1 2 27 141 337 520 659 602 384 191 32 2 2897
50 S 1 3 30 171 508 1027 1686 2288 2673 2863 2895 2897 2897
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