ANIMAS 3 ESE, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(290417) ANIMAS
From Year=1923 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 131 205 382 589 878 1106 1219 1142 953 673 314 124 7716
40 S 131 336 718 1307 2185 3291 4510 5652 6605 7278 7592 7716 7716
45 M 47 101 241 441 723 956 1064 987 803 519 188 45 6114
45 S 47 148 389 830 1552 2508 3573 4560 5362 5882 6069 6114 6114
50 M 10 35 125 298 568 806 909 832 653 369 88 10 4703
50 S 10 45 170 468 1036 1842 2751 3583 4236 4605 4693 4703 4703
55 M 1 7 48 171 415 656 754 677 503 227 29 1 3489
55 S 1 8 56 227 642 1297 2052 2729 3232 3459 3488 3489 3489
60 M 0 0 11 73 267 506 599 522 354 110 6 0 2447
60 S 0 0 11 84 351 856 1456 1978 2332 2441 2447 2447 2447
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 136 188 307 426 569 669 773 742 616 451 249 130 5257
50 S 136 324 631 1057 1626 2295 3068 3810 4426 4877 5126 5257 5257
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