BELEN, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(290846) BELEN
From Year=1941 To Year=1976
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 30 89 230 484 768 1016 1193 1116 852 533 151 29 6491
40 S 30 120 350 834 1602 2617 3810 4926 5778 6311 6462 6491 6491
45 M 7 31 122 338 613 866 1038 961 702 380 60 7 5125
45 S 7 38 160 498 1111 1977 3014 3976 4678 5058 5118 5125 5125
50 M 1 7 51 204 460 716 883 806 552 236 15 1 3931
50 S 1 8 59 263 722 1438 2321 3127 3679 3915 3930 3931 3931
55 M 0 1 15 96 311 566 728 651 403 117 1 0 2889
55 S 0 1 16 112 423 989 1717 2368 2771 2888 2889 2889 2889
60 M 0 0 3 30 176 416 573 496 258 39 0 0 1990
60 S 0 0 3 33 209 625 1198 1694 1952 1990 1990 1990 1990
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 63 124 224 366 511 613 740 704 549 397 177 62 4530
50 S 63 188 412 778 1289 1902 2641 3346 3894 4291 4468 4530 4530
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