DEMING, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(292436) DEMING
From Year=1892 To Year=2010
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	113	192	364	563	847	1104	1231	1169	961	663	292	114	7612
40 S	113	304	669	1232	2079	3183	4413	5582	6543	7206	7498	7612	7612
45 M	39	91	224	415	692	954	1076	1014	811	509	167	38	6030
45 S	39	130	354	769	1461	2415	3491	4505	5315	5824	5991	6030	6030
50 M	8	29	111	273	538	804	921	859	661	358	73	7	4640
50 S	8	37	148	420	958	1762	2682	3541	4202	4560	4633	4640	4640
55 M	1	5	38	148	386	654	766	704	511	218	20	0	3450
55 S	1	6	44	192	578	1231	1997	2701	3211	3430	3450	3450	3450
60 M	0	1	7	58	242	504	611	549	362	103	3	0	2438
60 S	0	1	8	66	307	811	1421	1970	2332	2435	2438	2438	2438

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	133	180	291	401	548	673	783	757	617	447	242	127	5199
50 S	133	313	604	1005	1553	2226	3009	3766	4383	4830	5072	5199	5199

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