ELIDA, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(292854) ELIDA
From Year=1910 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	88	140	299	527	813	1047	1158	1118	882	599	250	98	7019
40 S	88	228	528	1054	1867	2914	4072	5191	6073	6672	6921	7019	7019
45 M	34	67	180	385	658	897	1003	963	733	449	144	39	5553
45 S	34	101	281	667	1325	2222	3225	4188	4921	5370	5514	5553	5553
50 M	9	25	90	253	505	747	848	808	584	307	66	11	4253
50 S	9	34	124	377	882	1629	2477	3286	3869	4176	4242	4253	4253
55 M	1	6	34	141	357	597	693	653	437	181	21	2	3124
55 S	1	7	41	182	539	1136	1830	2483	2920	3101	3122	3124	3124
60 M	0	1	8	61	220	448	538	498	295	83	4	0	2157
60 S	0	1	9	69	290	738	1277	1775	2070	2153	2157	2157	2157

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	100	134	240	365	519	663	754	731	569	390	199	103	4767
50 S	100	234	474	839	1358	2020	2774	3506	4075	4464	4664	4767	4767

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