GLADSTONE, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(293552) GLADSTONE
From Year=1920 To Year=1957
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 19 57 -99 194 599 803 955 971 773 516 160 98 -99
40 S 19 75 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99
45 M 3 15 -99 98 444 653 800 816 623 362 61 36 -99
45 S 3 17 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99
50 M 0 1 -99 33 293 503 645 661 473 225 11 7 -99
50 S 0 1 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99
55 M 0 0 -99 4 154 358 490 506 324 105 2 1 -99
55 S 0 0 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99
60 M 0 0 -99 0 56 228 337 351 182 21 0 0 -99
60 S 0 0 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 43 83 -99 211 403 487 598 610 509 411 220 135 -99
50 S 43 126 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99 -99
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