LAKE AVALON, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(294736) LAKE AVALON
From Year=1914 To Year=1979
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	162	233	435	692	972	1191	1288	1245	996	694	329	172	8411
40 S	162	395	830	1522	2495	3686	4974	6219	7215	7909	8239	8411	8411
45 M	81	132	298	543	817	1041	1133	1090	846	541	201	80	6803
45 S	81	212	510	1053	1871	2912	4045	5135	5981	6522	6723	6803	6803
50 M	31	61	179	398	663	891	978	935	696	392	98	29	5350
50 S	31	92	271	669	1331	2223	3201	4136	4832	5223	5321	5350	5350
55 M	9	23	89	262	509	741	823	780	548	251	34	8	4076
55 S	9	32	120	383	891	1633	2456	3236	3783	4035	4069	4076	4076
60 M	2	6	32	145	360	591	668	625	402	133	6	1	2972
60 S	2	8	40	184	544	1136	1804	2429	2831	2964	2971	2972	2972

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	146	189	312	450	616	749	830	803	640	446	238	162	5580
50 S	146	334	647	1097	1713	2462	3291	4094	4735	5180	5418	5580	5580

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