LAKE MC MILLAN, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(294747) LAKE MC MILLAN
From Year=1940 To Year=1949
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	71	193	430	679	988	1162	1303	1231	987	638	258	274	8214
40 S	71	264	694	1373	2361	3523	4826	6057	7044	7682	7940	8214	8214
45 M	29	108	291	534	833	1012	1148	1076	837	483	157	154	6663
45 S	29	137	428	963	1796	2808	3955	5031	5869	6352	6509	6663	6663
50 M	8	45	172	399	678	862	993	921	687	330	77	70	5241
50 S	8	52	224	624	1302	2164	3156	4077	4765	5095	5171	5241	5241
55 M	2	12	78	275	523	712	838	766	539	187	27	27	3984
55 S	2	14	92	367	890	1602	2439	3206	3744	3931	3958	3984	3984
60 M	0	2	19	163	369	562	683	611	393	90	4	7	2902
60 S	0	2	21	184	553	1115	1798	2409	2802	2892	2896	2902	2902

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	71	167	325	440	613	741	835	785	635	425	229	216	5480
50 S	71	238	562	1002	1615	2356	3191	3976	4611	5036	5264	5480	5480

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