MALJAMAR, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(295370) MALJAMAR 4 SE
From Year=1942 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	127	204	386	615	900	1108	1214	1168	937	663	307	143	7774
40 S	127	331	717	1333	2232	3341	4555	5723	6660	7323	7631	7774	7774
45 M	55	109	252	468	745	958	1059	1013	787	510	187	62	6205
45 S	55	163	415	883	1628	2586	3646	4659	5446	5956	6143	6205	6205
50 M	16	46	139	327	590	808	904	858	638	363	93	19	4801
50 S	16	62	202	529	1118	1927	2831	3690	4327	4690	4783	4801	4801
55 M	3	13	58	198	437	659	749	703	489	226	31	3	3570
55 S	3	16	74	273	710	1368	2117	2821	3310	3536	3567	3570	3570
60 M	0	2	17	94	289	509	594	548	344	113	5	0	2516
60 S	0	2	19	113	402	911	1505	2053	2397	2510	2515	2516	2516

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	130	182	297	422	571	691	769	748	601	435	239	142	5227
50 S	130	312	609	1031	1602	2293	3062	3810	4411	4845	5085	5227	5227

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