CLOUDCROFT, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(291931) CLOUDCROFT
From Year=1987 To Year=2006
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	2	7	35	148	370	550	588	550	416	209	38	4	2917
40 S	2	9	44	192	562	1112	1701	2251	2667	2876	2914	2917	2917
45 M	0	0	5	58	222	400	433	395	267	88	8	0	1877
45 S	0	0	6	63	286	686	1119	1514	1781	1869	1877	1877	1877
50 M	0	0	0	13	99	252	278	240	127	19	1	0	1030
50 S	0	0	0	14	112	364	642	882	1010	1029	1030	1030	1030
55 M	0	0	0	1	27	115	127	94	31	2	0	0	396
55 S	0	0	0	1	28	143	271	364	395	396	396	396	396
60 M	0	0	0	0	4	29	23	9	1	0	0	0	65
60 S	0	0	0	0	4	32	55	64	65	65	65	65	65

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	6	11	43	123	248	350	333	303	253	156	44	8	1877
50 S	6	17	60	183	431	781	1113	1416	1670	1826	1869	1877	1877

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 Jul 28, 2006
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