COLUMBUS, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(292024) COLUMBUS
From Year=1925 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	160	242	446	667	951	1196	1287	1212	1017	729	345	155	8407
40 S	160	402	848	1515	2466	3661	4948	6160	7177	7907	8252	8407	8407
45 M	66	130	298	518	796	1046	1132	1057	867	575	214	65	6764
45 S	66	197	495	1013	1809	2854	3986	5043	5910	6485	6699	6764	6764
50 M	17	52	169	371	641	896	977	902	717	422	109	18	5290
50 S	17	69	238	609	1250	2145	3122	4024	4741	5164	5272	5290	5290
55 M	3	13	73	233	487	746	822	747	568	276	40	3	4009
55 S	3	15	88	322	808	1554	2375	3122	3690	3966	4007	4009	4009
60 M	0	2	20	117	334	596	667	592	419	148	9	0	2902
60 S	0	2	22	138	472	1068	1735	2327	2745	2893	2902	2902	2902

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	150	201	325	451	609	738	824	790	661	476	261	146	5632
50 S	150	351	676	1128	1737	2475	3299	4089	4750	5225	5486	5632	5632

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