DEMING, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(292436) DEMING
From Year=1914 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	114	199	362	569	851	1105	1231	1167	960	665	291	115	7629
40 S	114	313	675	1244	2095	3201	4432	5598	6558	7223	7514	7629	7629
45 M	40	97	222	421	696	955	1076	1012	810	511	167	38	6044
45 S	40	137	359	780	1477	2432	3508	4519	5329	5840	6006	6044	6044
50 M	9	32	110	279	542	805	921	857	660	359	73	6	4652
50 S	9	41	150	429	971	1777	2698	3554	4214	4573	4646	4652	4652
55 M	1	6	37	153	390	655	766	702	510	218	20	0	3458
55 S	1	7	44	197	588	1243	2009	2710	3220	3438	3458	3458	3458
60 M	0	1	7	61	246	505	611	547	361	102	3	0	2444
60 S	0	1	8	69	315	821	1432	1978	2339	2441	2444	2444	2444

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	133	183	287	402	548	676	785	758	617	444	239	126	5198
50 S	133	316	603	1005	1553	2229	3015	3772	4389	4833	5072	5198	5198

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