MESQUITE, NEVADA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(265085) MESQUITE
From Year=1942 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	194	286	521	755	1060	1289	1521	1487	1194	858	400	198	9763
40 S	194	479	1001	1756	2817	4106	5627	7114	8308	9166	9566	9763	9763
45 M	82	159	368	605	905	1139	1366	1332	1044	703	255	80	8039
45 S	82	241	609	1214	2120	3259	4625	5957	7001	7704	7959	8039	8039
50 M	19	63	224	457	750	989	1211	1177	894	548	130	16	6479
50 S	19	82	306	763	1514	2503	3714	4891	5785	6333	6463	6479	6479
55 M	2	13	111	315	595	839	1056	1022	744	395	49	1	5142
55 S	2	15	126	441	1036	1875	2932	3953	4697	5093	5142	5142	5142
60 M	0	1	42	187	441	690	901	867	594	252	16	0	3991
60 S	0	1	43	230	671	1361	2262	3129	3723	3975	3991	3991	3991

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	188	225	372	483	638	740	872	866	687	536	310	193	6110
50 S	188	413	785	1267	1905	2645	3517	4383	5070	5606	5917	6110	6110

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