VALLEY OF FIRE SP, NEVADA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(268588) VALLEY OF FIRE ST PK
From Year=1972 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	254	355	574	794	1138	1410	1645	1578	1303	950	503	248	10752
40 S	254	609	1183	1977	3115	4525	6171	7749	9051	10002	10505	10752	10752
45 M	126	222	420	644	983	1260	1490	1423	1153	795	357	120	8994
45 S	126	349	769	1413	2396	3656	5146	6569	7722	8517	8874	8994	8994
50 M	44	111	274	495	828	1110	1335	1268	1003	640	225	37	7370
50 S	44	155	429	924	1752	2862	4197	5465	6468	7109	7333	7370	7370
55 M	8	39	151	351	673	960	1180	1113	853	487	117	5	5937
55 S	8	46	197	549	1222	2182	3362	4475	5328	5815	5932	5937	5937
60 M	0	8	67	224	520	810	1025	958	703	340	48	0	4704
60 S	0	9	76	299	819	1630	2655	3613	4316	4656	4704	4704	4704

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	121	179	324	498	742	896	1036	999	848	614	275	117	6648
50 S	121	299	624	1122	1863	2760	3796	4795	5643	6257	6531	6648	6648

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