CHEROKEE, OKLAHOMA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(341724) CHEROKEE
From Year=1915 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 63 121 317 564 878 1147 1347 1321 1013 681 260 82 7795
40 S 63 184 501 1065 1943 3090 4436 5758 6771 7452 7712 7795 7795
45 M 23 60 204 420 723 997 1192 1166 863 529 154 33 6365
45 S 23 84 288 708 1430 2427 3619 4785 5648 6178 6332 6365 6365
50 M 7 24 117 287 569 847 1037 1011 713 385 79 10 5087
50 S 7 31 148 436 1005 1851 2888 3900 4613 4997 5077 5087 5087
55 M 2 8 58 176 418 697 882 856 565 254 34 3 3952
55 S 2 9 67 243 661 1358 2240 3096 3661 3915 3949 3952 3952
60 M 0 2 23 92 278 547 727 701 420 145 12 0 2950
60 S 0 2 26 118 396 943 1670 2372 2792 2937 2950 2950 2950
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 64 103 225 362 566 751 868 850 657 436 180 73 5136
50 S 64 167 392 754 1320 2071 2939 3789 4446 4882 5063 5136 5136
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