ALICE, TEXAS

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(410144) ALICE
From Year=1893 To Year=2008
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	509	567	807	988	1191	1299	1401	1416	1242	1054	756	561	11790
40 S	509	1076	1883	2870	4061	5361	6762	8177	9419	10473	11229	11790	11790
45 M	369	433	654	838	1036	1149	1246	1261	1092	899	607	416	9998
45 S	369	801	1455	2292	3329	4478	5724	6984	8076	8975	9583	9998	9998
50 M	245	307	504	688	881	999	1091	1106	942	744	463	284	8253
50 S	245	552	1056	1743	2624	3623	4715	5820	6762	7506	7969	8253	8253
55 M	146	198	361	539	726	849	936	951	792	590	327	176	6590
55 S	146	344	705	1244	1970	2819	3755	4705	5497	6088	6414	6590	6590
60 M	76	111	233	393	571	699	781	796	642	438	209	95	5043
60 S	76	187	419	812	1383	2082	2863	3659	4301	4739	4948	5043	5043

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	314	353	521	662	816	877	928	929	837	706	489	347	7780
50 S	314	667	1188	1851	2667	3544	4472	5400	6238	6944	7432	7780	7780

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