CRANE 2E, TEXAS

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(412082) CRANE
From Year=1928 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	233	322	576	821	1084	1247	1347	1318	1073	825	460	251	9557
40 S	233	555	1131	1952	3036	4283	5629	6948	8021	8846	9306	9557	9557
45 M	129	205	430	671	929	1097	1192	1163	923	671	325	143	7879
45 S	129	334	765	1436	2365	3462	4654	5817	6740	7411	7736	7879	7879
50 M	59	113	294	524	774	947	1037	1008	773	518	207	66	6320
50 S	59	172	465	989	1764	2710	3747	4755	5529	6047	6254	6320	6320
55 M	19	52	176	381	620	797	882	853	624	372	111	22	4909
55 S	19	71	247	628	1248	2044	2926	3779	4404	4776	4887	4909	4909
60 M	4	18	88	249	467	647	727	698	477	237	45	5	3661
60 S	4	22	109	358	825	1472	2199	2897	3374	3611	3656	3661	3661

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	190	236	388	533	699	810	881	861	707	535	306	193	6339
50 S	190	426	814	1347	2046	2855	3736	4597	5305	5840	6146	6339	6339

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