MENTONE 2 S, TEXAS

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(415828) MENTONE 2 S
From Year=1943 To Year=1974
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 210 224 499 744 1038 1240 1375 1312 1073 740 412 159 9025
40 S 210 434 933 1677 2715 3954 5329 6641 7714 8454 8866 9025 9025
45 M 110 123 362 597 883 1090 1220 1157 923 585 276 76 7402
45 S 110 234 595 1192 2075 3164 4385 5541 6464 7050 7326 7402 7402
50 M 45 55 234 454 728 940 1065 1002 774 432 159 28 5916
50 S 45 100 334 788 1516 2456 3521 4522 5296 5728 5888 5916 5916
55 M 11 15 131 319 573 790 910 847 625 282 71 5 4579
55 S 11 26 157 476 1049 1839 2749 3596 4221 4504 4574 4579 4579
60 M 2 4 59 193 422 640 755 692 479 155 22 0 3423
60 S 2 6 65 258 680 1319 2075 2766 3245 3400 3422 3423 3423
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 200 192 360 484 648 764 864 830 678 493 314 160 5988
50 S 200 392 752 1236 1884 2648 3513 4342 5021 5514 5828 5988 5988
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