SALT FLAT 10 ENE, TEXAS

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(417921) SALT FLAT 10 ENE
From Year=1959 To Year=1977
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 123 191 414 672 949 1163 1254 1203 979 681 325 145 8100
40 S 123 314 727 1399 2348 3511 4766 5969 6948 7629 7954 8100 8100
45 M 51 95 277 523 794 1013 1099 1048 829 528 198 61 6518
45 S 51 147 424 946 1741 2754 3854 4902 5731 6259 6456 6518 6518
50 M 15 36 159 378 639 863 944 893 679 378 98 17 5102
50 S 15 52 211 589 1229 2092 3037 3930 4609 4987 5085 5102 5102
55 M 3 10 74 243 485 713 789 738 532 236 33 3 3859
55 S 3 13 86 329 814 1527 2317 3055 3587 3823 3857 3859 3859
60 M 0 1 23 127 334 564 634 583 387 119 5 0 2778
60 S 0 1 25 151 486 1049 1684 2267 2654 2773 2778 2778 2778
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 128 173 303 440 607 742 824 794 646 440 234 136 5466
50 S 128 301 604 1044 1652 2393 3217 4011 4657 5097 5331 5466 5466
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