SOCORRO, TEXAS

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(418435) SOCORRO
From Year=1918 To Year=1950
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	109	217	386	612	894	1110	1197	1148	960	690	303	135	7761
40 S	109	326	711	1323	2217	3327	4525	5673	6633	7323	7626	7761	7761
45 M	37	106	241	463	739	960	1042	993	810	536	172	47	6146
45 S	37	143	384	847	1586	2546	3588	4582	5392	5928	6100	6146	6146
50 M	8	33	121	317	584	810	887	838	660	383	74	8	4726
50 S	8	41	162	479	1064	1874	2761	3600	4260	4643	4717	4726	4726
55 M	1	6	42	184	430	660	732	683	510	240	19	0	3507
55 S	1	7	48	232	662	1322	2055	2738	3248	3488	3507	3507	3507
60 M	0	1	9	80	278	510	577	528	362	120	2	0	2467
60 S	0	1	9	89	367	877	1455	1983	2345	2465	2467	2467	2467

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	147	210	323	438	570	676	759	740	617	471	282	163	5396
50 S	147	358	680	1118	1688	2364	3123	3863	4480	4951	5233	5396	5396

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