ESCALANTE, UTAH

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(422592) ESCALANTE
From Year=1901 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	4	19	98	258	515	772	984	913	651	348	67	5	4634
40 S	4	23	120	379	894	1666	2650	3562	4213	4561	4629	4634	4634
45 M	0	4	35	142	364	622	829	758	501	211	19	1	3485
45 S	0	4	39	181	545	1167	1996	2754	3255	3465	3484	3485	3485
50 M	0	1	8	59	225	472	674	603	354	101	2	0	2500
50 S	0	1	9	69	294	766	1440	2043	2397	2498	2500	2500	2500
55 M	0	0	1	16	113	326	519	448	215	33	0	0	1670
55 S	0	0	1	17	130	456	975	1422	1637	1670	1670	1670	1670
60 M	0	0	0	2	39	192	364	294	99	6	0	0	996
60 S	0	0	0	2	41	233	597	891	990	996	996	996	996

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	8	27	104	209	359	498	616	580	436	266	81	10	3195
50 S	8	35	139	349	708	1206	1822	2402	2838	3104	3184	3195	3195

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