HITE, UTAH

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(423968) HITE
From Year=1900 To Year=1962
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 40 118 340 595 896 1152 1390 1330 1026 662 236 42 7826
40 S 40 158 498 1093 1989 3140 4530 5860 6886 7548 7785 7826 7826
45 M 9 47 202 445 741 1002 1235 1175 876 508 121 11 6371
45 S 9 56 258 703 1444 2445 3680 4855 5731 6239 6360 6371 6371
50 M 1 13 93 301 586 852 1080 1020 726 357 42 2 5071
50 S 1 14 106 407 993 1845 2924 3944 4671 5027 5069 5071 5071
55 M 0 2 28 173 433 702 925 865 576 218 8 0 3930
55 S 0 2 30 203 636 1338 2262 3127 3704 3922 3930 3930 3930
60 M 0 0 5 78 288 552 770 710 428 108 0 0 2939
60 S 0 0 5 83 371 923 1692 2402 2831 2939 2939 2939 2939
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 30 91 227 379 572 715 865 837 653 426 166 31 4992
50 S 30 121 347 726 1298 2013 2878 3715 4369 4795 4961 4992 4992
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