BEAVER, UTAH

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(420519) BEAVER
From Year=1889 To Year=1990
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	6	17	61	195	424	660	903	849	577	280	55	10	4038
40 S	6	22	84	279	703	1364	2266	3116	3693	3973	4028	4038	4038
45 M	1	4	17	97	281	511	748	694	430	156	15	1	2954
45 S	1	4	21	118	399	910	1657	2352	2781	2938	2952	2954	2954
50 M	0	0	2	35	158	364	593	539	288	65	2	0	2047
50 S	0	1	3	38	196	560	1152	1692	1980	2045	2047	2047	2047
55 M	0	0	0	7	66	226	438	385	161	17	0	0	1300
55 S	0	0	0	7	74	300	738	1123	1283	1300	1300	1300	1300
60 M	0	0	0	1	16	112	284	233	63	2	0	0	710
60 S	0	0	0	1	17	129	413	645	708	710	710	710	710

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	14	27	80	182	325	457	578	551	418	259	89	22	3003
50 S	14	41	121	303	627	1085	1662	2214	2632	2892	2981	3003	3003

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 Jul 28, 2006
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