SCOFIELD DAM, UTAH

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(427724) SCOFIELD DAM
From Year=1948 To Year=1991
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	0	0	1	36	196	424	652	593	338	108	3	0	2350
40 S	0	0	1	37	233	657	1309	1901	2239	2347	2350	2350	2350
45 M	0	0	0	7	93	282	497	438	203	34	0	0	1554
45 S	0	0	0	8	101	383	879	1317	1520	1554	1554	1554	1554
50 M	0	0	0	1	28	157	342	285	91	4	0	0	909
50 S	0	0	0	1	29	186	528	813	905	909	909	909	909
55 M	0	0	0	0	4	62	190	143	26	0	0	0	425
55 S	0	0	0	0	4	66	257	399	425	425	425	425	425
60 M	0	0	0	0	0	14	63	39	3	0	0	0	119
60 S	0	0	0	0	0	14	77	115	119	119	119	119	119

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	0	0	5	47	163	304	432	395	261	125	11	0	1745
50 S	0	0	5	53	216	520	952	1347	1608	1734	1745	1745	1745

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