RAINIER PARADISE RNG, WASHINGTON

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(456898) RAINIER PARADISE RNGER
From Year=1916 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	6	7	12	35	108	191	390	409	279	118	24	7	1585
40 S	6	13	25	60	168	358	748	1157	1436	1554	1579	1585	1585
45 M	1	2	3	13	52	105	257	271	176	60	9	2	949
45 S	1	3	6	19	70	175	432	703	879	939	948	949	949
50 M	0	0	0	3	21	50	150	161	99	25	2	0	513
50 S	0	0	1	4	25	75	226	387	485	511	513	513	513
55 M	0	0	0	0	6	20	76	82	46	8	0	0	239
55 S	0	0	0	1	7	26	102	184	231	239	239	239	239
60 M	0	0	0	0	1	5	31	33	16	2	0	0	89
60 S	0	0	0	0	1	7	37	71	87	89	89	89	89

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	2	3	6	20	59	100	215	220	147	55	10	2	839
50 S	2	5	10	30	89	189	405	625	772	827	837	839	839

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