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Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(478978) WAUSAUKEE
From Year=1897 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	2	0	14	134	483	658	953	784	602	261	26	2	3919
40 S	2	2	16	150	633	1291	2244	3028	3630	3891	3917	3919	3919
45 M	0	0	4	69	337	508	798	629	452	152	10	0	2960
45 S	0	0	4	73	410	919	1717	2346	2798	2950	2960	2960	2960
50 M	0	0	0	30	217	364	643	474	310	71	3	0	2114
50 S	0	0	0	31	248	612	1255	1729	2039	2111	2114	2114	2114
55 M	0	0	0	9	120	231	490	322	187	29	1	0	1388
55 S	0	0	0	9	129	359	849	1171	1358	1387	1388	1388	1388
60 M	0	0	0	2	55	121	340	182	94	10	0	0	804
60 S	0	0	0	2	57	178	519	701	794	804	804	804	804

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	1	0	16	111	312	426	625	491	376	152	15	1	2526
50 S	1	1	17	128	440	866	1491	1982	2358	2510	2525	2526	2526

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