SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Heating Degree Days

Station:(298387) SOCORRO
From Year=1914 To Year=2006
Heating Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
65	860	627	485	229	61	2	0	0	22	221	593	856	3957
60	705	486	332	115	17	0	0	0	5	106	443	701	2910
57	612	402	247	67	7	0	0	0	2	60	354	608	2359
55	550	346	195	45	4	0	0	0	1	39	297	546	2024
50	398	216	92	14	1	0	0	0	0	12	170	393	1294

Heating Degree Day units are computed as the difference between the base temperature and the daily average temperature. (Base Temp. - Daily Ave. Temp.) One unit is accumulated for each degree Fahrenheit the average temperature is below the base temperature. Negative numbers are discarded. Example: If the days high temperature was 65 and the low temperature was 31, the base 50 heating degree day units is 50 - ((65 + 31) / 2) = 2. This is done for each day of the month and summed.
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