BOUSE, ARIZONA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(020949) BOUSE
From Year=1932 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	327	418	632	837	1137	1373	1626	1579	1312	972	543	311	11067
40 S	327	745	1377	2214	3351	4724	6351	7930	9242	10214	10757	11067	11067
45 M	187	280	478	687	982	1223	1471	1424	1162	817	394	171	9278
45 S	187	468	945	1632	2614	3837	5309	6733	7895	8712	9106	9278	9278
50 M	78	157	326	537	827	1073	1316	1269	1012	662	254	68	7581
50 S	78	235	562	1099	1926	2999	4315	5585	6597	7259	7513	7581	7581
55 M	19	67	190	389	672	923	1161	1114	862	508	136	16	6058
55 S	19	86	275	664	1337	2260	3421	4535	5397	5905	6041	6058	6058
60 M	2	18	86	251	518	773	1006	959	712	358	55	2	4740
60 S	2	20	106	356	875	1647	2654	3613	4325	4684	4738	4740	4740

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	246	297	424	532	688	800	977	960	793	606	379	239	6941
50 S	246	544	968	1500	2188	2988	3965	4924	5717	6323	6702	6941	6941

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