BAKER, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(040436) BAKER
From Year=1971 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	279	398	657	840	1182	1426	1662	1601	1311	958	531	257	11102
40 S	279	676	1334	2173	3355	4781	6443	8044	9356	10314	10845	11102	11102
45 M	143	261	502	690	1027	1276	1507	1446	1161	803	383	128	9328
45 S	143	404	907	1596	2623	3899	5406	6852	8014	8817	9200	9328	9328
50 M	49	140	349	540	872	1126	1352	1291	1011	648	245	41	7665
50 S	49	190	539	1079	1950	3077	4429	5720	6731	7379	7624	7665	7665
55 M	10	52	208	392	717	976	1197	1136	861	494	132	7	6183
55 S	10	63	271	662	1379	2355	3553	4688	5550	6044	6176	6183	6183
60 M	1	11	98	255	562	826	1042	981	711	346	57	0	4891
60 S	1	12	111	365	927	1753	2796	3776	4488	4834	4891	4891	4891

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	205	265	420	522	722	843	979	952	796	602	352	194	6853
50 S	205	470	890	1412	2134	2977	3957	4909	5705	6307	6658	6853	6853

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