DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(042319) DEATH VALLEY
From Year=1961 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 396 557 855 1071 1422 1655 1916 1855 1526 1157 668 364 13440
40 S 396 952 1808 2879 4301 5955 7871 9726 11252 12408 13076 13440 13440
45 M 247 416 700 921 1267 1505 1761 1700 1376 1002 518 216 11628
45 S 247 663 1363 2284 3551 5056 6816 8516 9892 10894 11411 11628 11628
50 M 120 279 545 771 1112 1355 1606 1545 1226 847 370 94 9868
50 S 120 399 944 1716 2827 4182 5787 7332 8558 9405 9774 9868 9868
55 M 41 154 392 621 957 1205 1451 1390 1076 692 232 28 8238
55 S 41 195 588 1209 2166 3370 4821 6210 7287 7978 8210 8238 8238
60 M 10 62 249 472 802 1055 1296 1235 926 537 120 6 6769
60 S 10 72 321 793 1595 2650 3945 5180 6106 6643 6763 6769 6769
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 256 343 540 685 894 1016 1192 1146 925 725 423 238 8384
50 S 256 599 1139 1825 2718 3735 4927 6073 6998 7723 8146 8384 8384
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