SHOSHONE, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(048200) SHOSHONE
From Year=1972 To Year=2011
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	283	393	616	772	1119	1304	1658	1557	1329	961	636	262	10889
40 S	283	676	1292	2064	3183	4487	6145	7702	9030	9992	10627	10889	10889
45 M	138	257	461	622	964	1154	1503	1402	1179	806	487	131	9104
45 S	138	395	856	1478	2442	3596	5099	6501	7679	8486	8973	9104	9104
50 M	36	142	309	472	809	1004	1348	1247	1029	651	345	43	7435
50 S	36	179	487	959	1768	2772	4120	5367	6395	7047	7392	7435	7435
55 M	2	58	172	327	654	854	1193	1092	879	497	215	9	5950
55 S	2	59	231	558	1212	2066	3260	4351	5230	5727	5942	5950	5950
60 M	0	11	70	199	501	704	1038	937	729	347	111	1	4647
60 S	0	11	81	280	781	1485	2523	3460	4188	4535	4647	4647	4647

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	141	218	370	484	706	819	997	942	820	621	388	140	6646
50 S	141	359	729	1213	1919	2738	3735	4677	5497	6118	6506	6646	6646

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