ORANGE COVE, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(046476) ORANGE COVE
From Year=1931 To Year=1990
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	176	280	436	602	835	1021	1244	1194	1012	762	411	196	8170
40 S	176	456	892	1494	2329	3351	4595	5789	6802	7563	7974	8170	8170
45 M	75	152	284	452	680	871	1089	1039	862	607	265	86	6464
45 S	75	227	511	964	1644	2516	3605	4644	5506	6113	6378	6464	6464
50 M	22	60	153	307	526	721	934	884	712	453	140	26	4938
50 S	22	82	235	542	1068	1789	2723	3608	4320	4772	4912	4938	4938
55 M	4	14	61	177	374	571	779	729	562	303	56	4	3636
55 S	4	18	79	256	630	1202	1981	2710	3272	3576	3632	3636	3636
60 M	0	1	15	81	233	422	624	574	413	170	15	0	2550
60 S	0	2	17	98	331	753	1378	1952	2365	2535	2549	2550	2550

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	98	163	268	375	519	625	740	713	620	480	261	111	4972
50 S	98	261	529	904	1423	2048	2788	3501	4121	4601	4862	4972	4972

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 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