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Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(056225) OVID
From Year=1941 To Year=1959
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	9	11	72	260	493	771	1080	1063	649	365	62	5	4841
40 S	9	20	92	353	845	1616	2696	3759	4408	4773	4836	4841	4841
45 M	1	1	29	151	359	623	925	908	501	237	19	0	3753
45 S	1	2	31	182	541	1163	2088	2996	3497	3734	3753	3753	3753
50 M	0	0	10	69	244	476	770	753	359	130	3	0	2812
50 S	0	0	10	79	323	798	1568	2321	2680	2809	2812	2812	2812
55 M	0	0	2	22	146	336	615	598	233	56	1	0	2008
55 S	0	0	2	24	169	506	1120	1719	1951	2007	2008	2008	2008
60 M	0	0	0	4	74	212	460	444	129	21	0	0	1344
60 S	0	0	0	4	79	291	750	1194	1324	1344	1344	1344	1344

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	19	22	78	176	303	471	687	672	416	266	82	12	3203
50 S	19	40	118	294	597	1068	1755	2427	2843	3109	3191	3203	3203

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