CANDO, NORTH DAKOTA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(321288) CANDO 1 NNW
From Year=1901 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	0	0	10	127	392	669	849	790	495	203	11	0	3546
40 S	0	0	11	137	529	1198	2047	2837	3332	3535	3546	3546	3546
45 M	0	0	3	64	259	519	694	635	356	110	2	0	2643
45 S	0	0	3	67	326	845	1539	2174	2530	2640	2643	2643	2643
50 M	0	0	1	26	151	372	539	480	233	48	0	0	1851
50 S	0	0	1	28	179	551	1090	1570	1802	1851	1851	1851	1851
55 M	0	0	1	9	78	239	386	330	130	16	0	0	1189
55 S	0	0	1	9	88	327	712	1043	1173	1189	1189	1189	1189
60 M	0	0	0	2	36	130	241	197	62	5	0	0	672
60 S	0	0	0	2	39	168	409	606	668	672	672	672	672

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	0	0	12	105	273	417	538	505	324	153	12	0	2341
50 S	0	0	12	117	391	808	1346	1852	2175	2328	2340	2341	2341

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