EDMORE 1NW, NORTH DAKOTA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(322525) EDMORE 1 W
From Year=1905 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 10 120 400 655 841 780 457 169 9 0 3442
40 S 0 0 10 130 530 1185 2026 2807 3263 3432 3442 3442 3442
45 M 0 0 3 61 269 506 686 625 320 90 2 0 2563
45 S 0 0 3 64 334 839 1525 2151 2471 2561 2563 2563 2563
50 M 0 0 1 27 160 360 531 471 201 40 0 0 1793
50 S 0 0 1 28 189 549 1080 1551 1752 1793 1793 1793 1793
55 M 0 0 0 10 82 226 377 322 110 14 0 0 1142
55 S 0 0 0 10 92 318 696 1018 1128 1142 1142 1142 1142
60 M 0 0 0 3 34 118 233 188 52 3 0 0 632
60 S 0 0 0 3 37 156 388 577 628 632 632 632 632
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 0 0 9 92 258 400 536 494 291 127 11 0 2218
50 S 0 0 9 100 359 759 1295 1789 2080 2207 2218 2218 2218
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