FULLERTON 1 ESE, NORTH DAKOTA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(323287) FULLERTON
From Year=1898 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	1	24	184	495	753	956	894	556	240	23	1	4127
40 S	0	1	25	210	705	1458	2414	3307	3863	4104	4127	4127	4127
45 M	0	0	9	104	353	603	801	739	412	140	6	0	3167
45 S	0	0	9	113	466	1069	1870	2609	3021	3161	3167	3167	3167
50 M	0	0	3	51	227	455	646	584	280	69	1	0	2316
50 S	0	0	3	54	281	736	1382	1966	2245	2314	2315	2316	2316
55 M	0	0	1	21	127	312	491	430	169	28	0	0	1579
55 S	0	0	1	22	149	461	952	1382	1551	1579	1579	1579	1579
60 M	0	0	0	7	61	185	339	284	88	8	0	0	972
60 S	0	0	0	7	67	253	591	876	963	972	972	972	972

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	1	2	23	136	312	470	618	572	351	167	23	1	2676
50 S	1	2	25	162	474	944	1561	2134	2485	2651	2675	2676	2676

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