ANCHO, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(290394) ANCHO
From Year=1909 To Year=1971
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	29	62	176	372	628	866	1001	924	726	436	128	29	5375
40 S	29	91	267	638	1266	2132	3133	4057	4783	5219	5346	5375	5375
45 M	6	19	83	230	474	716	846	769	576	289	45	5	4058
45 S	6	25	108	338	811	1527	2373	3143	3718	4007	4053	4058	4058
50 M	0	4	28	111	323	566	691	614	426	157	7	0	2926
50 S	0	4	32	143	465	1031	1722	2336	2762	2919	2926	2926	2926
55 M	0	0	6	32	182	416	536	459	279	56	0	0	1967
55 S	0	0	6	38	220	636	1172	1632	1911	1967	1967	1967	1967
60 M	0	0	0	6	78	269	381	304	143	11	0	0	1193
60 S	0	0	0	6	84	354	735	1039	1182	1193	1193	1193	1193

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	41	75	167	287	432	550	646	592	464	318	136	43	3751
50 S	41	116	283	570	1001	1551	2197	2789	3254	3572	3708	3751	3751

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