BERNALILLO, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(290903) BERNALILLO 1 NNE
From Year=1895 To Year=1982
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	21	63	196	421	693	940	1127	1046	804	476	127	21	5935
40 S	21	84	280	700	1393	2333	3461	4507	5311	5787	5914	5935	5935
45 M	4	18	90	278	538	790	972	891	654	326	47	4	4612
45 S	4	21	111	389	927	1718	2690	3581	4235	4561	4608	4612	4612
50 M	0	2	29	152	386	640	817	736	504	191	9	1	3468
50 S	0	3	31	184	569	1210	2027	2763	3267	3458	3468	3468	3468
55 M	0	0	5	59	239	490	662	581	355	85	1	0	2479
55 S	0	0	6	65	304	794	1456	2038	2393	2478	2479	2479	2479
60 M	0	0	1	14	114	341	507	426	212	24	0	0	1640
60 S	0	0	1	15	129	470	977	1404	1616	1640	1640	1640	1640

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	45	94	204	340	481	580	699	661	524	355	149	53	4185
50 S	45	139	343	683	1163	1743	2442	3103	3627	3982	4132	4185	4185

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