COLUMBUS, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(292013) COLUMBUS
From Year=1914 To Year=1945
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	116	246	438	667	950	1201	1294	1247	1012	740	306	173	8390
40 S	116	362	800	1467	2417	3618	4912	6159	7171	7911	8217	8390	8390
45 M	39	131	290	517	795	1051	1139	1092	862	587	181	70	6754
45 S	39	170	461	977	1772	2823	3962	5054	5916	6503	6684	6754	6754
50 M	8	50	161	369	640	901	984	937	713	437	85	18	5302
50 S	8	58	219	588	1228	2129	3113	4050	4762	5199	5284	5302	5302
55 M	1	13	67	231	487	751	829	782	564	294	30	2	4051
55 S	1	14	81	312	799	1549	2378	3160	3724	4018	4048	4051	4051
60 M	0	1	18	118	336	601	674	627	418	165	6	0	2962
60 S	0	1	19	137	472	1073	1747	2374	2792	2957	2962	2962	2962

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	100	174	300	440	607	759	829	810	669	473	232	143	5538
50 S	100	275	575	1015	1622	2381	3210	4021	4690	5163	5395	5538	5538

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