CORONA, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(292093) CORONA
From Year=1909 To Year=1977
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	31	49	141	300	560	798	911	864	677	404	122	32	4890
40 S	31	81	222	522	1082	1880	2791	3654	4332	4736	4858	4890	4890
45 M	7	14	63	175	408	648	756	709	528	261	47	7	3624
45 S	7	22	84	259	667	1315	2071	2780	3308	3570	3617	3624	3624
50 M	1	2	19	81	263	498	601	554	381	139	12	1	2551
50 S	1	3	22	102	365	863	1464	2018	2399	2538	2550	2551	2551
55 M	0	0	3	26	138	349	446	399	239	54	1	0	1656
55 S	0	0	3	28	167	516	962	1361	1600	1654	1656	1656	1656
60 M	0	0	0	5	52	208	292	245	115	14	0	0	931
60 S	0	0	0	5	57	265	557	802	917	931	931	931	931

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	28	46	119	217	369	516	588	552	428	278	105	32	3278
50 S	28	74	193	411	780	1296	1884	2436	2864	3141	3246	3278	3278

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