LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(294799) LAS CRUCES
From Year=1897 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 176 221 434 679 908 1174 1278 1242 1037 746 314 150 8360
40 S 176 397 831 1510 2418 3592 4870 6111 7149 7895 8209 8360 8360
45 M 76 113 288 530 753 1024 1123 1087 887 593 182 58 6714
45 S 76 190 478 1008 1761 2785 3907 4994 5882 6474 6656 6714 6714
50 M 20 40 160 382 598 874 968 932 737 441 79 14 5246
50 S 20 61 221 604 1202 2076 3043 3975 4712 5153 5232 5246 5246
55 M 2 6 66 241 444 724 813 777 587 295 21 2 3976
55 S 2 8 74 314 758 1482 2294 3071 3658 3953 3975 3976 3976
60 M 0 0 17 121 295 574 658 622 437 165 2 0 2891
60 S 0 0 17 138 433 1007 1664 2286 2723 2888 2891 2891 2891
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 165 209 329 460 581 716 820 796 654 497 262 155 5644
50 S 165 374 703 1163 1744 2461 3280 4076 4730 5227 5489 5644 5644
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