MAYHILL RS, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(295502) MAYHILL RANGER STN
From Year=1917 To Year=1976
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 65 76 161 330 574 790 872 821 652 427 170 66 5003
40 S 65 141 302 632 1206 1996 2867 3689 4341 4768 4938 5003 5003
45 M 18 22 69 196 420 640 717 666 502 280 74 16 3621
45 S 18 40 109 306 726 1366 2082 2749 3251 3530 3605 3621 3621
50 M 3 4 21 89 272 490 562 511 353 147 19 3 2472
50 S 3 6 27 116 388 877 1439 1950 2304 2451 2470 2472 2472
55 M 0 0 4 26 139 341 407 356 209 51 2 0 1536
55 S 0 0 4 30 170 510 917 1273 1483 1534 1536 1536 1536
60 M 0 0 0 4 49 197 252 202 86 7 0 0 798
60 S 0 0 0 5 53 250 502 705 791 798 798 798 798
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 93 99 169 272 401 511 552 516 415 317 178 99 3621
50 S 93 192 361 633 1034 1544 2096 2612 3027 3344 3522 3621 3621
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