MIAMI, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(295691) MIAMI
From Year=1907 To Year=1959
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	37	51	122	274	511	778	906	856	673	382	103	31	4723
40 S	37	88	210	484	995	1773	2679	3534	4207	4589	4692	4723	4723
45 M	11	16	53	155	362	628	751	701	524	246	40	9	3496
45 S	11	27	80	235	598	1226	1977	2677	3201	3447	3487	3496	3496
50 M	2	3	17	69	225	479	596	546	376	132	10	2	2458
50 S	2	5	22	91	317	796	1392	1937	2314	2446	2456	2458	2458
55 M	0	0	3	19	113	332	441	391	236	53	1	0	1591
55 S	0	1	3	23	136	468	910	1300	1536	1589	1590	1591	1591
60 M	0	0	0	3	41	193	287	237	112	14	0	0	888
60 S	0	0	0	3	44	237	524	761	873	888	888	888	888

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	59	80	142	234	352	502	573	544	453	307	141	61	3449
50 S	59	139	281	516	868	1370	1943	2487	2940	3247	3387	3449	3449

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