ECHO BAY, NEVADA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(262497) ECHO BAY
From Year=1989 To Year=2011
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 266 364 619 827 1187 1453 1692 1662 1349 951 498 228 11095
40 S 266 630 1249 2076 3263 4715 6407 8069 9417 10369 10866 11095 11095
45 M 129 228 465 677 1032 1303 1537 1507 1199 796 350 101 9322
45 S 129 356 821 1498 2530 3833 5369 6876 8075 8871 9221 9322 9322
50 M 41 110 316 527 877 1153 1382 1352 1049 641 212 29 7688
50 S 41 151 467 994 1871 3024 4405 5757 6806 7447 7659 7688 7688
55 M 7 34 185 381 722 1003 1227 1197 899 488 104 5 6251
55 S 7 42 226 607 1329 2332 3558 4755 5654 6142 6245 6251 6251
60 M 0 5 84 247 568 853 1072 1042 749 341 34 1 4996
60 S 0 6 90 337 905 1758 2829 3871 4620 4961 4995 4996 4996
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 143 199 362 519 762 904 1052 1037 857 609 284 123 6850
50 S 143 342 704 1223 1984 2888 3940 4977 5834 6443 6727 6850 6850
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