ELGIN, NEVADA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(262557) ELGIN
From Year=1951 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	95	146	316	478	757	990	1251	1192	935	632	260	78	7130
40 S	95	241	557	1035	1792	2782	4033	5226	6161	6792	7053	7130	7130
45 M	30	63	185	335	602	840	1096	1037	785	479	144	21	5619
45 S	30	93	279	614	1216	2056	3152	4190	4974	5454	5598	5619	5619
50 M	5	20	86	207	449	690	941	882	635	335	62	2	4316
50 S	5	25	112	319	768	1458	2399	3282	3916	4252	4314	4316	4316
55 M	0	4	28	103	305	541	786	727	485	204	18	0	3203
55 S	0	5	33	136	442	983	1769	2496	2981	3184	3203	3203	3203
60 M	0	0	5	38	179	394	631	572	337	97	2	0	2256
60 S	0	0	5	43	222	616	1247	1819	2156	2254	2256	2256	2256

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	83	111	234	328	491	593	738	714	583	422	193	69	4560
50 S	83	195	429	757	1249	1841	2579	3293	3876	4298	4491	4560	4560

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