INDIAN SPRINGS, NEVADA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(263980) INDIAN SPRINGS
From Year=1913 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 66 152 328 600 891 1114 1341 1280 1018 658 243 87 7779
40 S 66 218 546 1146 2037 3151 4491 5772 6790 7448 7692 7779 7779
45 M 15 67 192 452 736 964 1186 1125 868 504 126 23 6258
45 S 15 83 275 726 1463 2426 3612 4737 5606 6109 6235 6258 6258
50 M 2 20 87 309 582 814 1031 970 718 354 50 3 4941
50 S 2 22 110 419 1000 1814 2845 3815 4533 4887 4938 4941 4941
55 M 0 3 27 182 428 664 876 815 569 217 12 1 3794
55 S 0 3 30 212 640 1304 2180 2995 3564 3781 3793 3794 3794
60 M 0 0 4 85 284 514 721 660 420 107 1 1 2797
60 S 0 0 4 89 373 887 1608 2268 2688 2795 2796 2797 2797
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 102 156 282 413 558 648 766 736 597 463 242 136 5099
50 S 102 258 540 953 1510 2158 2924 3660 4257 4720 4962 5099 5099
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