LATHROP WELLS, NEVADA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(264457) LATHROP WELLS
From Year=1942 To Year=1963
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	136	230	401	651	894	1155	1407	1365	1153	807	409	214	8822
40 S	136	366	767	1418	2312	3467	4874	6239	7391	8198	8607	8822	8822
45 M	55	126	256	502	739	1005	1252	1210	1003	652	267	101	7168
45 S	55	181	437	939	1678	2683	3935	5145	6147	6799	7066	7168	7168
50 M	16	55	133	359	584	855	1097	1055	853	499	150	32	5687
50 S	16	71	205	564	1147	2002	3099	4154	5007	5505	5656	5687	5687
55 M	2	18	50	226	429	705	942	900	703	353	73	4	4405
55 S	2	20	70	296	725	1430	2372	3272	3974	4328	4400	4405	4405
60 M	0	3	11	117	288	555	787	745	553	221	25	0	3304
60 S	0	3	14	131	418	973	1760	2505	3058	3279	3304	3304	3304

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	118	171	281	424	564	701	837	822	704	520	286	171	5599
50 S	118	289	570	993	1557	2259	3096	3918	4622	5142	5428	5599	5599

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