LAUGHLIN, NEVADA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(264480) LAUGHLIN
From Year=1988 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	437	497	726	933	1261	1482	1730	1687	1424	1083	656	401	12318
40 S	437	934	1660	2594	3855	5337	7067	8754	10178	11261	11917	12318	12318
45 M	284	357	571	783	1106	1332	1575	1532	1274	928	506	250	10499
45 S	284	641	1212	1995	3102	4434	6009	7541	8815	9743	10249	10499	10499
50 M	145	221	416	633	951	1182	1420	1377	1124	773	359	117	8719
50 S	145	366	783	1416	2367	3549	4970	6346	7471	8243	8602	8719	8719
55 M	47	107	270	484	796	1032	1265	1222	974	618	221	35	7072
55 S	47	154	424	908	1704	2737	4002	5224	6198	6816	7037	7072	7072
60 M	8	35	145	340	642	882	1110	1067	824	465	109	5	5632
60 S	8	44	188	528	1170	2052	3162	4229	5053	5518	5627	5632	5632

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	235	283	446	586	785	889	1048	1029	880	685	395	212	7474
50 S	235	519	965	1551	2336	3225	4273	5302	6182	6868	7263	7474	7474

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