NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(265705) NORTH LAS VEGAS
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	224	298	542	757	1072	1298	1536	1487	1207	856	418	202	9896
40 S	224	522	1064	1821	2892	4190	5726	7213	8419	9276	9694	9896	9896
45 M	104	173	390	607	917	1148	1381	1332	1057	701	278	88	8174
45 S	104	276	666	1273	2189	3337	4718	6050	7107	7808	8086	8174	8174
50 M	31	77	250	458	762	998	1226	1177	907	547	156	24	6612
50 S	31	109	359	816	1578	2576	3802	4979	5885	6432	6587	6612	6612
55 M	4	25	133	314	607	848	1071	1022	757	396	66	3	5246
55 S	4	29	162	477	1083	1931	3002	4024	4781	5176	5243	5246	5246
60 M	0	4	56	189	454	698	916	867	607	256	19	0	4066
60 S	0	4	61	250	704	1401	2318	3185	3791	4047	4066	4066	4066

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	161	204	354	487	680	783	918	896	739	555	284	154	6217
50 S	161	366	720	1206	1886	2670	3588	4484	5223	5778	6063	6217	6217

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