SHELDON, NEVADA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(267443) SHELDON
From Year=1933 To Year=1972
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	2	4	16	75	220	375	662	637	424	202	39	7	2663
40 S	2	6	22	97	317	692	1354	1991	2415	2617	2656	2663	2663
45 M	0	0	3	27	118	241	507	483	289	107	10	1	1786
45 S	0	0	3	30	148	389	896	1379	1668	1775	1785	1786	1786
50 M	0	0	0	6	48	135	354	333	170	43	1	0	1090
50 S	0	0	0	6	54	189	543	876	1046	1089	1090	1090	1090
55 M	0	0	0	0	13	62	210	194	78	10	0	0	567
55 S	0	0	0	0	13	75	285	479	557	567	567	567	567
60 M	0	0	0	0	1	20	92	82	24	1	0	0	222
60 S	0	0	0	0	1	22	114	197	221	222	222	222	222

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	1	2	15	68	169	265	454	440	308	151	29	4	1906
50 S	1	3	18	86	255	519	973	1413	1722	1873	1902	1906	1906

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