BORGER, TEXAS

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(410958) BORGER
From Year=1949 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 101 151 327 557 844 1078 1239 1191 934 640 269 108 7439
40 S 101 252 579 1136 1980 3058 4297 5488 6422 7062 7331 7439 7439
45 M 45 79 209 415 689 928 1084 1036 784 489 163 47 5968
45 S 45 123 333 747 1436 2364 3449 4485 5269 5757 5920 5968 5968
50 M 15 33 117 282 535 778 929 881 635 345 83 16 4649
50 S 15 48 165 447 982 1760 2690 3571 4205 4551 4633 4649 4649
55 M 3 10 54 168 387 628 774 726 487 217 33 4 3492
55 S 3 13 68 236 623 1251 2025 2751 3239 3455 3488 3492 3492
60 M 0 2 20 82 250 479 619 571 344 114 9 0 2490
60 S 0 3 22 105 354 833 1452 2024 2367 2481 2490 2490 2490
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 95 130 240 362 530 698 811 783 606 406 190 96 4949
50 S 95 225 465 827 1357 2056 2867 3651 4257 4663 4853 4949 4949
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