FABENS, TEXAS

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(413033) FABENS 1
From Year=1939 To Year=1977
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 134 199 432 640 908 1125 1249 1191 976 698 352 142 8047
40 S 134 333 765 1405 2313 3438 4688 5879 6855 7553 7905 8047 8047
45 M 56 102 290 491 753 975 1094 1036 826 543 220 56 6443
45 S 56 158 448 939 1692 2667 3762 4798 5624 6167 6387 6443 6443
50 M 16 37 168 345 599 825 939 881 676 390 111 15 5003
50 S 16 53 222 567 1166 1991 2930 3811 4488 4878 4988 5003 5003
55 M 3 8 77 209 445 675 784 726 527 244 34 2 3734
55 S 3 11 87 297 742 1417 2201 2928 3455 3698 3732 3734 3734
60 M 0 1 23 97 295 525 629 571 380 121 5 0 2647
60 S 0 1 23 121 416 941 1571 2142 2522 2643 2647 2647 2647
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 153 193 329 441 584 703 808 772 636 471 283 164 5536
50 S 153 346 675 1115 1699 2402 3210 3982 4618 5089 5372 5536 5536
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