BLANDING, UTAH

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(420738) BLANDING
From Year=1904 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	3	20	101	271	542	821	1039	973	704	382	77	5	4938
40 S	3	23	123	394	936	1757	2796	3769	4473	4855	4932	4938	4938
45 M	0	3	38	156	392	671	884	818	554	245	24	0	3786
45 S	0	3	41	197	589	1260	2144	2962	3516	3761	3786	3786	3786
50 M	0	0	10	71	254	521	729	663	407	129	4	0	2789
50 S	0	0	10	82	336	857	1586	2249	2655	2785	2789	2789	2789
55 M	0	0	1	23	137	375	574	508	265	50	0	0	1933
55 S	0	0	1	24	161	536	1110	1618	1883	1933	1933	1933	1933
60 M	0	0	0	4	55	238	419	353	140	12	0	0	1221
60 S	0	0	0	4	59	297	716	1069	1209	1221	1221	1221	1221

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	4	20	86	195	354	526	668	629	448	254	67	7	3257
50 S	4	24	110	305	660	1186	1854	2482	2930	3184	3250	3257	3257

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