DALTON, WISCONSIN

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(471970) DALTON
From Year=1944 To Year=2007
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual
40 M 1 4 51 230 545 810 966 913 634 333 66 5 4558
40 S 1 4 55 286 831 1641 2607 3520 4153 4486 4552 4558 4558
45 M 0 1 25 135 397 660 811 758 485 213 29 2 3517
45 S 0 1 26 162 558 1218 2030 2788 3273 3486 3516 3517 3517
50 M 0 0 12 72 262 510 656 603 343 121 10 0 2591
50 S 0 0 12 84 346 856 1513 2116 2459 2580 2591 2591 2591
55 M 0 0 4 33 153 365 501 449 218 58 3 0 1784
55 S 0 0 4 37 191 555 1057 1505 1723 1781 1784 1784 1784
60 M 0 0 1 13 76 230 347 298 120 24 0 0 1110
60 S 0 0 1 14 91 321 668 966 1087 1110 1110 1110 1110
Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M 0 2 34 152 339 522 642 598 393 199 35 3 2920
50 S 0 2 36 188 527 1049 1690 2289 2682 2881 2917 2920 2920
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