MINOCQUA, WISCONSIN

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(475516) MINOCQUA DAM
From Year=1903 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	0	0	12	110	400	662	829	750	476	201	20	0	3461
40 S	0	0	12	122	522	1183	2013	2763	3239	3440	3460	3461	3461
45 M	0	0	4	56	268	512	674	595	335	112	6	0	2563
45 S	0	0	4	61	329	842	1516	2111	2445	2557	2563	2563	2563
50 M	0	0	1	25	163	367	519	440	211	52	1	0	1781
50 S	0	0	1	27	190	557	1076	1517	1727	1780	1781	1781	1781
55 M	0	0	1	10	86	235	366	291	115	20	0	0	1124
55 S	0	0	1	10	97	331	697	989	1103	1123	1124	1124	1124
60 M	0	0	0	3	39	127	222	161	53	6	0	0	611
60 S	0	0	0	4	42	169	392	553	605	611	611	611	611

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	0	0	11	89	261	409	527	466	281	122	13	0	2180
50 S	0	1	11	100	361	771	1298	1764	2044	2167	2180	2180	2180

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