COWLES, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Heating Degree Days

Station:(292139) WINSORS
From Year=1894 To Year=1964
Heating Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
65	1218	1051	1014	774	565	293	179	210	375	664	914	1164	8422
60	1063	910	859	624	410	153	51	72	227	509	764	1009	6653
57	970	825	766	534	318	87	14	24	146	416	674	916	5691
55	908	769	704	474	257	55	5	9	100	354	614	854	5105
50	753	628	549	325	123	13	0	1	27	207	464	699	3791

Heating Degree Day units are computed as the difference between the base temperature and the daily average temperature. (Base Temp. - Daily Ave. Temp.) One unit is accumulated for each degree Fahrenheit the average temperature is below the base temperature. Negative numbers are discarded. Example: If the days high temperature was 65 and the low temperature was 31, the base 50 heating degree day units is 50 - ((65 + 31) / 2) = 2. This is done for each day of the month and summed.
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