BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(040439) BAKERSFIELD
From Year=1893 To Year=1937
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	211	351	522	662	908	1090	1328	1272	1018	784	465	248	8859
40 S	211	562	1084	1746	2655	3745	5073	6346	7363	8147	8611	8859	8859
45 M	97	218	369	512	753	940	1173	1117	868	629	317	121	7115
45 S	97	315	684	1196	1949	2890	4063	5180	6048	6677	6994	7115	7115
50 M	33	105	227	364	598	790	1018	962	718	474	180	42	5513
50 S	33	139	366	730	1329	2119	3137	4100	4817	5291	5471	5513	5513
55 M	7	32	112	227	445	640	863	807	568	322	76	10	4109
55 S	7	39	151	378	823	1463	2326	3134	3701	4023	4099	4109	4109
60 M	0	5	41	115	298	491	708	652	418	184	20	1	2934
60 S	0	5	47	162	460	950	1659	2311	2729	2913	2933	2934	2934

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	129	219	330	417	569	666	787	752	619	499	321	165	5472
50 S	129	349	678	1095	1664	2330	3117	3869	4488	4987	5308	5472	5472

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