FRIANT GOVERNMENT CP, CALIFORNIA

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(043261) FRIANT GOVERNMENT CAMP
From Year=1912 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	201	297	425	560	831	1024	1259	1210	1029	786	426	212	8259
40 S	201	498	923	1483	2313	3338	4596	5807	6836	7621	8047	8259	8259
45 M	92	167	275	410	676	874	1104	1055	879	631	280	98	6540
45 S	92	259	534	944	1619	2494	3597	4653	5532	6162	6442	6540	6540
50 M	29	70	145	268	521	724	949	900	729	476	155	32	4998
50 S	29	99	244	512	1033	1757	2706	3606	4335	4811	4966	4998	4998
55 M	5	17	57	149	369	574	794	745	579	327	69	6	3691
55 S	5	23	79	228	597	1172	1965	2711	3290	3617	3685	3691	3691
60 M	0	2	14	67	231	425	639	590	429	193	21	1	2612
60 S	0	2	16	82	314	739	1378	1968	2398	2591	2611	2612	2612

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	101	161	255	358	518	611	728	704	620	493	257	113	4919
50 S	101	262	517	875	1393	2004	2732	3436	4056	4549	4806	4919	4919

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