ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO

Period of Record General Climate Summary - Growing Degree Days

Station:(290199) ALAMOGORDO
From Year=1914 To Year=2006
Growing Degree Days for Selected Base Temperature (F)
Base	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
40 M	145	221	416	643	939	1168	1252	1188	980	691	328	140	8111
40 S	145	367	783	1426	2364	3533	4785	5973	6953	7643	7971	8111	8111
45 M	58	116	273	494	784	1018	1097	1033	830	537	199	56	6494
45 S	58	174	447	941	1725	2743	3841	4873	5703	6240	6439	6494	6494
50 M	15	44	152	349	629	868	942	878	680	385	97	15	5054
50 S	15	59	211	560	1189	2057	2999	3877	4557	4942	5039	5054	5054
55 M	2	10	65	215	475	718	787	723	530	242	31	2	3801
55 S	2	12	77	292	767	1486	2273	2996	3526	3768	3799	3801	3801
60 M	0	1	18	105	324	568	632	568	382	122	6	0	2725
60 S	0	1	19	124	448	1016	1649	2216	2598	2720	2725	2725	2725

Corn Growing Degree Days
50 M	122	168	287	423	602	731	806	777	636	445	235	125	5358
50 S	122	290	577	1000	1602	2333	3139	3916	4552	4998	5233	5358	5358

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 Jul 28, 2006
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