2000 Growing Degree Day Summary

Alabama
2001 Growing Degree Day Summary Through July 5

Dale Monks, Extension Crop Physiologist
Charles Burmester, Extension Agronomist
Dennis Delaney, Extension Assoc.
Erin Owens, Web Page Maintenance

Agricultural Weather Information Service, Inc.
OBSERVED Degree Day Information For ALABAMA
Produced at 1044 AM CDT on Thu Jul 5 2001

Accumulated Degree Days (Base 60: No Max/Min Temp Caps)
Totals From: 04/01 To 07/05

                                                                         NUM   01 01%
STATION            92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   00   01| AVG YRS DFA AVG
-------            --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --| --- -- --- ---
Belle_Mina        845 966 1003 959 1065 705 1189 1099 1073 1007| 1005 17    2 100
Milstead          975 1071 1192 1152 1084 896 1341 1153 1257 1154| 1140 15   14 101
Montgomery_AP    1067 1187 1377 1359 1217 976 1436 1278 1306 1212| 1258 17 -46   96
Headland         1189 1173 1195 1328 1361 1012 1753 1502 1591 1404| 1349 17   55 104
Fairhope         1248 1214 1411 1361 1345 1206 1569 1503 1539 1551| 1379 17 172 112

Where: AVG = AVeraGe Accumulations Over Given NUMber of YeaRS
       DFA = Current Year Departure From Average
             (Current Year Total - Average Total)
      %AVG = Current Year % of Average)
         M = Missing (If > 15% Data Missing for Individual Years)
             (If < 75% of Years available for Averages)

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Weather Summary For Alabama

For the Period:     Sunday     April 1, 2001
            To:   Thursday      July 5, 2001
                                                    GDD GDD
                      AIR                          BASE BASE
                  TEMPERATURE      PRECIPITATION     60   60 NORM
STATION          HI LO AVG DFN TOTAL    DFN DAYS TOT DFN DD60
-------          -- -- -- -- -----   ----   -- --- --- ----
Belle_Mina       91 34 69 +2 19.73 +5.52   36 1031 +153 878
Milstead         92 33 71 +2 17.32 +3.51   34 1175 +216 959
Montgomery_AP    93 35 72 +0   9.46 -3.67   35 1233 +38 1195
Headland         92 38 73 +1 15.35 +0.69   26 1428 +171 1257
Fairhope         93 40 75 +2 15.84 -1.37   24 1575 +278 1297

NORM = Normal long term averages (30 years using 1961-90 data).
DFN = Departure From The 30 Year Normal.
Precipitation Days = Days with precip of 0.01 inch or more.

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