2000 Growing Degree Day Summary

Alabama
2001 Growing Degree Day Summary Through September 6

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

Agricultural Weather Information Service, Inc.
OBSERVED Degree Day Information For ALABAMA
Produced at 1028 AM CDT on Thu Sep 6 2001

Accumulated Degree Days (Base 60: No Max/Min Temp Caps)
Totals From: 04/01 To 09/06

                                                                         NUM   01 01%
STATION            92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   00   01| AVG YRS DFA AVG
-------            --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --| --- -- --- ---
Belle_Mina       1833 2240 2034 2279 2153 1830 2416 2404 2367 2163| 2193 17 -30   99
Milstead         2152 2457 2315 2582 2214 2126 2707 2526 2661 2397| 2435 15 -38   98
Montgomery_AP    2315 2660 2648 2803 2455 2288 2850 2716 2781 2507| 2625 17 -118   96
Headland         2415 2520 2254 2691 2591 2219 3186 3028 3121 2731| 2660 17   71 103
Fairhope         2548 2601 2636 2779 2679 2562 3041 2935 3184 2948| 2748 17 200 107

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 September 6, 2001
                                                    GDD GDD
                      AIR                          BASE BASE
                  TEMPERATURE      PRECIPITATION     60   60 NORM
STATION          HI LO AVG DFN TOTAL    DFN DAYS TOT DFN DD60
-------          -- -- -- -- -----   ----   -- --- --- ----
Belle_Mina       96 34 73 +2 29.78 +7.48   58 2203 +219 1984
Milstead         94 33 74 +2 23.92 +1.19   55 2435 +315 2120
Montgomery_AP    96 35 76 +0 17.98 -4.03   59 2543 +39 2504
Headland         96 38 76 +1 24.25 -0.74   60 2773 +251 2522
Fairhope         95 40 77 +2 40.18 +8.92   56 2987 +390 2597

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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