2000 Growing Degree Day Summary

Alabama
2001 Growing Degree Day Summary Through August 9

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 1107 AM CDT on Thu Aug 9 2001

Accumulated Degree Days (Base 60: No Max/Min Temp Caps)
Totals From: 04/01 To 08/09

                                                                         NUM   01 01%
STATION            92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   00   01| AVG YRS DFA AVG
-------            --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --| --- -- --- ---
Belle_Mina       1458 1690 1582 1703 1708 1370 1902 1847 1813 1691| 1692 17   -1 100
Milstead         1686 1870 1824 1974 1761 1595 2129 1917 2064 1868| 1880 15 -12   99
Montgomery_AP    1809 2020 2084 2173 1944 1709 2240 2082 2146 1961| 2034 17 -73   96
Headland         1938 1932 1785 2091 2095 1695 2564 2339 2466 2151| 2099 17   52 102
Fairhope         2029 1986 2083 2143 2120 1943 2412 2282 2434 2365| 2149 17 216 110

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    August 9, 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 72 +2 23.93 +4.76   48 1723 +202 1521
Milstead         94 33 73 +2 20.78 +1.74   44 1899 +279 1620
Montgomery_AP    96 35 75 +0 14.42 -4.24   47 1990 +51 1939
Headland         96 38 75 +1 19.76 -1.32   43 2187 +210 1977
Fairhope         95 40 76 +2 31.03 +5.69   40 2398 +366 2032

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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