Alabama
2000 Growing Degree Day Summary
Date: April 1 through October 26, 2000

Agricultural Weather Information Service, Inc.
OBSERVED Degree Day Information For ALABAMA        
Produced at 1240 PM CDT on Thu Oct 26 2000

Accumulated Degree Days (Base  60: No Max/Min Temp Caps)
Totals From: 04/01 To 10/26

                                                                         NUM   00  00%
STATION            91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99    0|  AVG YRS  DFA  AVG
-------            --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --|  ---  --  ---  ---
Belle_Mina       2770 2161 2592 2371 2672 2443 2272 2994 2857 2803| 2593  16  210  108
Milstead         3067 2586 3000 2794 3155 2590 2690 3368 3074 3110| 2951  14  159  105
Montgomery_AP    3361 2833 3301 3247 3404 2902 2907 3578 3315 3315| 3222  16   93  103
Headland         3334 2894 3088 2746 3343 3024 2948 4053 3975 3625| 3238  16  387  112
Fairhope         3501 3139 3305 3323 3475 3284 3328 3881 3805 3704| 3395  16  309  109
 
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:   Saturday     April  1, 2000 
            To:   Thursday       Oct 26, 2000 
                                                    GDD  GDD     
                      AIR                          BASE BASE     
                  TEMPERATURE      PRECIPITATION     60   60 NORM
STATION          HI  LO AVG DFN  TOTAL    DFN DAYS  TOT  DFN DD60
-------          --  --  --  --  -----   ----   --  ---  --- ----
Belle_Mina      103  26  72  +2  18.11  -9.63   55 2845 +502 2343
Milstead        103  30  74  +2  15.82 -11.80   51 3159 +572 2587
Montgomery_AP   104  31  75  +2  16.10 -11.11   45 3362 +289 3073
Headland        105  35  77  +3  11.22 -18.81   44 3673 +600 3073
Fairhope        102  37  77  +2  22.44 -15.82   57 3752 +536 3216
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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