1999 Growing Degree Day Summary

Date: April 1 through April 29, 1999


Agricultural Weather Information Service, Inc. OBSERVED Degree Day Information For ALABAMA Produced at 135 PM CDT on Thu Apr 29 1999

Accumulated Degree Days (Base 60: No Max/Min Temp Caps) Totals From: 04/01 To 04/29

                                                                         NUM   99  99%
STATION            90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99|  AVG YRS  DFA  AVG
-------            --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --|  ---  --  ---  ---
Belle_Mina         93  137  137   74  164  111   81   37   79  209|  116  15   93  180
Milstead          136  208  137   72  210  124  118   75  105  238|  142  13   96  168
Montgomery_AP     148  245  155   95  263  196  146   86  144  282|  176  15  106  160
Headland          162  287  185   90  216  194  151  111  199  363|  199  15  164  182
Fairhope          166  293  192  107  278  203  167  151  206  358|  210  15  148  170
 
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:   Thursday     April  1, 1999 
            To:   Thursday     April 29, 1999 
                                                    GDD  GDD     
                      AIR                          BASE BASE     
                  TEMPERATURE      PRECIPITATION     60   60 NORM
STATION          HI  LO AVG DFN  TOTAL    DFN DAYS  TOT  DFN DD60
-------          --  --  --  --  -----   ----   --  ---  --- ----
Belle_Mina       87  35  65  +6   3.77  -0.90   11  215 +132   83
Milstead         87  36  67  +5   1.42  -3.62    6  244 +139  105
Montgomery_AP    90  37  69  +5   2.22  -2.14    8  290 +135  155
Headland         92  41  71  +6   1.10  -2.86    4  369 +183  186
Fairhope         89  43  71  +5   0.11  -3.88    3  364 +163  201
 
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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