2000 Growing Degree Day Summary

Alabama
2001 Growing Degree Day Summary Through November 29

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 1109 AM CST on Thu Nov 29 2001

Accumulated Degree Days (Base 60: No Max/Min Temp Caps)
Totals From: 04/01 To 11/29

                                                                         NUM   01 01%
STATION            92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   00   01| AVG YRS DFA AVG
-------            --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --   --| --- -- --- ---
Belle_Mina       2204 2622 2420 2680 2500 2274 3031 2879 2936 2526| 2634 17 -108   96
Milstead         2688 3059 2869 3195 2698 2701 3457 3099 3259 2922| 3022 15 -100   97
Montgomery_AP    2951 3379 3378 3454 3033 2929 3697 3354 3472 3091| 3319 17 -228   93
Headland         3021 3160 2890 3407 3151 2989 4204 3866 3922 3482| 3380 17 102 103
Fairhope         3297 3418 3495 3587 3471 3395 4039 3837 4045 3806| 3587 17 219 106

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 November 29, 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 27 68 +2 37.91 +4.99   76 2575 +214 2361
Milstead         94 28 71 +2 28.30 -3.83   67 2975 +339 2636
Montgomery_AP    96 25 72 -1 22.70 -8.95   72 3141   -5 3146
Headland         96 33 73 +1 29.21 -4.90   74 3540 +378 3162
Fairhope         95 35 74 +1 48.69 +5.80   77 3867 +537 3330

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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