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Orchard Mesa, Colorado Cooperative CoAgMET Weather Station - Colorado State University (CSU) (ORM01) Daily Calculated Growing Degree Days (50 Degree Base Temperature) Time Series Data

Orchard Mesa, Colorado Cooperative CoAgMET Weather Station - Colorado State University (CSU) (ORM01) calculated daily Growing Degree Days. Growing Degree Days (GDDs) are calculated in degrees Fahrenheit using a base temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit. GDDs are measure of heat accumulation used by horticulturists, gardeners, and farmers to predict plant and animal development rates such as the date that a flower will bloom, an insect will emerge from dormancy, or a crop will reach maturity. GDD(50 Deg) is calculated as (Max Air Temp + Min Air Temp) / 2 - Base Temperature, where the Base Temperature (Tbase) is 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Any temperature below Tbase is set to Tbase before calculating the average.
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Catalog Record Title Orchard Mesa, Colorado Cooperative CoAgMET Weather Station - Colorado State University (CSU) (ORM01) Water Operations Monitoring Data from Columbia-Pacific Northwest Water Operations Monitoring
Generation Effort Columbia-Pacific Northwest Water Operations Monitoring
Location Name Orchard Mesa, Colorado Cooperative CoAgMET Weather Station - Colorado State University (CSU) (ORM01)
Type Time series
Modeled/Observed Observed
Start Date Mon Aug 17 2015 12:00:00 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
End Date Mon Sep 23 2019 12:00:00 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
Parameter Name Growing Degree Days (50 Degree Base Temperature)
Parameter Group Weather Data
Parameter Transformation calculation
Time Step daily
Parameter Unit GDD
Item Vertical Datum
Update Frequency daily
Last Update Friday, March 13th, 2026

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Data are provisional and subject to revision unless otherwise noted. Data users are cautioned to consider carefully the provisional nature of the information before using it.

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