Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of onset date, end date, length of growing period in Dire Dawa administration.

Descriptive statistics	Rainfall features
	SOS (DOY)	EOS (DOY)	LGP (DAYS)
Min.	106	302	95
Max.	215	363	238
Mean	176	319	143
SD	34.7	17.3	41.0
Trend	0.18	−0.01	−0.13
Slope	0.52	0.39	−0.80
Q1 (25%)	166	305	110
Median (50%)	189	316	131
Q3 (75%)	201	326	169
CV%	19.8	5.6	27.1

Note: Min, minimum; Max, maximum; CV, coefficient of variation; SD, standard deviation.