Frost history / Parker, AZ
Parker, AZ: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00026250, 1953 to 1999, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 420 ft, 34.155, -114.291. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 6 | Dec 11 |
| Earliest | Jan 4 (1983) | Oct 30 (1971) |
| Latest | Mar 21 (1955) | Dec 28 (1988) |
| Trend | 5.7 days earlier per decade | 3.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 43, 7 with no freeze | 46, 5 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 22 and the median first fall date is Dec 14.
The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.
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Last spring frost (32°F)
First fall frost (32°F)
Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.
Year by year
| Year | Last spring 32°F | First fall 32°F | Last spring 28°F | First fall 28°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | no data | Dec 15 | no data | none |
| 1998 | none | Dec 8 | none | Dec 23 |
| 1997 | none | Dec 27 | none | none |
| 1996 | Jan 23 | no data | none | no data |
| 1995 | none | none | none | none |
| 1994 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1993 | Jan 4 | Dec 23 | none | none |
| 1992 | none | Dec 17 | none | none |
| 1991 | Jan 30 | Dec 2 | none | none |
| 1990 | Feb 17 | Dec 18 | Feb 17 | Dec 23 |
| 1989 | Feb 7 | Dec 12 | none | none |
| 1988 | Jan 21 | Dec 28 | none | Dec 30 |
| 1987 | no data | Dec 15 | no data | Dec 15 |
| 1986 | Feb 10 | Dec 11 | none | none |
| 1985 | Feb 7 | Nov 20 | Feb 1 | Dec 13 |
| 1984 | Feb 24 | Nov 27 | none | none |
| 1983 | Jan 4 | Dec 6 | Jan 1 | none |
| 1982 | Jan 23 | Dec 27 | none | none |
| 1981 | Feb 5 | Dec 24 | none | none |
| 1980 | none | none | none | none |
| 1979 | Jan 30 | Dec 13 | Jan 2 | none |
| 1978 | none | Dec 7 | none | Dec 7 |
| 1977 | Feb 26 | none | Jan 10 | none |
| 1976 | Jan 13 | Nov 29 | Jan 3 | Nov 29 |
| 1975 | Feb 19 | Nov 30 | Jan 29 | none |
| 1974 | Feb 9 | Dec 24 | Jan 3 | none |
| 1973 | Jan 25 | Dec 21 | Jan 8 | none |
| 1972 | Feb 13 | Dec 10 | Feb 3 | Dec 12 |
| 1971 | Mar 3 | Oct 30 | Mar 3 | Dec 9 |
| 1970 | Feb 3 | Dec 20 | Jan 30 | Dec 20 |
| 1969 | Mar 8 | Dec 8 | none | Dec 30 |
| 1968 | Jan 7 | Dec 5 | none | Dec 22 |
| 1967 | Jan 20 | Dec 21 | Jan 9 | none |
| 1966 | Mar 4 | Dec 25 | Jan 22 | Dec 31 |
| 1965 | Mar 5 | Dec 20 | Feb 24 | none |
| 1964 | Mar 9 | Dec 8 | Feb 15 | Dec 14 |
| 1963 | Jan 24 | Dec 12 | Jan 22 | Dec 13 |
| 1962 | Mar 15 | Dec 28 | Feb 28 | none |
| 1961 | Jan 13 | Nov 19 | none | Dec 12 |
| 1960 | Feb 25 | Dec 7 | Jan 3 | Dec 9 |
| 1959 | Jan 21 | none | Jan 5 | none |
| 1958 | none | Nov 17 | none | none |
| 1957 | Feb 1 | Nov 30 | none | none |
| 1956 | Mar 13 | Nov 4 | Mar 13 | Nov 21 |
| 1955 | Mar 21 | Dec 5 | Feb 22 | none |
| 1954 | Jan 14 | Dec 18 | Jan 11 | Dec 26 |
| 1953 | no data | Nov 21 | no data | Dec 7 |
"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.