Frost history / Crescent City 3 Nnw, CA
Crescent City 3 Nnw, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00042147, 1951 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 43 ft, 41.796, -124.215. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 17 | Nov 28 |
| Earliest | Jan 15 (1987) | Oct 27 (2009) |
| Latest | Jun 29 (1998) | Dec 27 (1966) |
| Trend | 2.9 days later per decade | 2.3 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 55, 5 with no freeze | 55, 9 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 14 and the median first fall date is Dec 13.
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.
Chart
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Mar 23 | no data | Feb 26 | no data |
| 2012 | Apr 6 | Dec 13 | Feb 26 | Dec 31 |
| 2011 | Apr 12 | Nov 4 | Feb 27 | Dec 13 |
| 2010 | May 5 | Nov 24 | none | none |
| 2009 | Apr 26 | Oct 27 | Feb 9 | Nov 14 |
| 2008 | Apr 2 | Dec 10 | Mar 31 | Dec 16 |
| 2007 | Apr 2 | Nov 20 | Jan 16 | Nov 30 |
| 2006 | Mar 13 | Oct 30 | Mar 12 | Dec 19 |
| 2005 | Apr 14 | Dec 4 | none | Dec 15 |
| 2004 | Feb 11 | Nov 28 | none | none |
| 2003 | Feb 11 | Nov 1 | none | Nov 22 |
| 2002 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 | Mar 18 | Nov 1 |
| 2001 | Apr 14 | Nov 7 | Jan 16 | none |
| 2000 | Mar 28 | Nov 10 | none | none |
| 1999 | Apr 9 | Dec 3 | Mar 5 | none |
| 1998 | Jun 29 | Nov 28 | none | Dec 21 |
| 1997 | Apr 1 | Dec 9 | Mar 4 | none |
| 1996 | Feb 26 | Dec 14 | Feb 26 | none |
| 1995 | none | none | none | none |
| 1994 | Mar 19 | Nov 18 | none | none |
| 1993 | Feb 15 | Nov 23 | none | none |
| 1992 | none | none | none | none |
| 1991 | Mar 15 | none | none | none |
| 1990 | Feb 20 | Dec 19 | Feb 14 | Dec 20 |
| 1989 | Mar 3 | Dec 19 | Feb 14 | none |
| 1988 | Mar 15 | Dec 15 | none | Dec 26 |
| 1987 | Jan 15 | Dec 13 | none | none |
| 1986 | none | none | none | none |
| 1985 | Mar 29 | Nov 11 | none | none |
| 1984 | Jan 16 | Dec 13 | none | none |
| 1983 | Jan 20 | Dec 20 | none | Dec 22 |
| 1982 | Mar 19 | none | none | none |
| 1981 | none | none | none | none |
| 1980 | Jan 30 | Dec 8 | Jan 30 | none |
| 1979 | Mar 31 | none | Feb 2 | none |
| 1978 | Feb 11 | Nov 11 | none | Nov 13 |
| 1977 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1976 | Apr 1 | Nov 30 | none | none |
| 1975 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | none |
| 1972 | Mar 27 | no data | Feb 1 | no data |
| 1971 | Apr 24 | Nov 16 | Feb 3 | none |
| 1970 | no data | Dec 26 | no data | none |
| 1966 | Mar 3 | Dec 27 | none | none |
| 1965 | Mar 19 | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 1964 | May 6 | Nov 14 | none | Nov 14 |
| 1963 | Mar 17 | no data | Jan 26 | no data |
| 1962 | Feb 27 | Dec 26 | Feb 27 | none |
| 1961 | Mar 3 | Nov 20 | none | none |
| 1960 | Mar 14 | Dec 5 | Jan 2 | none |
| 1959 | Mar 14 | Nov 15 | Jan 3 | none |
| 1958 | none | Nov 16 | none | Nov 16 |
| 1957 | Feb 4 | Nov 30 | none | none |
| 1956 | Mar 11 | Nov 28 | Feb 16 | none |
| 1955 | Apr 15 | Nov 14 | none | none |
| 1954 | Mar 17 | Dec 26 | none | none |
| 1953 | Apr 10 | none | none | none |
| 1952 | Mar 2 | Nov 25 | none | none |
| 1951 | Mar 11 | Dec 6 | none | 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.