Frost history / Kern River Ph 3, CA
Kern River Ph 3, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00044523, 1951 to 2006, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,703 ft, 35.783, -118.439. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 29 | Nov 13 |
| Earliest | Feb 17 (1978) | Oct 18 (1971) |
| Latest | May 22 (2002) | Nov 27 (1976) |
| Trend | 1.4 days earlier per decade | 1.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 50 | 48 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 22.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 26 |
| 2005 | Apr 11 | Nov 20 | Feb 8 | Nov 27 |
| 2004 | Mar 8 | Oct 29 | Mar 8 | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | May 22 | no data | Mar 20 | no data |
| 2001 | Apr 10 | no data | Feb 14 | no data |
| 2000 | Mar 7 | Nov 1 | Jan 28 | Nov 12 |
| 1999 | Apr 10 | Nov 18 | Apr 10 | Nov 22 |
| 1998 | Apr 17 | Oct 31 | Mar 30 | Nov 10 |
| 1997 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Dec 9 |
| 1995 | Mar 25 | no data | none | no data |
| 1994 | Mar 23 | Nov 3 | Feb 23 | Nov 4 |
| 1993 | Mar 2 | Nov 13 | Jan 5 | Nov 24 |
| 1992 | Mar 10 | Nov 21 | Feb 4 | Nov 21 |
| 1991 | Mar 28 | Nov 16 | Mar 28 | Dec 1 |
| 1990 | Mar 15 | Nov 2 | Mar 14 | Nov 3 |
| 1989 | Mar 4 | Nov 8 | Mar 4 | Dec 1 |
| 1988 | Mar 14 | Nov 15 | Mar 11 | Nov 20 |
| 1987 | Mar 25 | Nov 24 | Feb 24 | Nov 28 |
| 1986 | Mar 15 | Nov 26 | Feb 11 | Nov 30 |
| 1985 | Mar 30 | Nov 13 | Mar 4 | Nov 15 |
| 1984 | Apr 26 | Nov 26 | Feb 23 | Dec 14 |
| 1983 | Apr 14 | Nov 22 | Apr 13 | Nov 27 |
| 1982 | Apr 8 | Nov 5 | Apr 7 | Nov 13 |
| 1981 | Mar 15 | Nov 20 | Feb 4 | Nov 26 |
| 1980 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 | Feb 11 | Nov 14 |
| 1979 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 | Feb 16 | Nov 21 |
| 1978 | Feb 17 | no data | Feb 12 | no data |
| 1977 | Mar 31 | Nov 7 | Mar 26 | Nov 20 |
| 1976 | Apr 17 | Nov 27 | Mar 4 | Nov 27 |
| 1975 | May 5 | Oct 24 | Apr 7 | Nov 18 |
| 1974 | Apr 25 | Nov 3 | Feb 23 | Nov 23 |
| 1973 | Mar 30 | Nov 4 | Jan 24 | Nov 5 |
| 1972 | Mar 28 | Oct 30 | Feb 13 | Oct 31 |
| 1971 | Apr 22 | Oct 18 | Mar 6 | Oct 29 |
| 1970 | Apr 23 | Nov 13 | Feb 2 | Dec 15 |
| 1969 | Mar 15 | Oct 19 | Mar 14 | Dec 4 |
| 1968 | Apr 18 | Nov 14 | Feb 1 | Nov 14 |
| 1966 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 3 | no data |
| 1965 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Nov 27 |
| 1964 | Apr 25 | Nov 14 | Mar 9 | Nov 15 |
| 1963 | Apr 2 | Nov 16 | Mar 4 | Nov 22 |
| 1962 | Mar 25 | Nov 17 | Mar 12 | Nov 18 |
| 1961 | Apr 24 | Oct 23 | Mar 5 | Nov 17 |
| 1960 | Mar 11 | Nov 17 | Jan 19 | Nov 30 |
| 1959 | Mar 25 | Nov 5 | Feb 24 | Nov 30 |
| 1958 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 | Jan 23 | Nov 16 |
| 1957 | Mar 23 | Nov 6 | Mar 23 | Nov 17 |
| 1956 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 | Mar 13 | Nov 1 |
| 1955 | Apr 27 | Nov 1 | Apr 5 | Nov 13 |
| 1954 | Mar 31 | Oct 25 | Mar 13 | Nov 30 |
| 1953 | Apr 11 | Oct 23 | Apr 11 | Nov 19 |
| 1952 | Mar 23 | Nov 16 | Mar 8 | Nov 25 |
| 1951 | Apr 1 | Nov 24 | Mar 11 | Dec 8 |
"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.