Frost history / Laguna Beach, CA
Laguna Beach, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00044647, 1951 to 2007, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 44 ft, 33.545, -117.781. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jan 31 | Dec 11 |
| Earliest | Jan 5 (1971) | Nov 20 (1964) |
| Latest | Apr 29 (1978) | Dec 29 (1969) |
| Trend | 2.5 days earlier per decade | 3.2 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 42, 15 with no freeze | 46, 26 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 20 and the median first fall date is Dec 19.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jan 19 | none | Jan 14 | none |
| 2006 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2005 | none | none | none | none |
| 2004 | none | Dec 1 | none | none |
| 2003 | none | Dec 21 | none | none |
| 2002 | Jan 31 | none | none | none |
| 2001 | Jan 23 | none | none | none |
| 2000 | none | none | none | none |
| 1999 | none | none | none | none |
| 1998 | none | none | none | none |
| 1997 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1996 | none | none | none | none |
| 1995 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1991 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1989 | Jan 13 | no data | none | no data |
| 1988 | Mar 12 | Nov 20 | none | none |
| 1987 | Jan 16 | Dec 14 | none | none |
| 1986 | none | none | none | none |
| 1985 | Feb 5 | Dec 10 | none | none |
| 1984 | none | Dec 3 | none | none |
| 1983 | none | none | none | none |
| 1982 | Jan 9 | none | none | none |
| 1981 | none | none | none | none |
| 1980 | no data | Nov 29 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 1979 | Apr 25 | no data | Mar 15 | no data |
| 1978 | Apr 29 | no data | none | no data |
| 1977 | none | none | none | none |
| 1976 | Mar 17 | Nov 28 | Jan 5 | none |
| 1975 | Feb 2 | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 1974 | none | none | none | none |
| 1973 | Jan 7 | none | none | none |
| 1972 | no data | Dec 12 | no data | none |
| 1971 | Jan 5 | Dec 8 | none | none |
| 1970 | Jan 6 | none | none | none |
| 1969 | Jan 31 | Dec 29 | none | none |
| 1968 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | Dec 21 |
| 1967 | Jan 7 | none | none | none |
| 1966 | Mar 3 | Dec 27 | none | none |
| 1965 | Feb 12 | none | none | none |
| 1964 | Jan 15 | Nov 20 | none | none |
| 1963 | Jan 20 | none | none | none |
| 1962 | none | Dec 29 | none | none |
| 1961 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1960 | no data | Dec 9 | no data | none |
| 1959 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1957 | Mar 31 | no data | Jan 27 | no data |
| 1956 | Feb 17 | Dec 14 | none | Dec 19 |
| 1955 | Feb 6 | none | none | none |
| 1954 | Jan 10 | Dec 29 | none | none |
| 1953 | Feb 22 | Dec 25 | none | none |
| 1952 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1951 | Mar 4 | no data | none | no data |
"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.