Frost history / Mojave, CA
Mojave, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00045756, 1965 to 2004, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,735 ft, 35.049, -118.162. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 19 | Nov 14 |
| Earliest | Feb 5 (1992) | Oct 17 (1971) |
| Latest | Apr 25 (1971) | Dec 8 (2001) |
| Trend | 14.1 days earlier per decade | 0.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 28 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 26.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Feb 14 | no data | Feb 14 | no data |
| 2003 | Feb 10 | no data | Feb 10 | no data |
| 2002 | Mar 19 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 2001 | Feb 24 | Dec 8 | Feb 14 | Dec 10 |
| 2000 | Mar 8 | Nov 12 | Jan 30 | Nov 12 |
| 1998 | Apr 1 | no data | Jan 8 | no data |
| 1997 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Dec 10 |
| 1995 | Mar 26 | no data | Jan 18 | no data |
| 1994 | Feb 24 | Nov 4 | Feb 15 | Nov 4 |
| 1993 | Feb 28 | Nov 17 | Jan 24 | Nov 25 |
| 1992 | Feb 5 | Nov 11 | Jan 23 | Nov 12 |
| 1991 | Mar 27 | Nov 1 | Mar 16 | Dec 2 |
| 1990 | Feb 20 | Nov 27 | Feb 20 | Nov 27 |
| 1989 | Mar 26 | Oct 30 | Mar 26 | Nov 28 |
| 1988 | Mar 13 | Nov 19 | Feb 4 | Nov 20 |
| 1987 | Mar 20 | Nov 26 | Feb 26 | Nov 28 |
| 1986 | Feb 10 | Nov 9 | Feb 10 | Nov 30 |
| 1985 | Mar 30 | Nov 12 | Mar 4 | Nov 13 |
| 1984 | Mar 6 | Nov 23 | Feb 26 | Nov 26 |
| 1983 | Feb 6 | Nov 22 | Feb 5 | Nov 22 |
| 1982 | Apr 15 | Nov 5 | Apr 6 | Dec 14 |
| 1977 | Apr 3 | Nov 6 | Mar 29 | Nov 6 |
| 1976 | Apr 2 | no data | Mar 13 | no data |
| 1975 | Apr 17 | Nov 11 | Feb 23 | Nov 19 |
| 1974 | Mar 10 | Nov 23 | Mar 5 | Nov 23 |
| 1973 | Apr 22 | Nov 15 | Apr 21 | Nov 27 |
| 1972 | Apr 20 | Oct 31 | Apr 20 | Oct 31 |
| 1971 | Apr 25 | Oct 17 | Mar 7 | Oct 29 |
| 1970 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Dec 11 |
| 1969 | Apr 7 | Nov 18 | Mar 9 | Nov 21 |
| 1968 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 1967 | no data | Nov 28 | no data | Dec 3 |
| 1966 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Dec 18 |
| 1965 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Dec 17 |
"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.