Randsburg, CA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00047253, 1951 to 2017, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,570 ft, 35.369, -117.653. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 25	Nov 22
Earliest	Jan 30 (1968)	Oct 17 (1971)
Latest	May 7 (1965)	Dec 27 (1969)
Trend	3.8 days earlier per decade	0.5 days later per decade
Years with data	64	62, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Dec 6.

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
2017	Mar 7	Dec 18	Mar 6	Dec 22
2016	Mar 8	Nov 17	Feb 4	Dec 17
2015	Mar 5	Nov 11	Jan 4	Nov 26
2014	Feb 5	no data	Feb 3	no data
2013	Mar 9	Dec 4	Feb 22	Dec 4
2012	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 11
2009	Apr 15	Oct 29	Mar 10	Dec 6
2008	Mar 17	Dec 14	Feb 6	Dec 18
2007	Mar 2	Nov 22	Mar 2	Dec 2
2006	Apr 6	Nov 26	Mar 11	Nov 29
2005	Mar 25	Nov 27	Jan 6	Nov 27
2004	Feb 28	Nov 22	Feb 13	Nov 29
2003	Mar 6	Nov 4	Feb 9	Nov 23
2002	Mar 19	Dec 19	Mar 15	Dec 19
2001	Apr 8	Nov 26	Feb 15	Dec 12
2000	Mar 7	Nov 12	Jan 6	Nov 12
1999	Apr 11	Nov 23	Apr 11	none
1998	Apr 16	Dec 5	Mar 30	Dec 7
1997	Mar 4	Dec 6	Mar 1	Dec 20
1996	Feb 28	Nov 30	Feb 28	none
1995	Mar 26	Dec 17	none	Dec 24
1994	Mar 25	Nov 4	Feb 2	Nov 19
1993	Mar 1	Nov 14	Jan 12	Dec 21
1992	Feb 15	Nov 21	none	Dec 19
1991	Mar 28	Oct 30	none	none
1990	Mar 14	Nov 27	Feb 19	Nov 27
1989	Mar 4	Dec 12	Mar 4	Dec 12
1988	Mar 12	Nov 20	Jan 20	Dec 22
1987	Mar 23	Dec 13	Feb 25	Dec 13
1986	Feb 11	Dec 10	Feb 9	none
1985	Mar 30	Nov 11	Mar 4	Nov 12
1984	Feb 18	Nov 22	none	Dec 15
1983	Mar 31	Nov 22	Mar 31	Nov 22
1982	Apr 7	no data	Apr 7	no data
1981	Feb 1	Nov 27	none	none
1980	Mar 27	Nov 27	none	Nov 27
1979	Mar 20	Nov 20	Feb 4	Dec 23
1978	Apr 5	Nov 12	Jan 24	Dec 6
1977	Mar 31	none	Mar 31	none
1976	Apr 17	no data	Apr 16	no data
1975	Apr 7	Nov 19	Mar 28	Nov 28
1974	Mar 8	Nov 27	Jan 11	Nov 27
1973	Apr 5	Nov 4	Mar 29	Nov 13
1972	Mar 28	Oct 30	Feb 3	Dec 5
1971	Apr 18	Oct 17	Mar 4	Oct 29
1970	Apr 28	Dec 3	Jan 6	Dec 18
1969	Apr 5	Dec 27	Feb 6	Dec 29
1968	Jan 30	Dec 2	Jan 29	Dec 19
1967	Apr 29	Nov 29	Mar 30	Dec 13
1966	Mar 4	Dec 26	Mar 4	Dec 27
1965	May 7	Nov 29	Feb 23	Dec 17
1964	Apr 24	Nov 14	Mar 15	Nov 14
1963	Apr 21	Nov 22	Mar 17	Dec 11
1962	Mar 23	Nov 18	Mar 1	Dec 25
1961	Mar 27	Nov 17	Mar 18	Dec 9
1960	Mar 2	Dec 4	Feb 24	Dec 7
1959	Feb 14	Dec 13	Feb 13	Dec 31
1958	Apr 7	Nov 15	none	Nov 16
1957	Apr 21	Nov 3	Feb 1	Nov 16
1956	Apr 13	Nov 20	Feb 27	Dec 8
1955	Apr 19	Nov 16	Feb 21	Nov 16
1954	Mar 26	Nov 30	Mar 26	Nov 30
1953	Apr 9	Nov 19	Mar 3	Dec 24
1952	Mar 22	Nov 15	Mar 22	Nov 27
1951	Mar 4	Nov 18	Mar 3	Dec 6

"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.