Frost history / Belle Glade, FL
Belle Glade, FL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00080611, 1951 to 2003, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 20 ft, 26.693, -80.671. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jan 31 | Dec 20 |
| Earliest | Jan 5 (2001) | Nov 28 (1956) |
| Latest | Mar 4 (1980) | Dec 30 (1961) |
| Trend | 2.3 days later per decade | 2.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 50, 22 with no freeze | 52, 35 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 20 and the median first fall date is Dec 20.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2001 | Jan 5 | none | Jan 5 | none |
| 2000 | Jan 27 | none | none | none |
| 1999 | none | none | none | none |
| 1998 | none | none | none | none |
| 1997 | Jan 19 | none | Jan 19 | none |
| 1996 | Feb 18 | none | none | none |
| 1995 | Feb 9 | Dec 25 | none | none |
| 1994 | none | none | none | none |
| 1993 | none | none | none | none |
| 1992 | none | none | none | none |
| 1991 | none | none | none | none |
| 1990 | none | none | none | none |
| 1989 | Feb 26 | Dec 24 | none | Dec 24 |
| 1988 | none | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 1987 | Jan 28 | none | none | none |
| 1986 | Mar 3 | none | Jan 29 | none |
| 1985 | Feb 14 | Dec 26 | Jan 23 | none |
| 1984 | none | none | none | none |
| 1983 | none | Dec 25 | none | Dec 26 |
| 1982 | no data | Dec 21 | no data | none |
| 1981 | Feb 4 | Dec 20 | Jan 19 | none |
| 1980 | Mar 4 | none | none | none |
| 1979 | Feb 2 | none | none | none |
| 1978 | Feb 23 | none | none | none |
| 1977 | Jan 20 | Dec 28 | Jan 20 | none |
| 1976 | none | none | none | none |
| 1975 | none | none | none | none |
| 1974 | none | none | none | none |
| 1973 | none | Dec 12 | none | none |
| 1972 | none | none | none | none |
| 1971 | Feb 15 | none | none | none |
| 1970 | Jan 11 | none | none | none |
| 1969 | none | none | none | none |
| 1968 | Mar 2 | Dec 16 | none | Dec 16 |
| 1967 | none | none | none | none |
| 1966 | Feb 1 | none | Jan 31 | none |
| 1965 | Jan 18 | none | Jan 18 | none |
| 1964 | Feb 24 | none | none | none |
| 1963 | none | none | none | none |
| 1962 | Jan 13 | Dec 11 | none | Dec 11 |
| 1961 | Jan 22 | Dec 30 | none | Dec 30 |
| 1960 | Jan 24 | Dec 17 | Jan 24 | none |
| 1959 | Jan 18 | none | none | none |
| 1958 | Feb 21 | none | Feb 5 | none |
| 1957 | none | Dec 12 | none | Dec 13 |
| 1956 | Jan 15 | Nov 28 | Jan 15 | none |
| 1955 | Jan 30 | none | none | none |
| 1954 | none | Dec 21 | none | none |
| 1953 | none | none | none | none |
| 1952 | none | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 1951 | Jan 9 | none | none | none |
"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.