Frost history / Gainesville 11 Wnw, FL
Gainesville 11 Wnw, FL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00083322, 1989 to 2000, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 95 ft, 29.681, -82.494. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 14 | Nov 15 |
| Earliest | Feb 9 (1992) | Oct 21 (1989) |
| Latest | Apr 23 (1993) | Dec 25 (1994) |
| Trend | 17.4 days earlier per decade | 4.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 11 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 23 and the median first fall date is Dec 1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Feb 11 | Nov 15 | Feb 6 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Nov 4 | Feb 23 | Dec 2 |
| 1998 | Mar 14 | Dec 16 | Mar 14 | Dec 16 |
| 1997 | Feb 12 | Nov 17 | Jan 19 | Dec 6 |
| 1996 | Apr 11 | Nov 10 | Mar 22 | Dec 20 |
| 1995 | Feb 22 | Nov 15 | Feb 22 | Nov 23 |
| 1994 | Mar 18 | Dec 25 | Feb 4 | none |
| 1993 | Apr 23 | Nov 1 | Mar 15 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Feb 9 | Nov 30 | Feb 9 | none |
| 1991 | Mar 12 | Nov 11 | Mar 11 | Nov 25 |
| 1990 | Mar 21 | Dec 10 | Mar 21 | none |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 21 | no data | Dec 1 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.