Frost history / Quincy 3 Ssw, FL
Quincy 3 Ssw, FL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00087429, 1968 to 2001, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 245 ft, 30.550, -84.584. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 8 | Nov 17 |
| Earliest | Jan 28 (1990) | Nov 1 (1993) |
| Latest | Apr 18 (2001) | Dec 24 (1994) |
| Trend | 1.8 days later per decade | 3.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 29 | 27, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 16 and the median first fall date is Dec 7.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Apr 18 | no data | Jan 26 | no data |
| 2000 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 1999 | Mar 1 | no data | Mar 1 | no data |
| 1996 | Mar 11 | no data | Mar 11 | no data |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 15 | Mar 9 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Mar 12 | Dec 24 | Feb 15 | Dec 24 |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Nov 1 | Mar 15 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Mar 21 | Nov 30 | Jan 21 | Dec 12 |
| 1991 | Feb 17 | Nov 5 | Feb 17 | none |
| 1990 | Jan 28 | Dec 6 | none | none |
| 1989 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 1988 | Feb 26 | no data | Feb 13 | no data |
| 1987 | Mar 25 | Dec 5 | Jan 28 | none |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | none | Mar 2 | none |
| 1985 | Feb 17 | Dec 15 | Feb 15 | Dec 15 |
| 1984 | Mar 10 | Nov 14 | Mar 1 | Dec 7 |
| 1983 | Mar 25 | Nov 17 | Feb 9 | none |
| 1982 | Mar 8 | Dec 13 | Jan 28 | none |
| 1981 | Feb 13 | Nov 22 | Feb 13 | Dec 19 |
| 1980 | Mar 5 | Nov 29 | Mar 4 | none |
| 1979 | Feb 20 | Nov 30 | Feb 11 | Nov 30 |
| 1978 | Mar 6 | Dec 10 | Mar 5 | Dec 10 |
| 1977 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Dec 7 |
| 1976 | Feb 24 | Nov 6 | Feb 8 | Nov 9 |
| 1975 | Mar 3 | Nov 15 | Feb 8 | Dec 11 |
| 1974 | Feb 28 | Nov 13 | Feb 28 | Dec 4 |
| 1973 | Feb 17 | Nov 11 | Feb 17 | Dec 11 |
| 1972 | Feb 21 | Nov 27 | Feb 5 | Dec 17 |
| 1971 | Mar 21 | no data | Mar 8 | no data |
| 1970 | Mar 14 | Nov 17 | Feb 27 | Nov 17 |
| 1969 | Mar 27 | Nov 15 | Feb 5 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Mar 25 | Nov 13 | Feb 28 | Nov 13 |
"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.