Frost history / Weeki Wachee, FL
Weeki Wachee, FL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00089430, 1970 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 20 ft, 28.517, -82.576. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 27 | Dec 4 |
| Earliest | Jan 1 (1998) | Nov 9 (1976) |
| Latest | Mar 30 (2013) | Dec 25 (1983) |
| Trend | 2.5 days earlier per decade | 4.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 31, 1 with no freeze | 35, 14 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 6 and the median first fall date is Dec 11.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | no data | Dec 13 | no data | none |
| 2013 | Mar 30 | none | Feb 18 | none |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Dec 22 | Jan 5 | none |
| 2011 | Feb 12 | none | Jan 22 | none |
| 2010 | Mar 6 | Dec 2 | Feb 25 | Dec 13 |
| 2009 | Mar 2 | none | Feb 6 | none |
| 2008 | Feb 27 | no data | Jan 2 | no data |
| 2007 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2006 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2005 | no data | Dec 21 | no data | none |
| 2004 | Jan 30 | no data | none | no data |
| 2003 | Jan 30 | no data | Jan 25 | no data |
| 2002 | Mar 6 | no data | Feb 28 | no data |
| 2001 | Jan 27 | no data | Jan 27 | no data |
| 2000 | no data | Nov 22 | no data | Nov 22 |
| 1998 | Jan 1 | none | none | none |
| 1996 | Mar 12 | none | Feb 6 | none |
| 1995 | Feb 9 | Dec 11 | Feb 9 | Dec 11 |
| 1994 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1993 | Mar 14 | Dec 11 | Mar 14 | none |
| 1992 | Jan 18 | no data | none | no data |
| 1991 | none | none | none | none |
| 1990 | Jan 27 | none | none | none |
| 1989 | Feb 26 | Dec 4 | Feb 24 | Dec 4 |
| 1988 | Mar 17 | Nov 29 | Feb 14 | Dec 14 |
| 1986 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1985 | Mar 19 | Dec 15 | Jan 28 | Dec 22 |
| 1984 | Mar 2 | Dec 8 | Jan 1 | Dec 9 |
| 1983 | Feb 9 | Dec 25 | Jan 16 | Dec 25 |
| 1982 | Jan 27 | Dec 19 | Jan 16 | none |
| 1981 | Feb 13 | Nov 22 | Feb 5 | Dec 11 |
| 1980 | Mar 5 | none | Mar 4 | none |
| 1979 | Feb 12 | Nov 30 | Feb 11 | Dec 1 |
| 1978 | Mar 6 | none | Feb 23 | none |
| 1977 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Dec 23 |
| 1976 | Mar 18 | Nov 9 | Jan 29 | none |
| 1975 | Mar 5 | Nov 24 | Jan 15 | Dec 19 |
| 1974 | no data | Dec 4 | no data | none |
| 1972 | Feb 22 | Dec 17 | Feb 21 | none |
| 1971 | Mar 21 | none | Feb 15 | none |
| 1970 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Nov 25 |
"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.