Frost history / Sines Deep Creek, MD
Sines Deep Creek, MD: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00188315, 1951 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,040 ft, 39.523, -79.413. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 14 | Sep 25 |
| Earliest | Apr 22 (1953) | Sep 10 (1956) |
| Latest | May 31 (1961) | Oct 21 (1960) |
| Trend | 1.3 days later per decade | 0.5 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 29 and the median first fall date is Oct 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | May 27 | Sep 24 | May 16 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | May 12 | Sep 25 | Apr 24 | Oct 12 |
| 1962 | May 10 | Sep 22 | Apr 21 | Sep 22 |
| 1961 | May 31 | Sep 29 | May 5 | Oct 4 |
| 1960 | May 3 | Oct 21 | May 2 | Oct 21 |
| 1959 | May 17 | Sep 18 | Apr 24 | Oct 19 |
| 1958 | May 13 | no data | Apr 26 | no data |
| 1957 | May 7 | Sep 25 | May 6 | Sep 28 |
| 1956 | May 25 | Sep 10 | May 17 | Sep 21 |
| 1955 | May 18 | Oct 9 | Apr 10 | Oct 25 |
| 1954 | May 23 | Oct 7 | May 5 | Oct 7 |
| 1953 | Apr 22 | Sep 14 | Apr 22 | Oct 8 |
| 1952 | May 3 | Oct 3 | May 3 | Oct 4 |
| 1951 | May 14 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
"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.