Solomons, MD: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00188405, 1951 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 12 ft, 38.320, -76.453. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 27	Nov 22
Earliest	Mar 6 (2012)	Oct 20 (1972)
Latest	Apr 13 (1957)	Dec 14 (2012)
Trend	0.9 days earlier per decade	1.7 days later per decade
Years with data	35	31

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 16 and the median first fall date is Dec 2.

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
2023	Mar 20	no data	Feb 4	no data
2022	Mar 30	Nov 21	Mar 30	Dec 21
2013	Mar 25	no data	Mar 23	no data
2012	Mar 6	Dec 14	Feb 14	none
2011	Mar 27	Dec 11	Feb 23	none
2010	Mar 8	Nov 29	Feb 21	Dec 7
2009	Mar 25	Dec 7	Mar 5	Dec 11
2008	no data	Nov 19	no data	Nov 22
1982	Apr 12	no data	Apr 7	no data
1979	Mar 19	Nov 30	Mar 16	Nov 30
1978	Mar 18	Dec 10	Mar 9	Dec 11
1977	Apr 9	no data	Feb 22	no data
1976	Apr 12	Nov 9	Mar 18	Nov 9
1975	Apr 5	Oct 31	Mar 9	Dec 3
1974	Mar 26	Oct 21	Mar 13	Nov 27
1972	Apr 10	Oct 20	Mar 27	Nov 23
1971	Mar 27	Nov 5	Mar 25	Dec 2
1970	Mar 30	Nov 23	Mar 16	Nov 24
1969	Mar 31	Nov 15	Mar 16	Nov 21
1968	no data	Nov 21	no data	Dec 9
1967	Mar 25	no data	Mar 19	no data
1966	Mar 29	no data	Mar 29	no data
1965	Apr 3	Oct 29	Mar 21	Dec 20
1964	Apr 6	Nov 22	Mar 31	Nov 22
1963	Mar 8	Dec 4	Mar 3	Dec 15
1962	Mar 19	Dec 10	Mar 4	Dec 10
1961	Mar 18	Dec 9	Mar 17	Dec 9
1960	Mar 27	Dec 1	Mar 25	Dec 9
1959	Mar 29	Nov 18	Feb 25	Nov 18
1958	Mar 24	Nov 29	Feb 23	Nov 30
1957	Apr 13	Nov 11	Mar 4	Dec 5
1956	Apr 1	Nov 11	Mar 25	Nov 24
1955	Mar 29	Nov 26	Mar 28	Nov 29
1954	Apr 4	Dec 3	Apr 4	Dec 6
1953	Mar 10	Nov 7	Mar 9	Dec 17
1952	Mar 18	Nov 29	Mar 9	Nov 29
1951	Mar 27	Nov 18	Mar 10	Nov 19

"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.