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Frost history / Greenfield #3, MA

Greenfield #3, MA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00193229, 2006 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 130 ft, 42.572, -72.597. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 2Oct 13
EarliestApr 20 (2007)Sep 18 (2008)
LatestMay 19 (2009)Oct 31 (2023)
Trend1.8 days earlier per decade3.8 days later per decade
Years with data1919

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 18 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202007: Apr 202008: May 22009: May 192010: May 132011: May 62012: Apr 302013: May 152014: May 72015: Apr 262016: Apr 282017: May 42018: Apr 232019: Apr 292020: May 142021: Apr 272022: May 92023: May 182024: Apr 282025: Apr 22

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202006: Oct 132007: Oct 132008: Sep 182009: Oct 122010: Oct 102012: Oct 132013: Oct 232014: Oct 202015: Oct 192016: Oct 112017: Oct 172018: Oct 192019: Oct 52020: Sep 212021: Oct 252022: Oct 102023: Oct 312024: Oct 162025: Oct 10

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 22Oct 10Apr 18Oct 27
2024Apr 28Oct 16Apr 26Nov 4
2023May 18Oct 31Apr 10Nov 2
2022May 9Oct 10Apr 19Oct 31
2021Apr 27Oct 25Apr 5Nov 4
2020May 14Sep 21Apr 23Oct 31
2019Apr 29Oct 5Apr 11Nov 3
2018Apr 23Oct 19Apr 23Oct 22
2017May 4Oct 17Apr 10Nov 9
2016Apr 28Oct 11Apr 17Oct 27
2015Apr 26Oct 19Apr 26Oct 19
2014May 7Oct 20Apr 20Nov 8
2013May 15Oct 23Apr 15Oct 26
2012Apr 30Oct 13Apr 8Oct 13
2011May 6no dataApr 22no data
2010May 13Oct 10May 11Nov 1
2009May 19Oct 12Apr 16Oct 12
2008May 2Sep 18May 1Oct 18
2007Apr 20Oct 13Apr 12Oct 29
2006no dataOct 13no dataOct 27

"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.