Frost history / Atlanta 5 Wnw, MI
Atlanta 5 Wnw, MI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00200343, 1951 to 2004, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,180 ft, 45.028, -84.233. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 25 | Sep 23 |
| Earliest | Apr 18 (2001) | Aug 12 (1979) |
| Latest | Jul 6 (1983) | Oct 16 (2001) |
| Trend | 3.7 days earlier per decade | 2.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 38 | 42 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 5.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | May 28 | no data | Apr 28 | no data |
| 2003 | May 22 | Oct 1 | May 4 | Oct 1 |
| 2002 | May 25 | Oct 14 | May 25 | Oct 14 |
| 2001 | Apr 18 | Oct 16 | Apr 1 | Oct 17 |
| 2000 | May 20 | Sep 25 | May 19 | Sep 28 |
| 1999 | May 13 | Oct 4 | Mar 26 | Oct 4 |
| 1998 | Apr 26 | Sep 30 | Apr 26 | Nov 6 |
| 1997 | May 17 | Sep 30 | Apr 19 | Sep 30 |
| 1996 | May 13 | Oct 9 | May 12 | Oct 10 |
| 1995 | Apr 30 | no data | Apr 20 | no data |
| 1994 | May 6 | Oct 1 | May 1 | Nov 1 |
| 1993 | May 19 | Sep 19 | Apr 26 | Oct 9 |
| 1992 | Jun 20 | Sep 11 | May 26 | Sep 25 |
| 1991 | May 19 | Sep 27 | May 8 | Oct 13 |
| 1990 | no data | Sep 17 | no data | Oct 20 |
| 1989 | no data | Sep 23 | no data | Sep 24 |
| 1986 | May 4 | no data | May 3 | no data |
| 1985 | May 29 | Oct 6 | Apr 27 | Oct 11 |
| 1984 | no data | Sep 27 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 1983 | Jul 6 | no data | Jun 8 | no data |
| 1982 | no data | Aug 28 | no data | Aug 29 |
| 1981 | May 28 | Aug 20 | May 20 | Sep 22 |
| 1980 | Jun 17 | Sep 24 | Jun 10 | Sep 27 |
| 1979 | no data | Aug 12 | no data | Sep 20 |
| 1973 | no data | Sep 17 | no data | Oct 19 |
| 1972 | Jun 17 | Sep 22 | Jun 11 | Oct 10 |
| 1971 | May 29 | Sep 24 | May 22 | Nov 1 |
| 1970 | Jun 19 | Sep 29 | May 6 | Sep 29 |
| 1969 | no data | Sep 19 | no data | Oct 22 |
| 1968 | May 25 | no data | May 22 | no data |
| 1967 | May 23 | Sep 11 | May 23 | Oct 20 |
| 1966 | no data | Sep 25 | no data | Sep 26 |
| 1965 | Jul 6 | Sep 11 | Jun 3 | Oct 5 |
| 1964 | Jun 25 | Sep 12 | Jun 4 | Sep 12 |
| 1963 | Jun 22 | Sep 14 | May 24 | Sep 14 |
| 1962 | Jun 3 | Sep 20 | Jun 3 | Oct 24 |
| 1961 | Jun 3 | Sep 29 | May 27 | Sep 29 |
| 1960 | May 1 | Sep 16 | Apr 28 | Oct 24 |
| 1959 | May 17 | Sep 17 | May 15 | Sep 17 |
| 1958 | Jun 14 | Sep 11 | May 23 | Oct 6 |
| 1957 | May 17 | Sep 26 | May 16 | Sep 27 |
| 1956 | Jun 2 | Sep 20 | May 24 | Sep 20 |
| 1955 | May 17 | Sep 26 | May 17 | Oct 2 |
| 1954 | May 26 | Oct 7 | May 26 | Oct 7 |
| 1953 | May 15 | Sep 14 | May 15 | Oct 7 |
| 1952 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 3 |
| 1951 | Jun 5 | Sep 9 | May 13 | Sep 26 |
"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.