Frost history / Essexville, MI
Essexville, MI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00202631, 1979 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 588 ft, 43.616, -83.845. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 24 | Oct 15 |
| Earliest | Apr 9 (1987) | Sep 27 (1989) |
| Latest | May 20 (2002) | Nov 9 (1985) |
| Trend | 0.8 days later per decade | 4.4 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 24 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | no data | Oct 1 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 1 | no data | Oct 2 |
| 2002 | May 20 | no data | Apr 6 | no data |
| 2001 | Apr 21 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 2000 | Apr 14 | Oct 29 | Apr 13 | Nov 18 |
| 1999 | Apr 24 | Oct 6 | Apr 9 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Apr 27 | Oct 21 | Apr 5 | Nov 3 |
| 1997 | Apr 19 | Oct 17 | Apr 13 | Oct 21 |
| 1996 | Apr 26 | Oct 10 | Apr 8 | Nov 9 |
| 1995 | Apr 14 | Nov 2 | Apr 5 | Nov 3 |
| 1994 | Apr 21 | Nov 1 | Apr 7 | Nov 23 |
| 1993 | Apr 26 | Oct 12 | Apr 26 | Nov 1 |
| 1991 | Apr 12 | Sep 28 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 |
| 1990 | Apr 19 | Oct 26 | Apr 18 | Oct 29 |
| 1989 | May 8 | Sep 27 | Apr 23 | Oct 9 |
| 1988 | Apr 25 | Oct 6 | Apr 19 | Oct 29 |
| 1987 | Apr 9 | Oct 13 | Apr 5 | Nov 6 |
| 1986 | May 3 | Oct 18 | Apr 23 | Nov 5 |
| 1985 | Apr 10 | Nov 9 | Apr 10 | Nov 21 |
| 1984 | May 2 | Nov 2 | May 1 | Nov 2 |
| 1983 | May 17 | Oct 27 | Apr 20 | Oct 30 |
| 1982 | Apr 22 | Oct 17 | Apr 21 | Oct 24 |
| 1981 | Apr 26 | Oct 19 | Apr 21 | Oct 24 |
| 1980 | Apr 24 | Oct 14 | Apr 17 | Oct 28 |
| 1979 | Apr 12 | Oct 11 | Apr 12 | Nov 9 |
"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.