Frost history / Watton 2WSW, MI
Watton 2WSW, MI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00208706, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,394 ft, 46.527, -88.642. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 28 | Sep 23 |
| Earliest | May 15 (2024) | Sep 9 (2006) |
| Latest | Jun 19 (2013) | Oct 13 (2019) |
| Trend | 2.3 days earlier per decade | 9.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 18 | 19 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 18 and the median first fall date is Oct 8.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jun 1 | Oct 8 | May 22 | Oct 25 |
| 2024 | May 15 | Oct 7 | Apr 26 | Oct 9 |
| 2023 | May 25 | Oct 8 | May 17 | Oct 8 |
| 2022 | May 23 | Sep 28 | May 4 | Sep 28 |
| 2021 | May 29 | Sep 23 | May 29 | Oct 25 |
| 2020 | Jun 13 | Sep 18 | May 12 | Sep 18 |
| 2019 | Jun 3 | Oct 13 | May 7 | Oct 25 |
| 2018 | no data | Oct 12 | no data | Oct 13 |
| 2016 | May 19 | no data | May 19 | no data |
| 2015 | Jun 7 | Oct 1 | Jun 2 | Oct 1 |
| 2014 | May 17 | Sep 12 | Apr 28 | Oct 19 |
| 2013 | Jun 19 | Sep 16 | May 25 | Oct 14 |
| 2012 | Jun 1 | Sep 15 | Apr 30 | Sep 26 |
| 2011 | May 27 | Sep 15 | May 27 | Sep 16 |
| 2010 | May 16 | Sep 19 | May 10 | Oct 3 |
| 2009 | Jun 7 | Sep 30 | May 31 | Oct 1 |
| 2008 | May 28 | Oct 3 | May 28 | Oct 4 |
| 2007 | May 21 | Sep 15 | May 17 | Oct 14 |
| 2006 | Jun 11 | Sep 9 | May 22 | Sep 10 |
| 2005 | no data | Sep 23 | no data | Oct 8 |
"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.