Frost history / Amargosa Farms-Garey, NV
Amargosa Farms-Garey, NV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00260150, 1966 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,450 ft, 36.572, -116.462. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 25 | Nov 9 |
| Earliest | Feb 7 (2014) | Oct 13 (1969) |
| Latest | Apr 28 (1970) | Dec 9 (2002) |
| Trend | 5.2 days earlier per decade | 5.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 35 | 36 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 28 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Feb 7 | no data | Feb 5 | no data |
| 2013 | Mar 1 | Dec 4 | Feb 28 | Dec 5 |
| 2012 | Mar 22 | Nov 10 | Mar 20 | Nov 10 |
| 2011 | Apr 10 | Nov 3 | Mar 1 | Nov 3 |
| 2010 | Apr 3 | Nov 10 | Jan 25 | Nov 10 |
| 2009 | Apr 5 | Nov 15 | Mar 11 | Nov 16 |
| 2008 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | Dec 14 |
| 2005 | Mar 19 | Nov 28 | Mar 19 | Nov 28 |
| 2004 | Feb 15 | Nov 3 | Feb 14 | Nov 30 |
| 2003 | Mar 3 | Nov 2 | Feb 10 | Nov 23 |
| 2002 | Mar 19 | Dec 9 | Mar 15 | Dec 19 |
| 2000 | Mar 7 | Nov 8 | Jan 29 | Nov 13 |
| 1999 | Apr 10 | Nov 23 | Apr 10 | Nov 23 |
| 1998 | Apr 7 | Nov 10 | Jan 28 | Nov 10 |
| 1997 | Apr 5 | Nov 15 | Mar 6 | Dec 4 |
| 1996 | Mar 2 | Oct 22 | Feb 27 | Nov 7 |
| 1995 | Mar 26 | Nov 5 | Mar 24 | Dec 18 |
| 1994 | Feb 25 | Nov 4 | Feb 24 | Nov 4 |
| 1993 | Mar 2 | Nov 7 | Feb 25 | Nov 16 |
| 1992 | Feb 16 | Nov 11 | Jan 26 | Nov 11 |
| 1991 | Mar 28 | Oct 29 | Mar 16 | Oct 31 |
| 1990 | Mar 14 | Nov 5 | Mar 13 | Nov 27 |
| 1989 | Mar 5 | Nov 2 | Mar 4 | Nov 28 |
| 1988 | Mar 30 | Nov 15 | Mar 29 | Nov 20 |
| 1987 | Mar 30 | Nov 16 | Feb 27 | Nov 19 |
| 1986 | Feb 11 | Nov 7 | Feb 11 | Dec 10 |
| 1985 | Mar 8 | Nov 13 | Mar 4 | Nov 13 |
| 1984 | Apr 1 | Oct 16 | Feb 21 | Dec 15 |
| 1983 | Mar 25 | Nov 21 | Jan 21 | Nov 22 |
| 1982 | Apr 2 | Nov 2 | Feb 9 | Dec 16 |
| 1981 | Apr 2 | Nov 26 | Feb 6 | Nov 26 |
| 1980 | Apr 1 | Oct 17 | Mar 7 | Nov 14 |
| 1979 | Mar 18 | Oct 21 | Feb 24 | Oct 31 |
| 1978 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Nov 17 |
| 1970 | Apr 28 | no data | Apr 28 | no data |
| 1969 | Mar 25 | Oct 13 | Mar 10 | Nov 18 |
| 1968 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 29 |
| 1966 | Apr 20 | Oct 14 | Apr 20 | Nov 10 |
"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.