Last Frost Day

Frost history / Middlegate-Clifford, NV

Middlegate-Clifford, NV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00265132, 1988 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4,600 ft, 39.293, -118.020. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianJun 11Sep 10
EarliestMay 13 (2009)Aug 8 (1995)
LatestJul 13 (1995)Oct 6 (2011)
Trend3.7 days earlier per decade1.8 days later per decade
Years with data1721

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 30 and the median first fall date is Sep 26.

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 30May 15May 30Jun 14Jun 29Jul 14Jul 291990200020101989: Jun 11990: Jun 131992: Jun 161993: Jun 11994: Jun 161995: Jul 131996: May 231998: Jun 171999: Jun 112000: Jun 92001: Jun 162002: Jun 102003: May 202006: Jun 182007: Jun 72009: May 132011: Jun 18

First fall frost (32°F)

Jul 29Aug 13Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 121990200020101988: Sep 121989: Sep 121990: Sep 161991: Aug 281992: Aug 231993: Sep 141994: Sep 111995: Aug 81996: Sep 61997: Sep 151998: Sep 181999: Aug 312000: Sep 52001: Sep 82002: Sep 192003: Sep 102006: Aug 172007: Sep 112008: Sep 12010: Aug 312011: Oct 6

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
2011Jun 18Oct 6Jun 3Oct 8
2010no dataAug 31no dataSep 6
2009May 13no dataMay 13no data
2008no dataSep 1no dataSep 2
2007Jun 7Sep 11Jun 7Sep 24
2006Jun 18Aug 17May 30Sep 16
2003May 20Sep 10May 10Oct 11
2002Jun 10Sep 19May 24Sep 26
2001Jun 16Sep 8Jun 14Oct 9
2000Jun 9Sep 5May 15Sep 5
1999Jun 11Aug 31Jun 9Sep 4
1998Jun 17Sep 18May 30Oct 4
1997no dataSep 15no dataOct 3
1996May 23Sep 6May 20Sep 17
1995Jul 13Aug 8Jun 24Sep 30
1994Jun 16Sep 11Apr 26Oct 17
1993Jun 1Sep 14Apr 28Sep 14
1992Jun 16Aug 23Jun 14Oct 6
1991no dataAug 28no dataOct 4
1990Jun 13Sep 16May 16Sep 24
1989Jun 1Sep 12May 31Oct 5
1988no dataSep 12no dataSep 13

"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.