Last Frost Day

Frost history / Weare, NH

Weare, NH: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00278972, 1990 to 2003, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 720 ft, 43.085, -71.738. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 14Oct 3
EarliestApr 23 (1994)Sep 20 (1993)
LatestJun 4 (2000)Oct 19 (1990)
Trend5.9 days earlier per decade4.4 days later per decade
Years with data1313

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 25 and the median first fall date is Oct 7.

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 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14199020001990: May 251991: May 191992: May 261993: Apr 291994: Apr 231995: May 71996: May 151997: May 271998: May 141999: May 142000: Jun 42001: May 72003: Apr 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27199020001990: Oct 191991: Sep 221992: Sep 241993: Sep 201994: Oct 31995: Sep 241996: Oct 41997: Oct 121998: Oct 61999: Oct 72000: Sep 292001: Oct 12002: Oct 9

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
2003Apr 25no dataApr 25no data
2002no dataOct 9no dataOct 15
2001May 7Oct 1May 7Oct 20
2000Jun 4Sep 29Apr 15Sep 29
1999May 14Oct 7Apr 16Oct 7
1998May 14Oct 6Apr 26Oct 6
1997May 27Oct 12Apr 16Oct 19
1996May 15Oct 4Apr 29Oct 4
1995May 7Sep 24Apr 25Nov 5
1994Apr 23Oct 3Apr 23Oct 12
1993Apr 29Sep 20Apr 29Oct 1
1992May 26Sep 24May 7Sep 24
1991May 19Sep 22Apr 20Sep 22
1990May 25Oct 19Apr 19Oct 20

"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.