Frost history / Sussex 8 Nnw, NJ
Sussex 8 Nnw, NJ: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00288648, 1992 to 2003, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,020 ft, 41.325, -74.645. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 18 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Mar 25 (1998) | Sep 29 (2000) |
| Latest | May 19 (2002) | Nov 4 (1995) |
| Trend | 7.6 days later per decade | 0.7 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Apr 18 | Oct 3 | Apr 8 | Nov 8 |
| 2002 | May 19 | Oct 15 | Apr 7 | Oct 22 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 7 | Apr 19 | Oct 9 |
| 2000 | Apr 18 | Sep 29 | Apr 14 | Nov 18 |
| 1999 | Apr 24 | Oct 7 | Apr 5 | Oct 28 |
| 1998 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 1997 | Apr 18 | Oct 2 | Apr 10 | Oct 23 |
| 1996 | Apr 15 | Oct 4 | Apr 9 | Nov 3 |
| 1995 | Apr 17 | Nov 4 | Apr 10 | Nov 5 |
| 1994 | Apr 22 | Oct 11 | Apr 8 | Nov 12 |
| 1993 | Apr 27 | Oct 1 | Mar 23 | Oct 11 |
| 1992 | Apr 15 | Oct 1 | Apr 14 | Oct 6 |
"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.