Frost history / Bernardo, NM
Bernardo, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00290915, 1962 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4,735 ft, 34.422, -106.832. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 8 | Oct 9 |
| Earliest | Apr 2 (2000) | Sep 14 (1967) |
| Latest | Jun 12 (1986) | Dec 10 (1986) |
| Trend | 9.7 days earlier per decade | 6.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 34 | 38 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 2 and the median first fall date is Oct 15.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | no data | Oct 11 | no data | Oct 11 |
| 2005 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 2000 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 | Apr 2 | Nov 2 |
| 1999 | May 7 | Oct 13 | May 7 | Oct 21 |
| 1998 | Apr 28 | Oct 6 | Apr 19 | Oct 18 |
| 1997 | May 3 | Oct 13 | Apr 14 | Oct 13 |
| 1996 | Apr 30 | Oct 22 | Apr 30 | Oct 22 |
| 1995 | Apr 25 | Oct 5 | Apr 25 | Oct 6 |
| 1994 | May 1 | Oct 9 | Apr 28 | Oct 10 |
| 1993 | May 3 | Oct 20 | May 3 | Oct 20 |
| 1992 | Apr 20 | Oct 8 | Apr 20 | Oct 8 |
| 1991 | May 6 | Oct 27 | Apr 29 | Oct 29 |
| 1990 | Apr 3 | Oct 9 | Mar 20 | Oct 10 |
| 1989 | Apr 28 | Oct 19 | Apr 28 | Oct 19 |
| 1988 | May 7 | Oct 24 | Apr 11 | Nov 6 |
| 1987 | Apr 15 | Oct 19 | Apr 15 | Nov 8 |
| 1986 | Jun 12 | Dec 10 | Jun 10 | Dec 19 |
| 1985 | May 14 | Nov 2 | Apr 2 | Nov 7 |
| 1984 | Apr 28 | Oct 19 | Apr 8 | Oct 19 |
| 1983 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 1980 | Jun 6 | no data | Jun 4 | no data |
| 1979 | May 21 | Oct 6 | May 14 | Oct 10 |
| 1978 | May 18 | Sep 19 | May 18 | Oct 11 |
| 1977 | May 22 | Oct 12 | May 11 | Oct 12 |
| 1976 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Oct 8 |
| 1975 | May 31 | no data | May 8 | no data |
| 1974 | May 22 | Sep 29 | May 22 | Oct 31 |
| 1973 | May 3 | Sep 28 | May 3 | Oct 11 |
| 1972 | May 21 | Sep 26 | May 9 | Nov 1 |
| 1971 | Jun 1 | Sep 16 | May 20 | Oct 20 |
| 1970 | May 6 | Sep 23 | May 4 | Sep 23 |
| 1969 | May 8 | Oct 2 | Apr 29 | Oct 6 |
| 1968 | Jun 11 | Sep 17 | May 18 | Sep 17 |
| 1967 | May 16 | Sep 14 | May 16 | Oct 16 |
| 1966 | May 12 | Oct 13 | Apr 21 | Oct 15 |
| 1965 | Jun 3 | Sep 21 | May 8 | Sep 21 |
| 1964 | May 11 | Oct 2 | May 11 | Oct 8 |
| 1963 | Jun 9 | Oct 4 | Apr 25 | Oct 15 |
| 1962 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Oct 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.