Frost history / Capitan, NM
Capitan, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00291440, 1976 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 6,480 ft, 33.531, -105.595. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 11 | Oct 9 |
| Earliest | Apr 21 (1992) | Sep 18 (2006) |
| Latest | May 28 (1987) | Oct 21 (1993) |
| Trend | 4.0 days earlier per decade | 2.5 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 29 and the median first fall date is Oct 18.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | May 13 | Oct 9 | May 4 | Oct 10 |
| 2010 | May 13 | no data | May 1 | no data |
| 2009 | Apr 27 | no data | Apr 19 | no data |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Oct 23 |
| 2006 | Apr 30 | Sep 18 | Mar 25 | Nov 2 |
| 2000 | Apr 29 | no data | Apr 5 | no data |
| 1998 | May 16 | Oct 6 | Apr 29 | Oct 18 |
| 1997 | May 3 | Oct 13 | Apr 25 | Oct 13 |
| 1996 | Apr 30 | Sep 28 | Apr 29 | Oct 21 |
| 1995 | Apr 28 | Sep 22 | Apr 27 | Oct 6 |
| 1994 | May 4 | Oct 8 | Apr 30 | Oct 8 |
| 1993 | May 11 | Oct 21 | May 10 | Oct 21 |
| 1992 | Apr 21 | Oct 8 | Apr 21 | Oct 8 |
| 1991 | May 6 | Oct 19 | Apr 15 | Oct 29 |
| 1990 | May 7 | Oct 9 | May 6 | Oct 22 |
| 1989 | Apr 28 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 1988 | May 12 | Sep 30 | May 3 | Nov 16 |
| 1987 | May 28 | Oct 17 | Apr 23 | Oct 21 |
| 1986 | May 18 | Sep 30 | May 9 | Oct 12 |
| 1985 | May 15 | Oct 5 | May 14 | Oct 5 |
| 1984 | May 8 | Oct 17 | May 8 | Oct 21 |
| 1983 | May 20 | Oct 13 | May 14 | Nov 10 |
| 1982 | May 11 | Oct 3 | May 7 | Oct 10 |
| 1981 | May 24 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Oct 18 |
| 1980 | May 13 | Oct 17 | Apr 27 | Oct 17 |
| 1979 | May 14 | Oct 13 | May 11 | Oct 23 |
| 1978 | May 7 | Oct 14 | May 3 | Oct 14 |
| 1977 | May 21 | Oct 11 | Apr 22 | Oct 12 |
| 1976 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Oct 8 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.