Frost history / Espanola, NM
Espanola, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00293031, 1951 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 5,620 ft, 35.999, -106.059. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 11 | Oct 10 |
| Earliest | May 1 (2009) | Sep 16 (1971) |
| Latest | May 26 (2010) | Oct 24 (1988) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 24 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 26 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | May 26 | Oct 12 | May 5 | Oct 26 |
| 2009 | May 1 | Oct 2 | Apr 11 | Oct 2 |
| 2008 | May 11 | Oct 13 | May 4 | Oct 13 |
| 2007 | May 7 | Oct 9 | Apr 22 | Oct 16 |
| 2000 | May 12 | Sep 24 | Apr 15 | Oct 31 |
| 1998 | May 16 | no data | Apr 19 | no data |
| 1997 | May 3 | Oct 9 | Apr 15 | Oct 13 |
| 1994 | no data | Sep 28 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 1991 | May 6 | no data | May 2 | no data |
| 1990 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 1988 | May 9 | Oct 24 | Apr 11 | Nov 1 |
| 1987 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Oct 19 |
| 1986 | May 11 | Oct 12 | Apr 27 | Oct 13 |
| 1985 | May 15 | Sep 30 | Apr 1 | Sep 30 |
| 1984 | May 9 | Oct 17 | Apr 30 | Oct 22 |
| 1983 | May 14 | Oct 23 | May 3 | Oct 24 |
| 1982 | May 8 | Sep 29 | Apr 25 | Oct 9 |
| 1981 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 18 |
| 1980 | May 25 | no data | Apr 17 | no data |
| 1979 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Oct 21 |
| 1978 | no data | Oct 14 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 1977 | no data | Oct 12 | no data | Oct 12 |
| 1976 | May 2 | Oct 10 | May 1 | Oct 19 |
| 1975 | May 23 | Oct 9 | May 7 | Oct 14 |
| 1973 | May 2 | Oct 11 | Apr 23 | Oct 25 |
| 1972 | May 8 | Oct 22 | May 1 | Nov 5 |
| 1971 | no data | Sep 16 | no data | Sep 20 |
| 1970 | no data | Sep 25 | no data | Oct 8 |
| 1969 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 7 |
| 1968 | May 16 | Oct 6 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 |
| 1967 | May 15 | Oct 12 | May 14 | Oct 16 |
| 1966 | May 12 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 1953 | May 12 | no data | May 12 | no data |
| 1951 | May 4 | no data | May 3 | no data |
"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.