Frost history / Lybrook, NM
Lybrook, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00295290, 1951 to 2007, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 7,150 ft, 36.230, -107.547. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 14 | Oct 8 |
| Earliest | Apr 27 (1987) | Sep 3 (1961) |
| Latest | Jun 20 (1973) | Oct 29 (1974) |
| Trend | 3.7 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 35 | 39 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 3 and the median first fall date is Oct 20.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | May 25 | Oct 6 | Apr 19 | Oct 21 |
| 2006 | no data | Sep 18 | no data | Oct 19 |
| 2003 | May 11 | no data | Apr 24 | no data |
| 2002 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 4 |
| 2001 | May 6 | Oct 11 | Apr 22 | Nov 19 |
| 1999 | May 7 | Sep 29 | May 7 | Oct 17 |
| 1998 | May 15 | no data | Apr 19 | no data |
| 1997 | May 4 | Oct 9 | May 3 | Oct 13 |
| 1996 | Jun 3 | Sep 19 | Apr 29 | Oct 18 |
| 1995 | May 8 | Oct 5 | May 6 | Oct 22 |
| 1994 | Apr 30 | Oct 15 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 |
| 1993 | May 10 | Oct 18 | May 10 | Oct 27 |
| 1992 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 1991 | May 12 | Oct 27 | May 1 | Oct 28 |
| 1990 | May 2 | Oct 8 | Apr 2 | Oct 9 |
| 1989 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 | Apr 10 | Oct 19 |
| 1988 | May 30 | Sep 30 | May 3 | Nov 12 |
| 1987 | Apr 27 | Oct 19 | Apr 20 | Nov 6 |
| 1986 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 12 |
| 1985 | no data | Sep 30 | no data | Oct 13 |
| 1976 | May 9 | no data | Apr 27 | no data |
| 1975 | May 9 | Oct 9 | Apr 30 | Oct 14 |
| 1974 | Jun 9 | Oct 29 | Jun 9 | Oct 30 |
| 1973 | Jun 20 | Sep 3 | May 28 | Oct 11 |
| 1972 | May 13 | Oct 21 | May 12 | Oct 30 |
| 1971 | Jun 2 | Sep 17 | Jun 2 | Sep 18 |
| 1970 | Jun 12 | Sep 23 | May 15 | Sep 26 |
| 1968 | May 8 | Oct 16 | May 7 | Oct 16 |
| 1967 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 7 |
| 1964 | Jun 1 | Oct 21 | May 9 | Oct 24 |
| 1963 | May 12 | Oct 14 | May 12 | Nov 1 |
| 1962 | May 28 | Oct 13 | May 28 | Nov 6 |
| 1961 | May 14 | Sep 3 | May 13 | Sep 4 |
| 1960 | May 20 | Oct 8 | May 20 | Oct 20 |
| 1959 | May 26 | Sep 25 | May 10 | Oct 8 |
| 1958 | May 9 | Sep 25 | Apr 24 | Oct 21 |
| 1957 | Jun 17 | Oct 13 | Apr 28 | Oct 23 |
| 1956 | May 16 | Oct 14 | Apr 21 | Oct 20 |
| 1954 | Jun 7 | Oct 15 | Mar 28 | Oct 15 |
| 1953 | May 29 | Oct 14 | May 12 | Oct 26 |
| 1952 | May 25 | Oct 16 | Apr 13 | Nov 4 |
| 1951 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 22 |
"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.