Frost history / Mccarty Rch, NM
Mccarty Rch, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00295516, 1984 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4,410 ft, 35.602, -103.364. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 21 | Oct 19 |
| Earliest | Apr 2 (1992) | Sep 25 (2000) |
| Latest | May 13 (2010) | Nov 11 (2014) |
| Trend | 0.6 days later per decade | 4.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 25 | 26 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Apr 21 | Nov 1 | Mar 26 | Nov 2 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 11 | Apr 15 | Nov 11 |
| 2013 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 18 |
| 2012 | Apr 5 | no data | Mar 20 | no data |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2010 | May 13 | Oct 26 | Apr 8 | Nov 11 |
| 2009 | Apr 10 | Oct 10 | Apr 10 | Oct 10 |
| 2008 | May 3 | Oct 22 | May 3 | Oct 23 |
| 2007 | Apr 25 | Oct 22 | Apr 13 | Nov 1 |
| 2006 | Apr 26 | Oct 13 | Apr 8 | Oct 31 |
| 2001 | Apr 23 | Oct 13 | Mar 28 | Oct 13 |
| 2000 | Apr 16 | Sep 25 | Apr 16 | Nov 7 |
| 1998 | Apr 19 | Nov 8 | Mar 31 | Nov 8 |
| 1997 | Apr 15 | Oct 25 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 |
| 1996 | Apr 29 | Oct 18 | Apr 15 | Oct 18 |
| 1995 | Apr 27 | Oct 20 | Apr 24 | Oct 24 |
| 1994 | Apr 30 | Oct 31 | Apr 28 | Nov 15 |
| 1993 | Apr 21 | Oct 21 | Apr 15 | Oct 27 |
| 1992 | Apr 2 | Oct 8 | Mar 23 | Nov 4 |
| 1991 | May 1 | Oct 29 | May 1 | Oct 29 |
| 1990 | May 1 | Oct 9 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 |
| 1989 | Apr 11 | Oct 18 | Apr 11 | Oct 19 |
| 1988 | May 3 | Oct 28 | Apr 11 | Nov 12 |
| 1987 | Apr 7 | Oct 20 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 |
| 1986 | Apr 14 | Oct 12 | Apr 4 | Oct 12 |
| 1985 | Apr 5 | Sep 29 | Apr 5 | Oct 8 |
| 1984 | May 8 | Sep 29 | Apr 27 | Oct 17 |
"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.