Melrose, NM: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00295617, 1951 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4,599 ft, 34.428, -103.625. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 19	Oct 20
Earliest	Mar 30 (1969)	Sep 16 (1951)
Latest	May 19 (1971)	Nov 16 (2014)
Trend	1.5 days earlier per decade	1.3 days later per decade
Years with data	63	64

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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.

Chart

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
2018	Apr 15	no data	Apr 15	no data
2017	Apr 30	Oct 28	Apr 5	Oct 28
2016	no data	Nov 9	no data	Nov 19
2015	no data	Nov 6	no data	Nov 6
2014	Apr 18	Nov 16	Apr 15	Nov 16
2013	May 3	Oct 19	May 3	Oct 19
2012	Apr 4	Oct 8	Mar 20	Oct 27
2011	May 3	Oct 27	Mar 14	Nov 3
2010	Apr 8	Nov 5	Apr 8	Nov 13
2009	Apr 17	Oct 11	Apr 6	Oct 30
2008	May 3	Oct 23	Apr 13	Oct 24
2007	Apr 14	Oct 23	Apr 14	Nov 6
2006	Apr 8	Oct 23	Mar 24	Oct 31
2005	Apr 12	Nov 10	Apr 11	Nov 16
2004	Apr 13	Oct 14	Feb 26	Nov 3
2003	Apr 20	Oct 26	Apr 9	Nov 5
2002	Apr 4	Oct 30	Apr 3	Nov 6
2001	Apr 12	Oct 13	Mar 16	Nov 20
2000	Apr 16	Sep 25	Mar 20	Nov 7
1999	Apr 17	Sep 29	Mar 20	Nov 2
1998	Apr 19	Nov 10	Mar 31	Dec 8
1997	Apr 26	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 27
1996	Apr 20	Oct 18	Apr 20	Oct 22
1995	Apr 27	Oct 20	Apr 23	Nov 3
1994	Apr 28	Nov 5	Apr 6	Nov 10
1993	Apr 21	Oct 21	Mar 17	Oct 29
1992	Apr 3	Oct 8	Mar 23	Oct 8
1991	May 1	Oct 19	Mar 31	Oct 29
1990	Apr 6	Oct 9	Mar 25	Oct 21
1989	Apr 11	Oct 19	Apr 11	Oct 19
1988	May 3	Nov 6	Apr 11	Nov 16
1987	Apr 22	Oct 20	Apr 3	Nov 10
1986	Apr 14	Oct 12	Apr 4	Nov 9
1985	Apr 5	Oct 5	Mar 31	Nov 2
1984	May 8	Oct 19	Apr 4	Nov 10
1983	Apr 16	Sep 21	Apr 15	Nov 15
1982	Apr 21	Oct 9	Mar 27	Oct 29
1981	Apr 5	Oct 26	Mar 23	Oct 26
1980	Apr 14	Oct 17	Apr 14	Oct 24
1979	May 4	Oct 22	Apr 4	Nov 2
1978	May 3	Nov 7	Mar 24	Nov 15
1977	Apr 6	Oct 12	Apr 4	Nov 2
1976	Apr 18	Oct 8	Mar 31	Oct 8
1975	Apr 19	Oct 24	Apr 9	Nov 10
1974	Apr 16	Nov 4	Apr 5	Nov 14
1973	May 3	Oct 28	Apr 10	Nov 16
1972	Apr 15	Oct 19	Apr 1	Oct 31
1971	May 19	Oct 20	Apr 7	Oct 31
1970	May 1	Oct 8	May 1	Oct 8
1969	Mar 30	Oct 12	Mar 27	Oct 13
1968	Apr 29	Oct 18	Apr 24	Oct 18
1967	May 15	Oct 16	May 2	Oct 31
1966	May 2	Oct 15	Apr 20	Oct 15
1965	May 9	Oct 21	Mar 30	Nov 27
1964	Apr 21	Nov 12	Apr 8	Nov 13
1963	Apr 19	Nov 1	Mar 20	Nov 18
1962	May 1	Oct 29	Apr 1	Nov 8
1961	Apr 25	Oct 2	Apr 16	Nov 3
1960	May 7	Oct 31	Apr 3	Oct 31
1959	Apr 14	Oct 14	Apr 12	Nov 5
1958	Apr 24	Oct 22	Apr 14	Oct 31
1957	no data	Oct 26	no data	Oct 27
1956	Apr 19	no data	Apr 9	no data
1953	May 14	Nov 8	May 1	Nov 10
1952	Apr 10	Oct 7	Apr 10	Nov 6
1951	Apr 16	Sep 16	Apr 16	Nov 1

"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.