Frost history / Newkirk, NM
Newkirk, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00296115, 1967 to 2004, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4,564 ft, 35.070, -104.257. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 29 | Oct 18 |
| Earliest | Mar 31 (2002) | Sep 21 (1983) |
| Latest | May 19 (1971) | Nov 9 (1987) |
| Trend | 2.6 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 29 | 31 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | no data | Oct 14 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 2002 | Mar 31 | Oct 30 | Mar 31 | Nov 6 |
| 2001 | Apr 23 | Oct 13 | Mar 29 | Oct 26 |
| 2000 | May 3 | Sep 25 | Apr 8 | Nov 7 |
| 1998 | Apr 21 | Oct 18 | Apr 19 | Oct 18 |
| 1997 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 13 | no data |
| 1996 | Apr 29 | Oct 18 | Apr 29 | Oct 22 |
| 1993 | May 2 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 1992 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 8 |
| 1990 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Oct 21 |
| 1989 | May 1 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1988 | May 3 | Oct 28 | Apr 11 | Nov 16 |
| 1987 | Apr 22 | Nov 9 | Apr 8 | Nov 9 |
| 1986 | Apr 20 | Oct 12 | Apr 14 | Nov 5 |
| 1985 | Apr 5 | Nov 2 | Apr 1 | Nov 15 |
| 1984 | May 8 | Oct 22 | Apr 5 | Nov 10 |
| 1983 | May 18 | Sep 21 | Apr 9 | Nov 10 |
| 1982 | May 7 | Oct 9 | Mar 22 | Oct 28 |
| 1981 | Apr 5 | Oct 26 | Apr 5 | Nov 9 |
| 1980 | Apr 25 | Oct 18 | Apr 14 | Oct 19 |
| 1979 | May 11 | Oct 22 | Apr 13 | Oct 22 |
| 1978 | May 7 | Oct 26 | Mar 26 | Nov 14 |
| 1977 | Apr 6 | Oct 12 | Apr 5 | Nov 2 |
| 1976 | Apr 17 | Oct 8 | Mar 31 | Oct 8 |
| 1975 | Apr 30 | Oct 24 | Apr 30 | Oct 25 |
| 1974 | Apr 21 | Nov 4 | Apr 14 | Nov 14 |
| 1973 | May 3 | Oct 25 | Apr 18 | Oct 31 |
| 1972 | May 1 | Oct 19 | Apr 27 | Oct 31 |
| 1971 | May 19 | Oct 20 | Apr 8 | Oct 20 |
| 1970 | May 2 | Sep 26 | Apr 30 | Oct 8 |
| 1969 | Apr 28 | Oct 11 | Mar 31 | Oct 13 |
| 1968 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 19 | Nov 11 |
| 1967 | no data | Oct 16 | no data | Oct 30 |
"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.