Ochoa, NM: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00296281, 1992 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,398 ft, 32.166, -103.425. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 2	Nov 10
Earliest	Mar 1 (2004)	Oct 10 (2000)
Latest	May 3 (2013)	Nov 24 (2003)
Trend	3.7 days later per decade	4.8 days later per decade
Years with data	16	14

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.

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	Mar 7	Nov 18	Mar 7	Nov 18
2014	Apr 16	Nov 11	Apr 15	Nov 12
2013	May 3	Nov 9	May 3	Nov 13
2012	Apr 5	Oct 28	Mar 12	Nov 14
2011	Mar 30	Nov 3	Mar 9	Nov 3
2010	Apr 8	Nov 13	Apr 8	Nov 13
2009	no data	Oct 27	no data	Oct 30
2007	Apr 14	no data	Apr 8	no data
2006	Mar 26	no data	Mar 24	no data
2005	Apr 1	Nov 16	Mar 17	Nov 16
2004	Mar 1	Nov 2	Feb 16	Nov 30
2003	no data	Nov 24	no data	Nov 24
2002	Mar 26	Nov 17	Mar 10	Nov 28
2001	Mar 16	Nov 21	Mar 16	Nov 28
2000	no data	Oct 10	no data	Oct 10
1997	Apr 14	no data	Apr 13	no data
1994	Apr 7	no data	Apr 7	no data
1993	Mar 15	Oct 23	Mar 15	Oct 30
1992	Apr 3	no data	Jan 24	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.