Frost history / Petroglyph Natl Mon, NM
Petroglyph Natl Mon, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00296754, 1994 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 5,121 ft, 35.139, -106.711. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 16 | Oct 24 |
| Earliest | Apr 2 (2000) | Oct 10 (1994) |
| Latest | May 2 (2008) | Nov 6 (2005) |
| Trend | 2.9 days earlier per decade | 2.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 21 | 22 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 19 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 2024 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 | Mar 27 | Nov 7 |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 | Mar 23 | Oct 25 |
| 2021 | Apr 19 | no data | Mar 25 | no data |
| 2020 | Apr 15 | Oct 26 | Apr 15 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | Oct 10 | Mar 23 | Oct 24 |
| 2018 | Apr 13 | Nov 3 | Mar 19 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 2013 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 2012 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | May 1 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 2009 | Apr 16 | Oct 27 | Apr 6 | Oct 29 |
| 2008 | May 2 | Oct 23 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 |
| 2007 | Apr 14 | Oct 22 | Mar 31 | Nov 25 |
| 2006 | Apr 19 | Oct 19 | Mar 23 | Nov 13 |
| 2005 | Apr 11 | Nov 6 | Apr 1 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | Apr 12 | Oct 30 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 23 | no data | Mar 15 | no data |
| 2000 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 | Apr 2 | Nov 2 |
| 1999 | Apr 16 | Oct 18 | Apr 16 | Oct 18 |
| 1998 | Apr 27 | Oct 17 | Apr 19 | Nov 10 |
| 1997 | Apr 26 | Oct 14 | Apr 13 | Oct 25 |
| 1996 | Apr 29 | Oct 21 | Apr 6 | Oct 22 |
| 1995 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 | Mar 31 | Nov 11 |
| 1994 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Nov 14 |
"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.