Frost history / Picacho, NM
Picacho, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00296804, 1980 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4,990 ft, 33.350, -105.140. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 21 | Oct 21 |
| Earliest | Mar 31 (1990) | Sep 29 (1999) |
| Latest | May 14 (2014) | Nov 9 (2016) |
| Trend | 3.0 days later per decade | 3.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Apr 15 | Oct 14 | Apr 15 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Apr 29 | Oct 22 | Apr 5 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 2015 | Apr 18 | no data | Mar 15 | no data |
| 2014 | May 14 | Nov 6 | Apr 15 | Nov 11 |
| 2013 | May 3 | Oct 19 | May 3 | Oct 19 |
| 2012 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 | Mar 11 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | May 4 | Oct 19 | Mar 7 | Nov 3 |
| 2010 | Apr 9 | Oct 28 | Apr 8 | Nov 10 |
| 2009 | Apr 18 | Oct 24 | Apr 18 | Nov 15 |
| 2005 | Apr 12 | Nov 1 | Apr 1 | Nov 14 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 2001 | Apr 25 | Nov 9 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Oct 8 | Mar 19 | Nov 2 |
| 1999 | Apr 18 | Sep 29 | Apr 17 | Oct 19 |
| 1998 | Apr 28 | Oct 18 | Apr 19 | Oct 18 |
| 1997 | Apr 27 | Oct 13 | Apr 14 | Oct 14 |
| 1996 | Apr 29 | Oct 21 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 |
| 1995 | no data | Oct 20 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 1994 | Apr 30 | Oct 9 | Apr 30 | Nov 10 |
| 1993 | May 2 | Oct 21 | Apr 4 | Oct 30 |
| 1992 | Apr 21 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 1991 | Apr 29 | Oct 27 | Apr 29 | Oct 29 |
| 1990 | Mar 31 | Oct 10 | Mar 20 | Oct 22 |
| 1989 | Apr 15 | Oct 19 | Apr 11 | Oct 19 |
| 1988 | May 3 | Nov 1 | Apr 11 | Nov 11 |
| 1987 | Apr 23 | Oct 21 | Apr 14 | Nov 9 |
| 1986 | Apr 5 | Oct 12 | Apr 5 | Nov 5 |
| 1985 | Apr 2 | Oct 5 | Mar 31 | Nov 2 |
| 1981 | Apr 6 | no data | Apr 5 | no data |
| 1980 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 18 |
"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.