Frost history / Pietown 19NE, NM
Pietown 19NE, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00296812, 1989 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 7,961 ft, 34.493, -107.888. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 23 | Oct 9 |
| Earliest | Apr 21 (1992) | Sep 17 (2006) |
| Latest | Jun 9 (2019) | Oct 26 (2003) |
| Trend | 1.0 days later per decade | 2.9 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 18 | 18 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 29 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Jun 9 | Oct 11 | May 21 | Oct 11 |
| 2018 | Apr 21 | Oct 4 | Apr 21 | Oct 16 |
| 2015 | May 25 | no data | May 17 | no data |
| 2013 | no data | Sep 27 | no data | Sep 27 |
| 2010 | May 25 | no data | May 14 | no data |
| 2008 | May 23 | Oct 12 | May 3 | Oct 13 |
| 2007 | May 7 | Oct 6 | May 7 | Oct 22 |
| 2006 | no data | Sep 17 | no data | Sep 17 |
| 2005 | May 12 | Oct 10 | Apr 21 | Nov 1 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 14 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 2002 | May 23 | no data | Mar 29 | no data |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 11 | no data | Oct 11 |
| 1999 | Jun 5 | no data | May 4 | no data |
| 1997 | May 2 | no data | Apr 27 | no data |
| 1996 | Apr 29 | Sep 28 | Apr 29 | Oct 21 |
| 1995 | May 30 | Sep 30 | May 7 | Oct 5 |
| 1994 | May 9 | Oct 6 | Apr 29 | Oct 9 |
| 1993 | Jun 7 | Oct 18 | May 9 | Oct 27 |
| 1992 | Apr 21 | Oct 8 | Apr 20 | Nov 1 |
| 1991 | Jun 1 | Oct 25 | Apr 29 | Oct 26 |
| 1990 | Jun 1 | Oct 8 | Apr 20 | Oct 8 |
| 1989 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 | Apr 27 | 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.