Frost history / Tres Piedras, NM
Tres Piedras, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00299085, 1952 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 8,139 ft, 36.651, -105.972. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jun 10 | Sep 14 |
| Earliest | May 19 (1956) | Aug 12 (1955) |
| Latest | Jul 21 (1958) | Oct 6 (2008) |
| Trend | 0.8 days earlier per decade | 4.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 21 | 17 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 29 and the median first fall date is Sep 30.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | May 27 | no data | Apr 19 | no data |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 7 |
| 2005 | no data | Sep 15 | no data | Oct 11 |
| 1993 | no data | Sep 14 | no data | Sep 15 |
| 1992 | Jun 18 | no data | May 12 | no data |
| 1991 | Jun 7 | Sep 16 | May 5 | Oct 20 |
| 1990 | Jun 17 | Sep 18 | Jun 2 | Sep 24 |
| 1989 | Jun 8 | Sep 14 | Jun 1 | Oct 8 |
| 1988 | no data | Sep 5 | no data | Sep 30 |
| 1984 | no data | Sep 18 | no data | Oct 6 |
| 1980 | Jun 20 | Sep 22 | Jun 2 | Sep 24 |
| 1979 | Jun 11 | Sep 14 | May 14 | Oct 17 |
| 1974 | no data | Sep 2 | no data | Sep 28 |
| 1973 | Jun 20 | Sep 3 | Jun 5 | Sep 3 |
| 1964 | Jun 1 | no data | Jun 1 | no data |
| 1963 | Jun 10 | no data | May 13 | no data |
| 1962 | Jun 17 | no data | May 29 | no data |
| 1961 | Jun 3 | no data | May 13 | no data |
| 1960 | Jun 1 | no data | May 26 | no data |
| 1959 | May 29 | no data | May 22 | no data |
| 1958 | Jul 21 | Sep 16 | Jun 13 | Sep 16 |
| 1957 | Jun 25 | no data | Jun 22 | no data |
| 1956 | May 19 | Aug 22 | May 18 | Oct 11 |
| 1955 | Jul 8 | Aug 12 | Jun 19 | Sep 20 |
| 1954 | Jun 15 | no data | Jun 8 | no data |
| 1953 | Jun 5 | Aug 28 | Jun 5 | Oct 4 |
| 1952 | May 27 | Sep 13 | May 18 | Sep 13 |
"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.