Frost history / Truth Or Consequences, NM
Truth Or Consequences, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00299128, 1951 to 2017, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4,296 ft, 33.135, -107.232. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 31 | Nov 6 |
| Earliest | Mar 6 (1953) | Oct 21 (1996) |
| Latest | Apr 29 (2017) | Nov 25 (2007) |
| Trend | 1.2 days later per decade | 1.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 24 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 11 and the median first fall date is Nov 15.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Apr 29 | Nov 18 | Feb 25 | Nov 18 |
| 2016 | Apr 4 | Nov 18 | Feb 28 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 12 |
| 2012 | Mar 20 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 2011 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 8 |
| 2010 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Nov 25 |
| 2004 | Mar 6 | no data | Mar 1 | no data |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | no data | Mar 29 | no data |
| 2002 | Mar 18 | Nov 10 | Mar 5 | Nov 17 |
| 2001 | no data | Nov 19 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1998 | Apr 1 | no data | Apr 1 | no data |
| 1997 | Mar 25 | Oct 25 | Mar 5 | Oct 26 |
| 1996 | Apr 6 | Oct 21 | Mar 9 | Oct 21 |
| 1995 | Apr 19 | Nov 18 | Apr 10 | Nov 27 |
| 1994 | Apr 27 | Nov 4 | Mar 29 | Nov 19 |
| 1993 | Apr 8 | Oct 27 | Mar 13 | Oct 29 |
| 1992 | Mar 11 | Nov 5 | Feb 24 | Nov 6 |
| 1991 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 | Feb 19 | Oct 30 |
| 1990 | Mar 16 | Nov 4 | Feb 22 | Nov 28 |
| 1989 | Mar 22 | Oct 29 | Mar 5 | Nov 27 |
| 1988 | Apr 4 | Nov 15 | Mar 29 | Nov 16 |
| 1987 | Apr 6 | Nov 10 | Mar 31 | Nov 10 |
| 1986 | Mar 21 | no data | Feb 11 | no data |
| 1985 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 15 |
| 1984 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1956 | Apr 12 | Oct 25 | Mar 16 | Oct 31 |
| 1955 | Apr 2 | Nov 8 | Mar 29 | Nov 8 |
| 1954 | Mar 27 | Nov 6 | Mar 14 | Nov 29 |
| 1953 | Mar 6 | Nov 8 | Mar 5 | Nov 20 |
| 1952 | Mar 28 | Nov 5 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 |
| 1951 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 2 |
"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.