Frost history / Waste Isolt'N Pilot Plt, NM
Waste Isolt'N Pilot Plt, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00299569, 1987 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,411 ft, 32.378, -103.799. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 13 | Oct 31 |
| Earliest | Jan 31 (1992) | Oct 19 (1989) |
| Latest | May 3 (2013) | Nov 23 (2003) |
| Trend | 5.4 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 26 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 20 and the median first fall date is Nov 12.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Apr 28 | Oct 31 | Mar 28 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Apr 14 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 2021 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 2020 | Apr 13 | Oct 26 | Feb 27 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Apr 14 | Oct 24 | Mar 31 | Oct 24 |
| 2018 | Mar 20 | no data | Mar 20 | no data |
| 2017 | Apr 30 | Oct 28 | Mar 2 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Apr 15 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 |
| 2014 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Nov 12 |
| 2013 | May 3 | Nov 13 | May 3 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2011 | May 3 | Nov 2 | Mar 9 | Nov 3 |
| 2010 | Apr 8 | Nov 13 | Mar 25 | Nov 13 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2008 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 | Mar 19 | Nov 7 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 | Mar 6 | Oct 23 |
| 2005 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | Apr 12 | no data | Feb 16 | no data |
| 2003 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Mar 26 | Nov 11 | Mar 6 | Nov 25 |
| 2001 | Mar 16 | no data | Mar 16 | no data |
| 1999 | Mar 19 | Oct 19 | Mar 19 | Nov 24 |
| 1998 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Dec 7 |
| 1997 | Apr 13 | Oct 25 | Apr 12 | Oct 26 |
| 1996 | Apr 4 | Oct 21 | Mar 26 | Oct 21 |
| 1995 | Apr 23 | no data | Apr 23 | no data |
| 1994 | Apr 28 | Nov 21 | Apr 6 | Nov 27 |
| 1993 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 1992 | Jan 31 | Nov 4 | Jan 24 | Nov 21 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Oct 30 | Mar 31 | Oct 30 |
| 1990 | May 2 | Nov 5 | Mar 20 | Nov 28 |
| 1989 | Mar 22 | Oct 19 | Mar 21 | Nov 1 |
| 1988 | Apr 10 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 1987 | Apr 8 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
"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.