Frost history / Winston, NM
Winston, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00299806, 1951 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 6,196 ft, 33.350, -107.649. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 9 | Oct 7 |
| Earliest | Apr 20 (1992) | Sep 20 (1993) |
| Latest | May 28 (2012) | Oct 27 (1954) |
| Trend | 0.9 days earlier per decade | 1.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 36 | 35 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | May 19 | Sep 28 | May 4 | Sep 28 |
| 2012 | May 28 | Oct 15 | May 1 | Oct 26 |
| 2011 | May 20 | Oct 8 | May 4 | Oct 8 |
| 2010 | May 14 | Oct 21 | May 1 | Oct 23 |
| 2009 | Apr 27 | Sep 23 | Apr 27 | Oct 26 |
| 2008 | May 3 | Oct 7 | May 3 | Oct 13 |
| 2007 | May 7 | Oct 8 | Apr 25 | Oct 8 |
| 2006 | May 1 | Oct 10 | Apr 28 | Oct 19 |
| 2005 | May 11 | Oct 10 | May 2 | Oct 23 |
| 2004 | May 2 | no data | Apr 30 | no data |
| 2003 | May 11 | Oct 25 | May 10 | Oct 25 |
| 2002 | May 7 | Oct 3 | Apr 20 | Oct 24 |
| 2001 | May 4 | Oct 10 | May 4 | Oct 10 |
| 2000 | May 12 | Sep 24 | May 12 | Sep 24 |
| 1999 | May 5 | Sep 28 | May 1 | Oct 17 |
| 1998 | May 15 | Oct 5 | Apr 28 | Oct 5 |
| 1997 | Apr 26 | Oct 8 | Apr 26 | Oct 12 |
| 1996 | Apr 29 | Sep 29 | Apr 28 | Oct 21 |
| 1995 | May 24 | Oct 4 | Apr 24 | Oct 4 |
| 1994 | May 9 | Oct 7 | Apr 30 | Oct 8 |
| 1993 | May 9 | Sep 20 | May 9 | Oct 20 |
| 1992 | Apr 20 | Oct 7 | Apr 20 | Oct 7 |
| 1991 | May 4 | Oct 4 | May 4 | Oct 25 |
| 1990 | May 6 | Oct 8 | Apr 19 | Oct 8 |
| 1989 | May 1 | Oct 17 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 |
| 1988 | no data | Sep 30 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 1987 | May 28 | Oct 19 | Apr 25 | Oct 20 |
| 1960 | May 21 | no data | May 20 | no data |
| 1959 | May 22 | Oct 4 | May 6 | Oct 4 |
| 1958 | May 13 | Oct 17 | Apr 15 | Oct 19 |
| 1957 | May 25 | Oct 23 | Apr 28 | Oct 24 |
| 1956 | May 16 | Oct 16 | Apr 29 | Oct 25 |
| 1955 | May 26 | Oct 7 | May 4 | Oct 7 |
| 1954 | May 3 | Oct 27 | May 3 | Oct 27 |
| 1953 | May 16 | Oct 5 | May 13 | Oct 6 |
| 1952 | Apr 29 | Oct 7 | Apr 10 | Oct 7 |
| 1951 | May 4 | Oct 6 | May 3 | Oct 7 |
"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.