Last Frost Day

Frost history / Cobleskill 2 Ese, NY

Cobleskill 2 Ese, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00301595, 1988 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,169 ft, 42.667, -74.442. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 5Oct 7
EarliestApr 17 (1991)Sep 16 (2001)
LatestJun 4 (1998)Oct 28 (2011)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)4.0 days later per decade
Years with data2625

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 26 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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 141990200020101989: Apr 271990: Apr 191991: Apr 171992: May 251993: Apr 281994: Apr 231995: May 71996: May 161997: May 161998: Jun 41999: Apr 282000: May 52001: May 62002: May 202003: May 42004: May 52006: May 72009: May 192010: May 132011: Apr 232012: Apr 302013: May 152014: Apr 262015: May 232018: Apr 242019: Apr 24

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 111990200020101988: Oct 71989: Sep 251990: Oct 211992: Sep 241993: Sep 201994: Oct 111996: Oct 41997: Oct 121998: Oct 31999: Oct 62001: Sep 162002: Oct 52003: Oct 72005: Oct 212006: Sep 192008: Oct 72009: Oct 122011: Oct 282012: Oct 132013: Oct 242014: Oct 122015: Oct 172017: Sep 292018: Oct 182019: Oct 5

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2019Apr 24Oct 5Apr 12Nov 8
2018Apr 24Oct 18Apr 23Oct 18
2017no dataSep 29no dataOct 18
2015May 23Oct 17Apr 27Oct 17
2014Apr 26Oct 12Apr 26Oct 31
2013May 15Oct 24May 15Oct 29
2012Apr 30Oct 13Apr 30Oct 13
2011Apr 23Oct 28Apr 23Nov 5
2010May 13no dataMay 11no data
2009May 19Oct 12Apr 16Oct 12
2008no dataOct 7no dataOct 18
2006May 7Sep 19Apr 29Oct 16
2005no dataOct 21no dataOct 28
2004May 5no dataApr 16no data
2003May 4Oct 7Apr 18Oct 20
2002May 20Oct 5May 20Oct 5
2001May 6Sep 16Apr 20Oct 9
2000May 5no dataApr 29no data
1999Apr 28Oct 6Apr 25Oct 7
1998Jun 4Oct 3Jun 4Nov 4
1997May 16Oct 12May 16Oct 17
1996May 16Oct 4Apr 28Oct 4
1995May 7no dataApr 24no data
1994Apr 23Oct 11Apr 9Oct 12
1993Apr 28Sep 20Apr 27Oct 1
1992May 25Sep 24Apr 16Oct 6
1991Apr 17no dataApr 14no data
1990Apr 19Oct 21Apr 19Oct 27
1989Apr 27Sep 25Apr 27Oct 10
1988no dataOct 7no dataOct 21

"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.