Frost history / Little Falls City Rsch, NY
Little Falls City Rsch, NY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00304791, 1951 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 893 ft, 43.060, -74.869. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 16 | Sep 30 |
| Earliest | Apr 28 (1975) | Sep 13 (1964) |
| Latest | Jun 5 (1964) | Nov 4 (1971) |
| Trend | 1.4 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 28 | 29 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 2 and the median first fall date is Oct 8.
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 19 | no data | Apr 18 | no data |
| 2008 | May 3 | no data | May 1 | no data |
| 2006 | Apr 30 | Sep 30 | Apr 27 | Sep 30 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 1991 | May 5 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 1981 | May 19 | Sep 29 | May 7 | Sep 30 |
| 1976 | May 20 | Sep 25 | Apr 13 | Oct 11 |
| 1975 | Apr 28 | Sep 15 | Apr 28 | Oct 3 |
| 1974 | May 7 | Sep 23 | May 5 | Sep 23 |
| 1973 | no data | Sep 20 | no data | Nov 5 |
| 1972 | no data | Sep 20 | no data | Oct 1 |
| 1971 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 5 |
| 1970 | May 8 | Oct 17 | May 7 | Oct 17 |
| 1969 | May 27 | Oct 15 | Apr 20 | Oct 22 |
| 1968 | May 27 | Oct 5 | May 7 | Oct 27 |
| 1967 | May 23 | Oct 7 | May 23 | Oct 7 |
| 1966 | May 31 | Sep 16 | May 11 | Oct 18 |
| 1965 | May 14 | Sep 28 | Apr 25 | Sep 28 |
| 1964 | Jun 5 | Sep 13 | Apr 16 | Oct 6 |
| 1963 | May 24 | Sep 23 | May 24 | Sep 24 |
| 1962 | May 12 | Sep 21 | May 10 | Oct 25 |
| 1961 | May 31 | Oct 5 | Apr 20 | Oct 5 |
| 1960 | May 2 | Oct 2 | May 2 | Oct 21 |
| 1959 | May 18 | Sep 16 | May 17 | Sep 16 |
| 1958 | May 10 | Oct 2 | May 10 | Oct 6 |
| 1957 | May 17 | Sep 27 | May 17 | Sep 27 |
| 1956 | May 25 | Sep 21 | May 24 | Oct 11 |
| 1955 | May 17 | Oct 22 | Apr 9 | Oct 22 |
| 1954 | May 11 | Oct 7 | May 5 | Oct 7 |
| 1953 | Apr 30 | Oct 8 | Apr 22 | Oct 8 |
| 1952 | May 5 | Oct 8 | Apr 12 | Oct 20 |
| 1951 | May 14 | Sep 30 | Apr 21 | Oct 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.