Frost history / Oceanside, NY
Oceanside, NY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00306138, 1995 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 12 ft, 40.633, -73.627. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 6 | Nov 10 |
| Earliest | Mar 22 (2006) | Oct 23 (1997) |
| Latest | Apr 14 (2009) | Dec 3 (2006) |
| Trend | 0.6 days earlier per decade | 8.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 18.
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 | Apr 14 | Nov 7 | Mar 25 | Dec 11 |
| 2008 | Apr 4 | Nov 19 | Mar 31 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 12 | Nov 8 | Mar 22 | Nov 24 |
| 2006 | Mar 22 | Dec 3 | Mar 22 | Dec 6 |
| 2005 | Mar 23 | Nov 19 | Mar 11 | Nov 24 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 2003 | Apr 2 | Nov 9 | Mar 15 | Nov 9 |
| 2002 | Apr 8 | Nov 19 | Mar 24 | Nov 28 |
| 2001 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 2000 | no data | Nov 20 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1999 | Mar 27 | Nov 8 | Mar 13 | Nov 18 |
| 1998 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 26 | no data |
| 1997 | Apr 12 | Oct 23 | Apr 11 | Nov 18 |
| 1996 | Apr 10 | Nov 11 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 |
| 1995 | Apr 7 | Nov 6 | Apr 6 | Nov 10 |
"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.