Last Frost Day

Frost history / Platte Clove, NY

Platte Clove, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00306649, 1999 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,032 ft, 42.139, -74.091. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 14Oct 9
EarliestApr 24 (2011)Sep 27 (2000)
LatestMay 24 (2015)Oct 29 (2007)
Trend6.0 days later per decade8.0 days later per decade
Years with data1514

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 30 and the median first fall date is Oct 19.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30200020101999: Apr 302000: May 12001: May 72002: May 232003: May 52004: May 72006: May 222007: May 152009: May 202010: May 142011: Apr 242012: May 12013: May 152014: May 192015: May 24

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11200020101999: Oct 62000: Sep 272002: Oct 152003: Oct 32004: Oct 62007: Oct 292008: Oct 42009: Oct 122010: Oct 32011: Oct 282012: Oct 132013: Oct 232014: Oct 52015: Oct 17

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
2015May 24Oct 17May 24Oct 18
2014May 19Oct 5Apr 26Oct 20
2013May 15Oct 23May 15Oct 24
2012May 1Oct 13May 1Oct 13
2011Apr 24Oct 28Apr 23Oct 28
2010May 14Oct 3May 12Oct 22
2009May 20Oct 12Apr 17Oct 13
2008no dataOct 4no dataOct 19
2007May 15Oct 29Apr 19Oct 29
2006May 22no dataApr 30no data
2004May 7Oct 6Apr 29Oct 28
2003May 5Oct 3May 4Oct 3
2002May 23Oct 15May 22Oct 15
2001May 7no dataApr 30no data
2000May 1Sep 27Apr 19Sep 29
1999Apr 30Oct 6Apr 26Oct 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.