Poughkeepsie, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00306820, 1994 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 251 ft, 41.727, -73.920. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 29	Oct 19
Earliest	Apr 10 (2006)	Sep 30 (2000)
Latest	May 20 (2002)	Nov 8 (2017)
Trend	7.7 days earlier per decade	6.2 days later per decade
Years with data	19	19

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.

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
2019	Apr 29	no data	Apr 3	no data
2018	Apr 23	Oct 19	Apr 21	Nov 12
2017	Apr 10	Nov 8	Mar 24	Nov 9
2016	Apr 14	Oct 26	Apr 11	Nov 1
2015	Apr 25	Oct 18	Apr 3	Oct 18
2014	Apr 19	Oct 20	Apr 18	Nov 15
2013	Apr 22	Nov 4	Apr 5	Nov 4
2012	Apr 29	Oct 13	Apr 6	Oct 13
2011	Apr 23	no data	Mar 31	no data
2008	May 2	no data	Apr 15	no data
2007	Apr 11	Oct 31	Apr 11	Nov 8
2006	Apr 10	Oct 14	Mar 29	Oct 27
2005	May 5	Oct 28	Mar 26	Nov 12
2004	no data	Nov 4	no data	Nov 9
2002	May 20	Oct 15	Apr 28	Oct 23
2001	no data	Oct 9	no data	Oct 9
2000	Apr 30	Sep 30	Apr 15	Oct 9
1999	Apr 30	Oct 9	Apr 26	Oct 9
1998	Apr 30	Oct 22	Apr 12	Nov 4
1997	no data	Oct 3	no data	Oct 23
1996	May 15	no data	Apr 10	no data
1995	no data	Nov 5	no data	Nov 6
1994	May 4	Oct 4	Apr 23	Nov 12

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.