Frost history / Rhinebeck 4SE, NY
Rhinebeck 4SE, NY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00307035, 1990 to 2012, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 301 ft, 41.885, -73.869. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 30 | Sep 22 |
| Earliest | May 11 (1991) | Sep 3 (1994) |
| Latest | Jun 12 (1994) | Oct 4 (2008) |
| Trend | 6.7 days earlier per decade | 4.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 11 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | May 19 | no data | May 1 | no data |
| 2011 | no data | Sep 20 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 2010 | May 11 | Sep 22 | May 11 | Oct 11 |
| 2009 | no data | Sep 26 | no data | Sep 27 |
| 2008 | May 29 | Oct 4 | May 2 | Oct 4 |
| 2007 | May 14 | Sep 17 | May 14 | Oct 28 |
| 2005 | May 19 | no data | May 13 | no data |
| 2004 | May 30 | Oct 4 | Apr 12 | Oct 4 |
| 1999 | Jun 4 | no data | May 14 | no data |
| 1998 | Jun 5 | no data | May 14 | no data |
| 1996 | May 31 | Oct 4 | May 14 | Oct 4 |
| 1994 | Jun 12 | Sep 3 | May 29 | Sep 11 |
| 1993 | Jun 2 | Sep 12 | Apr 28 | Sep 20 |
| 1992 | no data | Sep 25 | no data | Sep 25 |
| 1991 | May 11 | no data | Apr 13 | no data |
| 1990 | no data | Sep 18 | no data | Sep 18 |
"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.