Frost history / Wantagh Cedar Creek, NY
Wantagh Cedar Creek, NY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00308946, 1976 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 10 ft, 40.655, -73.505. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 6 | Nov 8 |
| Earliest | Mar 6 (2010) | Oct 10 (1979) |
| Latest | Apr 23 (1994) | Dec 23 (2001) |
| Trend | 7.1 days earlier per decade | 5.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 26 | 30 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Dec 12 |
| 2010 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 | Feb 14 | Nov 29 |
| 2009 | Mar 26 | Nov 7 | Mar 26 | Dec 11 |
| 2008 | Apr 3 | Nov 19 | Apr 3 | Nov 21 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 | Apr 7 | Nov 24 |
| 2006 | Mar 22 | Nov 5 | Mar 21 | Dec 5 |
| 2005 | Mar 20 | Oct 27 | Mar 13 | Oct 28 |
| 2004 | Mar 23 | Nov 10 | Mar 23 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Nov 10 | Mar 14 | Dec 3 |
| 2002 | Apr 7 | Nov 28 | Mar 22 | Dec 3 |
| 2001 | no data | Dec 23 | no data | none |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Nov 20 | Mar 18 | Nov 24 |
| 1999 | Mar 21 | Nov 18 | Mar 9 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 25 | Nov 5 | Mar 17 | Dec 22 |
| 1997 | Apr 15 | Oct 23 | Mar 24 | Nov 18 |
| 1996 | Apr 9 | Nov 12 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 |
| 1995 | Apr 6 | Nov 6 | Apr 6 | Nov 9 |
| 1994 | Apr 23 | Nov 12 | Mar 21 | Nov 23 |
| 1993 | Apr 5 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 1992 | Apr 13 | no data | Mar 25 | no data |
| 1991 | no data | Oct 21 | no data | Nov 5 |
| 1990 | Apr 19 | Nov 9 | Apr 13 | Nov 9 |
| 1988 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Dec 9 |
| 1987 | Apr 2 | Nov 11 | Mar 11 | Nov 21 |
| 1986 | Mar 25 | Nov 13 | Mar 22 | Nov 13 |
| 1984 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1983 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Dec 8 |
| 1982 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Nov 27 |
| 1981 | Apr 22 | Nov 12 | Apr 16 | Nov 13 |
| 1980 | Apr 18 | no data | Apr 17 | no data |
| 1979 | Apr 21 | Oct 10 | Apr 8 | Nov 16 |
| 1978 | Apr 9 | Oct 16 | Apr 3 | Nov 26 |
| 1977 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Oct 24 |
| 1976 | Apr 12 | no data | Apr 12 | no data |
"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.