Frost history / Waverly, NY
Waverly, NY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00309047, 1989 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 845 ft, 42.002, -76.525. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 8 | Oct 10 |
| Earliest | Apr 19 (2025) | Sep 12 (1991) |
| Latest | May 28 (1994) | Nov 4 (2021) |
| Trend | 2.3 days earlier per decade | 7.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 25 and the median first fall date is Oct 25.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 19 | Oct 10 | Apr 11 | Oct 26 |
| 2024 | Apr 27 | Oct 18 | Apr 27 | Oct 27 |
| 2023 | May 19 | Oct 31 | May 18 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | May 8 | Oct 18 | May 1 | Oct 29 |
| 2021 | May 14 | Nov 4 | Apr 24 | Nov 4 |
| 2019 | Apr 30 | Oct 6 | Apr 30 | Oct 25 |
| 2018 | May 2 | no data | Apr 24 | no data |
| 2017 | May 4 | Oct 15 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 |
| 2016 | May 10 | Oct 11 | Apr 15 | Nov 7 |
| 2015 | Apr 26 | Oct 18 | Apr 25 | Oct 18 |
| 2011 | Apr 23 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 2010 | Apr 24 | Oct 23 | Apr 12 | Nov 2 |
| 2009 | May 20 | Oct 12 | Apr 14 | Nov 7 |
| 2005 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 2003 | Apr 26 | Oct 3 | Apr 15 | Oct 24 |
| 2002 | May 23 | Oct 15 | May 21 | Oct 24 |
| 2001 | May 15 | Oct 8 | Apr 30 | Oct 9 |
| 2000 | May 16 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 1999 | Apr 30 | Oct 7 | Apr 26 | Oct 7 |
| 1998 | Apr 30 | Oct 2 | Apr 12 | Oct 31 |
| 1997 | May 18 | Oct 2 | May 8 | Oct 17 |
| 1996 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 4 |
| 1995 | May 9 | Oct 17 | May 8 | Oct 17 |
| 1994 | May 28 | Oct 3 | Apr 25 | Oct 12 |
| 1993 | Apr 29 | Sep 20 | Apr 28 | Oct 11 |
| 1992 | May 8 | Sep 24 | Apr 16 | Oct 6 |
| 1991 | May 4 | Sep 12 | Apr 5 | Sep 30 |
| 1990 | May 12 | Sep 18 | May 12 | Oct 27 |
| 1989 | May 8 | Sep 24 | Apr 28 | Oct 9 |
"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.