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Frost history / Langlois #2, OR

Langlois #2, OR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00354721, 1996 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 90 ft, 42.924, -124.453. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 7Nov 25
EarliestJan 24 (1997)Oct 29 (2023)
LatestApr 16 (2022)Dec 18 (1997)
Trend10.9 days later per decade3.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data17, 1 with no freeze15, 2 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 22 and the median first fall date is Dec 8.

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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 302000201020201997: Jan 241998: Mar 62000: Jan 282001: Apr 92002: Mar 182003: Feb 252005: Feb 152006: Mar 122007: Feb 22009: Mar 302010: Mar 92016: Feb 12017: Mar 52018: Apr 32022: Apr 162024: Mar 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 262000201020201997: Dec 181998: Dec 52002: Oct 302003: Oct 312004: Nov 212007: Nov 212008: Dec 152015: Nov 252018: Dec 32019: Nov 272021: Dec 142022: Nov 42023: Oct 29

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
2024Mar 8no datanoneno data
2023no dataOct 29no datanone
2022Apr 16Nov 4Feb 25none
2021no dataDec 14no datanone
2019no dataNov 27no dataNov 29
2018Apr 3Dec 3Feb 23none
2017Mar 5no dataJan 13no data
2016Feb 1no datanoneno data
2015no dataNov 25no datanone
2010Mar 9no datanoneno data
2009Mar 30no datanoneno data
2008no dataDec 15no dataDec 16
2007Feb 2Nov 21Jan 14none
2006Mar 12no dataFeb 20no data
2005Feb 15no dataJan 4no data
2004noneNov 21nonenone
2003Feb 25Oct 31noneNov 1
2002Mar 18Oct 30Jan 29none
2001Apr 9nonenonenone
2000Jan 28no datanoneno data
1998Mar 6Dec 5noneDec 19
1997Jan 24Dec 18Jan 14none
1996no datanoneno datanone

"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.