Last Frost Day

Frost history / Acmetonia Lock 3, PA

Acmetonia Lock 3, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00360022, 2011 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 748 ft, 40.536, -79.815. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 26Oct 28
EarliestMar 28 (2012)Oct 13 (2012)
LatestMay 15 (2013)Nov 12 (2016)
Trend11.9 days later per decade4.5 days later per decade
Years with data1211

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 3020202011: Apr 72012: Mar 282013: May 152014: Apr 252016: Apr 142017: May 92018: May 12019: Apr 302020: May 102021: Apr 272023: Apr 262024: Apr 23

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202011: Oct 282012: Oct 132013: Oct 282015: Oct 192016: Nov 122017: Nov 12018: Oct 192019: Oct 202020: Oct 172021: Nov 52023: Oct 31

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
2024Apr 23no dataMar 26no data
2023Apr 26Oct 31Apr 10Nov 2
2021Apr 27Nov 5Apr 4Nov 5
2020May 10Oct 17Apr 18Nov 14
2019Apr 30Oct 20Apr 3Nov 2
2018May 1Oct 19Apr 11Nov 11
2017May 9Nov 1Mar 24Nov 11
2016Apr 14Nov 12Apr 11Nov 12
2015no dataOct 19no dataNov 23
2014Apr 25no dataApr 17no data
2013May 15Oct 28Apr 7Nov 4
2012Mar 28Oct 13Mar 28Nov 6
2011Apr 7Oct 28Apr 7Nov 6

"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.