Frost history / Altoona 7 Sw, PA
Altoona 7 Sw, PA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00360132, 2001 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,180 ft, 40.419, -78.420. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 28 | Oct 17 |
| Earliest | Apr 7 (2011) | Sep 20 (2020) |
| Latest | May 23 (2015) | Nov 2 (2021) |
| Trend | 1.7 days earlier per decade | 1.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.
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 18 | Oct 10 | Apr 10 | Oct 27 |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 18 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 |
| 2023 | Apr 25 | Oct 31 | Apr 24 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Apr 30 | Oct 9 | Apr 29 | Oct 21 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 2 | Apr 22 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | May 13 | Sep 20 | May 9 | Oct 17 |
| 2019 | Apr 29 | Oct 14 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 20 | Oct 19 | Apr 20 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | May 9 | Oct 17 | Mar 23 | Nov 8 |
| 2016 | Apr 15 | Oct 26 | Apr 13 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | May 23 | Oct 18 | Apr 12 | Oct 19 |
| 2014 | Apr 24 | Oct 27 | Apr 17 | Nov 8 |
| 2013 | May 15 | Oct 21 | May 14 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 30 | Oct 13 | Apr 29 | Oct 13 |
| 2011 | Apr 7 | Oct 23 | Apr 2 | Oct 28 |
| 2010 | Apr 15 | Nov 1 | Mar 28 | Nov 2 |
| 2009 | May 19 | Oct 14 | Apr 14 | Nov 2 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 7 | Apr 16 | Oct 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Oct 29 | Apr 12 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | May 7 | Oct 13 | Apr 26 | Oct 15 |
| 2005 | May 6 | Oct 26 | Mar 22 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Apr 28 | Oct 13 | Apr 6 | Nov 10 |
| 2003 | Apr 25 | Oct 3 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 |
| 2002 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 8 |
"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.