Bear Gap, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00360457, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,015 ft, 40.821, -76.498. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 30	Oct 18
Earliest	Apr 22 (2011)	Sep 2 (2017)
Latest	May 19 (2009)	Nov 3 (2021)
Trend	3.6 days earlier per decade	0.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data	15	15

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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
2024	Apr 26	Oct 11	Mar 25	Oct 25
2023	no data	Oct 31	no data	Nov 2
2022	Apr 30	no data	Apr 30	no data
2021	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 3
2020	May 13	Sep 19	May 9	Nov 18
2019	May 16	no data	Apr 3	no data
2018	Apr 24	Oct 18	Apr 24	Nov 11
2017	Apr 23	Sep 2	Apr 9	Nov 8
2016	Apr 24	Oct 31	Apr 13	Oct 31
2015	Apr 26	Oct 18	Apr 25	Oct 19
2014	Apr 28	Oct 20	Apr 20	Nov 8
2013	May 14	Oct 23	May 14	Oct 28
2012	May 1	Oct 13	Apr 6	Oct 13
2011	Apr 22	Oct 28	Mar 30	Oct 30
2010	May 11	Oct 20	Mar 27	Nov 2
2009	May 19	Oct 14	Apr 13	Oct 19
2008	Apr 30	Oct 7	Apr 17	Oct 19

"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.