Frost history / Rector 3 Ssw, PA
Rector 3 Ssw, PA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00367338, 1980 to 2006, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,330 ft, 40.167, -79.267. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 21 | Sep 27 |
| Earliest | Apr 23 (1991) | Aug 29 (1982) |
| Latest | Jun 12 (1980) | Oct 8 (2002) |
| Trend | 4.4 days earlier per decade | 5.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 26 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 4 and the median first fall date is Oct 9.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | May 24 | no data | May 23 | no data |
| 2005 | May 8 | Sep 30 | May 6 | Oct 30 |
| 2004 | May 7 | Oct 5 | Apr 28 | Oct 6 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 3 |
| 2002 | May 23 | Oct 8 | May 22 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Jun 1 | Sep 30 | Apr 29 | Oct 8 |
| 2000 | May 16 | Oct 8 | Apr 27 | Oct 29 |
| 1999 | May 3 | Sep 18 | Apr 27 | Sep 22 |
| 1998 | Apr 29 | Sep 25 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 |
| 1997 | May 23 | Oct 2 | May 8 | Oct 15 |
| 1996 | May 31 | Oct 4 | May 14 | Oct 4 |
| 1995 | no data | Sep 11 | no data | Oct 17 |
| 1994 | no data | Sep 12 | no data | Oct 4 |
| 1993 | May 22 | Oct 1 | Apr 28 | Oct 1 |
| 1992 | May 29 | Sep 24 | May 28 | Sep 24 |
| 1991 | Apr 23 | Sep 20 | Apr 18 | Sep 27 |
| 1990 | May 12 | Sep 18 | Apr 19 | Oct 20 |
| 1989 | May 4 | Sep 27 | Apr 24 | Oct 10 |
| 1988 | Jun 10 | Oct 8 | Apr 26 | Oct 13 |
| 1987 | May 16 | Oct 5 | May 1 | Oct 9 |
| 1986 | Jun 3 | Sep 17 | May 4 | Oct 19 |
| 1985 | May 9 | Sep 14 | May 4 | Oct 17 |
| 1984 | May 17 | Sep 17 | May 17 | Nov 3 |
| 1983 | May 28 | Sep 23 | May 12 | Sep 24 |
| 1982 | no data | Aug 29 | no data | Oct 18 |
| 1981 | May 21 | Sep 29 | May 8 | Oct 4 |
| 1980 | Jun 12 | Sep 27 | May 10 | Oct 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.