Last Frost Day

Frost history / Shawnee Sp, PA

Shawnee Sp, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00368011, 1992 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,275 ft, 40.033, -78.637. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 10Oct 7
EarliestApr 25 (2003)Sep 24 (1992)
LatestMay 31 (2001)Oct 29 (2007)
Trend6.4 days earlier per decade8.1 days later per decade
Years with data1818

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 28 and the median first fall date is Oct 18.

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.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14200020101993: May 211994: May 281995: May 81996: May 151997: May 231998: Apr 291999: Apr 292000: May 162001: May 312002: May 232003: Apr 252004: May 42005: May 92006: May 72007: May 72008: May 12009: May 182010: May 11

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11200020101992: Sep 241993: Oct 11994: Oct 31995: Oct 171996: Oct 41997: Oct 21998: Oct 31999: Oct 72000: Oct 92001: Oct 72002: Oct 82003: Oct 32004: Oct 62005: Oct 262006: Oct 12007: Oct 292008: Oct 72009: Oct 12

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
2010May 11no dataMay 10no data
2009May 18Oct 12May 18Oct 19
2008May 1Oct 7Apr 17Oct 19
2007May 7Oct 29Apr 14Oct 29
2006May 7Oct 1Apr 27Oct 13
2005May 9Oct 26May 5Oct 31
2004May 4Oct 6Apr 16Oct 18
2003Apr 25Oct 3Apr 2Oct 3
2002May 23Oct 8May 22Oct 18
2001May 31Oct 7Apr 29Oct 8
2000May 16Oct 9Apr 13Oct 29
1999Apr 29Oct 7Apr 25Oct 27
1998Apr 29Oct 3Apr 28Nov 5
1997May 23Oct 2May 8Oct 17
1996May 15Oct 4May 15Oct 4
1995May 8Oct 17May 1Oct 18
1994May 28Oct 3May 28Oct 4
1993May 21Oct 1Apr 28Oct 1
1992no dataSep 24no dataOct 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.