Frost history / Grayland, WA
Grayland, WA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00453320, 1953 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 10 ft, 46.801, -124.086. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 14 | Oct 31 |
| Earliest | Mar 14 (1969) | Oct 9 (2008) |
| Latest | Jul 3 (1976) | Dec 4 (1998) |
| Trend | 2.9 days earlier per decade | 2.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 47 | 47 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 28.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Apr 9 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2010 | Apr 14 | Nov 21 | Feb 22 | Nov 22 |
| 2009 | Apr 16 | Dec 1 | Mar 14 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Apr 20 | Oct 9 | Apr 2 | Dec 15 |
| 2007 | Apr 20 | Oct 31 | Feb 2 | Nov 20 |
| 2006 | Mar 19 | Oct 30 | Mar 12 | Oct 31 |
| 2005 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Dec 9 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 2002 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2001 | Apr 14 | Nov 9 | Feb 28 | none |
| 2000 | Mar 22 | Nov 9 | Feb 19 | Nov 16 |
| 1999 | Apr 6 | Dec 2 | Mar 7 | Dec 28 |
| 1998 | Mar 29 | Dec 4 | Feb 27 | Dec 18 |
| 1997 | May 2 | Nov 27 | Feb 28 | Dec 26 |
| 1996 | Mar 28 | no data | Mar 25 | no data |
| 1995 | Mar 26 | Nov 1 | Mar 3 | Dec 7 |
| 1994 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 | Feb 9 | Nov 18 |
| 1993 | Apr 4 | Nov 7 | Feb 28 | Nov 12 |
| 1992 | Mar 18 | Oct 15 | Jan 7 | Dec 3 |
| 1991 | Apr 11 | Oct 28 | Jan 30 | Nov 30 |
| 1990 | Mar 26 | Nov 19 | Mar 12 | Dec 19 |
| 1989 | Mar 22 | Oct 28 | Mar 2 | Dec 18 |
| 1988 | Apr 24 | Nov 13 | Feb 1 | Dec 14 |
| 1987 | Mar 28 | Nov 27 | Feb 25 | Dec 12 |
| 1986 | Apr 29 | Nov 14 | Feb 20 | Dec 8 |
| 1985 | May 12 | Oct 29 | Mar 13 | Nov 11 |
| 1984 | Apr 27 | Oct 17 | Mar 3 | Dec 6 |
| 1983 | Apr 13 | Oct 14 | none | Dec 16 |
| 1982 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 1980 | Apr 2 | no data | Feb 15 | no data |
| 1978 | Mar 15 | no data | Feb 11 | no data |
| 1977 | May 12 | Oct 18 | Mar 16 | Nov 8 |
| 1976 | Jul 3 | no data | Mar 8 | no data |
| 1975 | no data | Nov 28 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 1972 | Apr 22 | no data | Feb 4 | no data |
| 1971 | Apr 4 | Oct 16 | Mar 17 | Oct 28 |
| 1969 | Mar 14 | Oct 13 | Mar 13 | Nov 30 |
| 1968 | Apr 21 | Nov 4 | Mar 9 | Dec 19 |
| 1967 | May 10 | Nov 19 | Mar 4 | Dec 13 |
| 1966 | Apr 19 | Nov 8 | Mar 3 | none |
| 1965 | May 6 | Nov 23 | Mar 24 | Nov 25 |
| 1964 | Apr 30 | Oct 23 | Apr 3 | Oct 26 |
| 1963 | Apr 2 | Oct 19 | Apr 1 | Nov 20 |
| 1962 | Apr 11 | Oct 16 | Mar 28 | Dec 23 |
| 1961 | Apr 20 | Oct 21 | Mar 4 | Nov 15 |
| 1960 | Apr 22 | Oct 11 | Mar 4 | Dec 6 |
| 1959 | Apr 19 | Oct 29 | Feb 2 | Nov 13 |
| 1958 | Apr 4 | Nov 15 | Mar 11 | Nov 15 |
| 1957 | Apr 8 | Oct 20 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 1956 | Apr 17 | Oct 28 | Mar 16 | Nov 19 |
| 1955 | Apr 25 | Nov 11 | Apr 25 | Nov 12 |
| 1954 | May 1 | Oct 23 | May 1 | Nov 29 |
| 1953 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | none |
"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.