Frost history / Grays Rvr Hatchery, WA
Grays Rvr Hatchery, WA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00453333, 1962 to 2008, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 100 ft, 46.387, -123.560. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 9 | Oct 17 |
| Earliest | Mar 25 (1979) | Sep 12 (1970) |
| Latest | Jun 5 (1976) | Nov 23 (1965) |
| Trend | 0.6 days earlier per decade | 0.6 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 45 | 46 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Apr 26 | Oct 8 | Apr 3 | Oct 10 |
| 2007 | May 10 | Oct 4 | Apr 2 | Oct 30 |
| 2006 | May 9 | Oct 29 | Mar 19 | Oct 29 |
| 2005 | Apr 19 | Oct 26 | Feb 23 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Apr 23 | Nov 2 | Mar 31 | Nov 3 |
| 2003 | May 18 | Oct 30 | Mar 23 | Oct 30 |
| 2002 | May 15 | Sep 30 | Apr 23 | Oct 29 |
| 2001 | May 9 | no data | Apr 13 | no data |
| 2000 | Apr 23 | Sep 22 | Mar 4 | Nov 9 |
| 1999 | May 9 | Sep 26 | Mar 31 | Dec 24 |
| 1998 | May 28 | Oct 28 | Mar 29 | Dec 17 |
| 1997 | Apr 12 | Oct 20 | Apr 5 | Dec 25 |
| 1996 | May 9 | Oct 16 | Mar 28 | Nov 23 |
| 1995 | Apr 19 | Oct 29 | Mar 8 | Oct 31 |
| 1994 | Apr 15 | Oct 16 | Mar 6 | Nov 5 |
| 1993 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 1992 | May 21 | Oct 14 | Jan 18 | Oct 15 |
| 1991 | Jun 4 | Oct 17 | Mar 27 | Oct 28 |
| 1990 | May 9 | Oct 11 | Mar 13 | Dec 19 |
| 1989 | May 14 | Oct 3 | Mar 3 | Nov 2 |
| 1988 | May 4 | Oct 26 | Mar 14 | Dec 14 |
| 1987 | Apr 25 | Oct 27 | Mar 28 | Nov 27 |
| 1986 | May 14 | Nov 9 | Apr 10 | Nov 9 |
| 1985 | May 11 | Sep 28 | Mar 15 | Oct 7 |
| 1984 | May 4 | Sep 24 | Apr 26 | Nov 21 |
| 1983 | Apr 25 | Sep 19 | Feb 5 | Nov 28 |
| 1982 | May 23 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Nov 9 |
| 1981 | Apr 14 | Oct 12 | Apr 13 | Nov 28 |
| 1980 | Apr 23 | Oct 22 | Feb 22 | Nov 12 |
| 1979 | Mar 25 | Nov 1 | Feb 15 | Nov 27 |
| 1978 | May 6 | Oct 25 | Mar 16 | Nov 10 |
| 1977 | May 27 | Oct 3 | Apr 19 | Nov 8 |
| 1976 | Jun 5 | Oct 19 | Apr 27 | Oct 20 |
| 1975 | May 25 | Oct 25 | Apr 30 | Nov 18 |
| 1974 | May 17 | Oct 5 | Mar 9 | Dec 23 |
| 1973 | May 26 | Oct 3 | Mar 23 | Nov 2 |
| 1972 | Apr 30 | Sep 27 | Mar 28 | Oct 29 |
| 1971 | Apr 20 | Oct 15 | Mar 20 | Oct 16 |
| 1970 | Apr 2 | Sep 12 | Mar 9 | Oct 25 |
| 1969 | May 3 | Oct 12 | Apr 12 | Oct 12 |
| 1968 | May 1 | Oct 2 | Apr 17 | Dec 18 |
| 1967 | May 25 | Nov 3 | Mar 13 | Nov 21 |
| 1966 | May 27 | Sep 27 | Mar 22 | none |
| 1965 | May 8 | Nov 23 | Mar 24 | Nov 25 |
| 1964 | May 25 | Oct 26 | Apr 17 | Nov 16 |
| 1963 | Apr 2 | Oct 19 | Mar 17 | Nov 29 |
| 1962 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Dec 24 |
"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.