Frost history / Raymond 2 S, WA
Raymond 2 S, WA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00456914, 1980 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 30 ft, 46.653, -123.730. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 27 | Oct 13 |
| Earliest | Mar 27 (1994) | Sep 22 (2000) |
| Latest | May 18 (2012) | Nov 10 (2014) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 2.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 41 | 40 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 29 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | May 6 | Oct 14 | Feb 15 | Dec 30 |
| 2024 | May 1 | Nov 7 | Mar 8 | Dec 1 |
| 2023 | Apr 20 | Oct 26 | Apr 6 | Oct 28 |
| 2022 | May 11 | Oct 24 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 |
| 2021 | Apr 16 | Oct 12 | Apr 15 | Dec 27 |
| 2020 | May 1 | Oct 22 | Apr 13 | Oct 24 |
| 2019 | May 1 | Sep 30 | Mar 28 | Oct 9 |
| 2018 | Apr 24 | Oct 13 | Mar 20 | Nov 8 |
| 2017 | Apr 14 | Oct 4 | Feb 26 | Oct 14 |
| 2016 | Apr 25 | Oct 11 | Feb 22 | Dec 5 |
| 2015 | Apr 15 | Nov 9 | Mar 5 | Nov 20 |
| 2014 | Apr 13 | Nov 10 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 |
| 2013 | May 2 | Oct 28 | May 1 | Oct 28 |
| 2012 | May 18 | Oct 2 | Apr 6 | Oct 5 |
| 2011 | May 18 | Oct 25 | Apr 19 | Nov 1 |
| 2010 | May 8 | Oct 15 | Apr 10 | Nov 20 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 2008 | Apr 27 | Oct 9 | Apr 3 | Nov 23 |
| 2007 | May 13 | Oct 24 | Apr 4 | Oct 27 |
| 2006 | May 9 | Oct 9 | Mar 19 | Oct 29 |
| 2001 | May 6 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 2000 | Apr 23 | Sep 22 | Mar 6 | Nov 10 |
| 1999 | May 9 | Sep 27 | Apr 13 | Nov 4 |
| 1998 | Apr 20 | Oct 18 | Mar 29 | Dec 17 |
| 1997 | May 2 | Oct 20 | Apr 12 | Dec 5 |
| 1996 | May 9 | Oct 16 | Mar 28 | Oct 31 |
| 1995 | Apr 22 | Oct 29 | Mar 27 | Oct 30 |
| 1994 | Mar 27 | Oct 3 | Mar 25 | Nov 5 |
| 1993 | Apr 19 | Nov 6 | Mar 27 | Nov 8 |
| 1992 | Apr 23 | Oct 6 | Mar 29 | Oct 15 |
| 1991 | Apr 12 | Oct 28 | Mar 27 | Oct 30 |
| 1990 | Apr 9 | Oct 11 | Mar 26 | Dec 19 |
| 1989 | May 13 | Oct 3 | Mar 4 | Nov 1 |
| 1988 | Apr 27 | Oct 27 | Mar 19 | Dec 4 |
| 1987 | Apr 25 | Oct 10 | Mar 29 | Nov 17 |
| 1986 | May 15 | Oct 12 | Apr 24 | Nov 10 |
| 1985 | May 15 | Sep 29 | May 12 | Oct 8 |
| 1984 | May 6 | Oct 16 | Mar 3 | Nov 22 |
| 1983 | Apr 24 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 1982 | Apr 24 | Sep 28 | Apr 24 | Oct 18 |
| 1981 | Apr 25 | Oct 13 | Apr 13 | Oct 21 |
| 1980 | May 3 | Oct 9 | Apr 3 | Oct 22 |
"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.