Frost history / Belington, WV
Belington, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00460633, 1964 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,769 ft, 39.023, -79.933. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 12 | Oct 7 |
| Earliest | Apr 17 (1964) | Sep 14 (1964) |
| Latest | Jun 12 (1972) | Oct 25 (2005) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 2.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 32 | 34 |
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | May 11 | Oct 16 | May 11 | Oct 24 |
| 2009 | May 20 | Oct 19 | May 19 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | Apr 18 | Oct 20 | Apr 17 | Oct 20 |
| 2007 | May 8 | Oct 14 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | May 24 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 2005 | May 16 | Oct 25 | May 3 | Oct 31 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Oct 18 |
| 2003 | Apr 28 | no data | Apr 25 | no data |
| 2002 | May 23 | Oct 23 | May 23 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 7 |
| 2000 | May 16 | Sep 30 | Apr 28 | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 22 |
| 1997 | May 23 | Oct 16 | Apr 20 | Oct 21 |
| 1996 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 12 |
| 1994 | May 29 | no data | Apr 23 | no data |
| 1993 | no data | Oct 1 | no data | Oct 1 |
| 1991 | Apr 26 | Sep 27 | Apr 11 | Oct 8 |
| 1990 | Apr 24 | Oct 20 | Apr 24 | Oct 20 |
| 1989 | May 28 | Oct 5 | Apr 25 | Oct 23 |
| 1988 | May 1 | no data | Apr 20 | no data |
| 1987 | Apr 29 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1981 | May 9 | Oct 4 | May 9 | Oct 14 |
| 1980 | May 10 | Oct 14 | May 10 | Oct 14 |
| 1979 | no data | Oct 11 | no data | Oct 15 |
| 1978 | May 12 | Oct 9 | May 4 | Oct 9 |
| 1977 | Jun 9 | Oct 11 | May 10 | Oct 18 |
| 1976 | May 14 | Oct 12 | May 9 | Oct 18 |
| 1975 | Apr 28 | Oct 3 | Apr 18 | Oct 31 |
| 1974 | May 9 | Sep 24 | May 8 | Oct 4 |
| 1973 | May 17 | Oct 17 | May 16 | Nov 2 |
| 1972 | Jun 12 | Oct 10 | Apr 10 | Oct 10 |
| 1971 | May 23 | Oct 8 | May 5 | Nov 5 |
| 1970 | May 8 | Oct 5 | May 8 | Oct 17 |
| 1969 | May 2 | Oct 15 | May 2 | Oct 18 |
| 1968 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Oct 5 |
| 1967 | May 17 | Sep 25 | Apr 29 | Oct 22 |
| 1966 | Jun 3 | Oct 3 | May 12 | Oct 7 |
| 1965 | Apr 17 | Oct 5 | Apr 14 | Oct 5 |
| 1964 | Apr 17 | Sep 14 | Apr 16 | 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.