Clendenin, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00461723, 1986 to 2005, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 700 ft, 38.493, -81.348. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 30	Oct 23
Earliest	Apr 13 (1998)	Sep 28 (1989)
Latest	May 23 (2002)	Nov 6 (2004)
Trend	0.7 days earlier per decade	10.9 days later per decade
Years with data	18	18

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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)

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
2005	May 4	Oct 29	Mar 22	Nov 11
2004	Apr 29	Nov 6	Apr 7	Nov 9
2002	May 23	Nov 2	Apr 8	Nov 2
2001	Apr 30	Oct 8	Apr 20	Oct 28
2000	Apr 28	Oct 8	Apr 1	Oct 30
1999	Apr 15	Oct 25	Mar 30	Nov 4
1998	Apr 13	Oct 23	Mar 25	Nov 5
1997	Apr 20	Oct 22	Apr 16	Oct 23
1996	May 15	Nov 2	Apr 12	Nov 3
1995	Apr 27	Oct 27	Apr 16	Nov 4
1994	May 19	Oct 27	Apr 9	Oct 28
1993	Apr 28	Oct 23	Mar 20	Nov 2
1992	Apr 29	no data	Apr 7	no data
1991	May 8	Oct 7	Apr 24	Nov 3
1990	Apr 20	Oct 20	Apr 20	Oct 20
1989	May 9	Sep 28	Apr 21	Oct 5
1988	no data	Oct 6	no data	Oct 6
1987	Apr 30	Oct 5	Apr 1	Oct 14
1986	May 5	Oct 19	May 4	Nov 14

"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.