Frost history / Kumbrabow, WV
Kumbrabow, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00464971, 1951 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,235 ft, 38.631, -80.086. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 24 | Sep 24 |
| Earliest | Apr 28 (1998) | Sep 4 (1952) |
| Latest | Jun 18 (1959) | Oct 14 (2018) |
| Trend | 1.1 days earlier per decade | 2.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 17 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 30 and the median first fall date is Oct 7.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Jun 1 | Sep 20 | May 12 | Oct 17 |
| 2019 | no data | Oct 13 | no data | Oct 13 |
| 2018 | no data | Oct 14 | no data | Oct 18 |
| 2012 | no data | Sep 23 | no data | Oct 11 |
| 2003 | Jun 1 | Sep 30 | Apr 24 | Oct 3 |
| 2002 | May 22 | Oct 8 | May 22 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | no data | Sep 30 | no data | Oct 7 |
| 1999 | May 1 | Sep 22 | Apr 25 | Oct 21 |
| 1998 | Apr 28 | no data | Apr 28 | no data |
| 1997 | May 23 | no data | Apr 20 | no data |
| 1959 | Jun 18 | Sep 12 | May 17 | Sep 19 |
| 1958 | Jun 7 | Sep 29 | Apr 26 | Oct 2 |
| 1957 | May 8 | Sep 25 | May 5 | Sep 28 |
| 1956 | Jun 4 | Sep 9 | May 25 | Sep 21 |
| 1955 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Oct 9 |
| 1954 | May 24 | Sep 24 | May 22 | Oct 7 |
| 1953 | Jun 2 | Sep 14 | Apr 22 | Sep 23 |
| 1952 | May 14 | Sep 4 | May 3 | Oct 4 |
| 1951 | May 14 | Sep 8 | Apr 24 | Sep 29 |
"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.