Frost history / Marlinton, WV
Marlinton, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00465672, 1986 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,150 ft, 38.218, -80.091. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 15 | Oct 3 |
| Earliest | Apr 24 (1991) | Sep 16 (2011) |
| Latest | Jun 9 (2000) | Oct 20 (2013) |
| Trend | 2.1 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 27 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 30 and the median first fall date is Oct 13.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | May 20 | Oct 5 | Apr 24 | Oct 20 |
| 2013 | May 27 | Oct 20 | May 15 | Oct 21 |
| 2012 | May 12 | Sep 24 | Apr 26 | Oct 11 |
| 2011 | May 7 | Sep 16 | Apr 7 | Oct 23 |
| 2010 | May 11 | Oct 8 | May 11 | Oct 18 |
| 2009 | May 21 | Oct 1 | May 20 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | May 5 | Oct 3 | Apr 18 | Oct 3 |
| 2007 | May 20 | Oct 13 | May 8 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | May 25 | Oct 13 | May 23 | Oct 13 |
| 2004 | May 5 | no data | May 5 | no data |
| 2003 | May 14 | Oct 2 | Apr 25 | Oct 2 |
| 2002 | May 24 | Oct 9 | May 23 | Oct 18 |
| 2001 | May 15 | Sep 30 | May 15 | Oct 7 |
| 2000 | Jun 9 | Sep 17 | May 17 | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | May 16 | Sep 19 | May 4 | Oct 15 |
| 1998 | Apr 29 | Oct 2 | Apr 29 | Oct 2 |
| 1997 | May 24 | Oct 2 | May 23 | Oct 16 |
| 1996 | May 15 | Oct 4 | May 15 | Oct 4 |
| 1995 | Apr 30 | Oct 16 | Apr 16 | Oct 17 |
| 1994 | May 29 | Oct 8 | Apr 24 | Oct 11 |
| 1993 | May 21 | Oct 1 | Apr 28 | Oct 11 |
| 1992 | May 8 | Sep 30 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 |
| 1991 | Apr 24 | Sep 28 | Apr 12 | Oct 8 |
| 1990 | May 8 | Oct 20 | Apr 20 | Oct 27 |
| 1989 | May 8 | Sep 24 | Apr 25 | Oct 10 |
| 1988 | May 26 | Oct 6 | May 1 | Oct 6 |
| 1987 | May 10 | Oct 5 | Apr 29 | Oct 9 |
| 1986 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 19 |
"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.