Oceana 2 Se, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00466600, 1998 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

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Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 22	Oct 22
Earliest	Apr 7 (2011)	Oct 3 (2003)
Latest	May 22 (2002)	Nov 11 (2017)
Trend	0.8 days later per decade	6.3 days later per decade
Years with data	21	22

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 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.

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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
2022	Apr 21	no data	Apr 21	no data
2021	Apr 25	Nov 4	Apr 25	Nov 4
2020	May 11	Oct 17	Apr 12	Nov 3
2019	Apr 18	Oct 19	Apr 4	Nov 2
2018	May 2	Oct 22	Apr 22	Nov 11
2017	Apr 10	Nov 11	Mar 23	Nov 11
2016	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 13
2014	no data	Oct 31	no data	Nov 3
2013	Apr 22	Oct 21	Apr 4	Oct 26
2012	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 3
2011	Apr 7	no data	Mar 30	no data
2010	Apr 29	Oct 22	Mar 28	Oct 31
2009	Apr 13	Oct 19	Mar 22	Nov 4
2008	May 1	Oct 20	Apr 19	Oct 22
2007	Apr 11	Oct 29	Apr 11	Oct 29
2006	Apr 11	Oct 13	Mar 28	Oct 13
2005	May 4	Oct 26	Mar 23	Oct 31
2004	May 5	Oct 17	Apr 6	Nov 9
2003	Apr 26	Oct 3	Apr 1	Nov 14
2002	May 22	Nov 2	Apr 8	Nov 2
2001	Apr 27	Oct 8	Apr 20	Oct 28
2000	Apr 10	Oct 8	Mar 19	Oct 11
1999	Apr 15	Oct 25	Mar 31	Nov 4
1998	Apr 13	Oct 23	Mar 24	Oct 23

"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.