Frost history / Webster Springs 8 N, WV
Webster Springs 8 N, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00469336, 1990 to 2006, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,850 ft, 38.536, -80.417. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 11 | Oct 6 |
| Earliest | Apr 25 (2003) | Sep 25 (1990) |
| Latest | May 29 (1994) | Nov 2 (2002) |
| Trend | 7.0 days later per decade | 13.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 16.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | May 25 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 2005 | May 17 | Oct 26 | May 4 | Oct 30 |
| 2004 | May 5 | Oct 6 | May 5 | Nov 6 |
| 2003 | Apr 25 | Oct 3 | Apr 25 | Oct 3 |
| 2002 | May 23 | Nov 2 | May 23 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | May 14 | Oct 7 | Apr 20 | Oct 7 |
| 2000 | May 17 | Oct 8 | Apr 28 | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | May 4 | Oct 6 | Apr 26 | Oct 25 |
| 1998 | Apr 29 | Oct 3 | Apr 29 | Oct 23 |
| 1997 | May 23 | Oct 16 | May 2 | Oct 16 |
| 1996 | May 15 | Oct 4 | May 15 | Oct 12 |
| 1994 | May 29 | Oct 11 | Apr 24 | Oct 11 |
| 1993 | Apr 29 | Oct 1 | Apr 19 | Oct 2 |
| 1992 | May 8 | Sep 30 | Apr 7 | Oct 18 |
| 1991 | Apr 26 | Sep 27 | Apr 11 | Oct 8 |
| 1990 | Apr 30 | Sep 25 | Apr 30 | Oct 20 |
"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.