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Frost history / La Junta 17 Wsw, CO

La Junta 17 Wsw, CO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003063, 2004 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4,386 ft, 37.864, -103.823. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 10Oct 6
EarliestApr 17 (2012)Sep 8 (2020)
LatestJun 8 (2007)Oct 16 (2024)
Trend6.6 days earlier per decade2.8 days later per decade
Years with data2021

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 29 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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14201020202005: May 122006: May 112007: Jun 82008: May 162009: May 142010: May 252011: May 312012: Apr 172013: May 52014: May 142015: Apr 212016: May 82017: May 42018: May 42019: May 292020: May 102021: Apr 302022: May 222023: Apr 272024: May 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27201020202004: Sep 232005: Oct 62006: Oct 112007: Sep 272008: Oct 72009: Sep 222010: Oct 102011: Oct 102012: Oct 42013: Oct 42014: Oct 22015: Oct 162016: Oct 52017: Sep 202018: Oct 142019: Oct 72020: Sep 82021: Oct 112022: Oct 132023: Oct 62024: Oct 16

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2024May 9Oct 16Apr 12Oct 30
2023Apr 27Oct 6Apr 21Oct 13
2022May 22Oct 13May 3Oct 13
2021Apr 30Oct 11Apr 23Oct 15
2020May 10Sep 8May 10Oct 16
2019May 29Oct 7May 19Oct 10
2018May 4Oct 14Apr 27Oct 14
2017May 4Sep 20May 1Oct 10
2016May 8Oct 5May 2Oct 5
2015Apr 21Oct 16Apr 10Oct 28
2014May 14Oct 2Apr 15Oct 4
2013May 5Oct 4May 5Oct 5
2012Apr 17Oct 4Apr 7Oct 4
2011May 31Oct 10May 20Oct 13
2010May 25Oct 10May 25Oct 17
2009May 14Sep 22Apr 8Oct 1
2008May 16Oct 7May 11Oct 23
2007Jun 8Sep 27Apr 14Oct 8
2006May 11Oct 11Apr 26Oct 18
2005May 12Oct 6May 12Oct 7
2004no dataSep 23no dataOct 9

"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.