Frost history / Camp Pendleton Mcas, CA
Camp Pendleton Mcas, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003154, 1967 to 2005, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 75 ft, 33.300, -117.350. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 15 | Dec 1 |
| Earliest | Jan 7 (1998) | Nov 17 (1994) |
| Latest | Apr 29 (1969) | Dec 17 (1990) |
| Trend | 20.9 days earlier per decade | 3.5 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 15, 4 with no freeze | 16, 3 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 18 and the median first fall date is Dec 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2003 | Feb 7 | Nov 24 | none | none |
| 2001 | Feb 15 | Nov 28 | none | Dec 16 |
| 1998 | Jan 7 | Dec 7 | Jan 6 | Dec 11 |
| 1997 | Feb 25 | Dec 9 | none | Dec 26 |
| 1996 | Feb 27 | none | none | none |
| 1995 | none | none | none | none |
| 1994 | none | Nov 17 | none | Nov 19 |
| 1993 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1992 | Jan 13 | Dec 1 | none | none |
| 1991 | Jan 31 | Dec 1 | none | Dec 1 |
| 1990 | Feb 16 | Dec 17 | Feb 15 | Dec 23 |
| 1989 | Feb 16 | Dec 1 | Jan 14 | none |
| 1988 | no data | Nov 21 | no data | Dec 30 |
| 1987 | Jan 22 | Dec 14 | Jan 22 | Dec 15 |
| 1969 | Apr 29 | Dec 14 | none | none |
| 1968 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | Dec 21 |
| 1967 | none | no data | none | no data |
"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.