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Frost history / Quinault 4 Ne, WA

Quinault 4 Ne, WA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00004237, 2007 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 286 ft, 47.514, -123.812. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 17Nov 9
EarliestMar 4 (2015)Oct 11 (2008)
LatestMay 5 (2010)Dec 5 (2016)
Trend8.2 days earlier per decade2.6 days later per decade
Years with data1717

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 10 and the median first fall date is Dec 1.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202007: Apr 182008: Apr 302009: Apr 232010: May 52011: Apr 302013: May 12014: Mar 212015: Mar 42016: Mar 172017: Apr 32018: Apr 22019: May 12020: Apr 72021: Apr 112022: Apr 172023: Apr 142024: Apr 17

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202007: Oct 262008: Oct 112009: Nov 142010: Nov 222011: Nov 42012: Nov 92013: Nov 192014: Nov 112015: Nov 202016: Dec 52017: Nov 62018: Nov 182019: Oct 272020: Oct 252021: Nov 222022: Nov 72023: Oct 28

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
2024Apr 17no dataJan 16no data
2023Apr 14Oct 28Feb 25none
2022Apr 17Nov 7Feb 25Nov 18
2021Apr 11Nov 22Feb 10Dec 26
2020Apr 7Oct 25Jan 14none
2019May 1Oct 27Mar 9Nov 28
2018Apr 2Nov 18Feb 23Dec 5
2017Apr 3Nov 6Feb 25Dec 23
2016Mar 17Dec 5Jan 4Dec 6
2015Mar 4Nov 20Jan 1Nov 25
2014Mar 21Nov 11Feb 8Nov 13
2013May 1Nov 19Jan 21Nov 20
2012no dataNov 9no datanone
2011Apr 30Nov 4Feb 26Dec 6
2010May 5Nov 22Mar 9Nov 22
2009Apr 23Nov 14Mar 12Dec 4
2008Apr 30Oct 11Jan 28Dec 15
2007Apr 18Oct 26Feb 1Nov 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.