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Frost history / Skagway Ap, AK

Skagway Ap, AK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00025335, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 20 ft, 59.456, -135.324. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 24Oct 13
EarliestMar 15 (2016)Sep 29 (2009)
LatestMay 11 (1999)Nov 1 (2022)
Trend1.5 days earlier per decade0.6 days earlier per decade
Years with data2726

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020201998: Apr 131999: May 112000: Apr 272001: Apr 162002: May 32003: Apr 172004: Apr 212005: Apr 192006: May 12007: May 12008: May 12009: Apr 272010: Apr 242011: Apr 282012: Apr 232013: Apr 302014: Apr 252015: Apr 222016: Mar 152017: Apr 152018: Apr 212019: Apr 282020: Apr 122021: Apr 222022: May 62023: May 52024: Apr 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201998: Oct 271999: Oct 162000: Sep 302001: Oct 262002: Oct 92003: Oct 122004: Oct 192005: Oct 152006: Oct 182007: Oct 192008: Oct 62009: Sep 292010: Oct 202011: Oct 22012: Oct 12013: Oct 222014: Oct 22015: Nov 12016: Oct 102017: Oct 122018: Oct 22019: Oct 72020: Oct 162021: Oct 52022: Nov 12024: Oct 18

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 19Oct 18Apr 3Oct 20
2023May 5no dataApr 11no data
2022May 6Nov 1Apr 15Nov 1
2021Apr 22Oct 5Apr 11Oct 17
2020Apr 12Oct 16Apr 12Nov 1
2019Apr 28Oct 7Mar 8Oct 8
2018Apr 21Oct 2Apr 17Nov 6
2017Apr 15Oct 12Mar 19Nov 5
2016Mar 15Oct 10Feb 20Nov 22
2015Apr 22Nov 1Mar 25Nov 14
2014Apr 25Oct 2Apr 12Nov 15
2013Apr 30Oct 22Apr 29Nov 8
2012Apr 23Oct 1Apr 9Oct 26
2011Apr 28Oct 2Apr 19Nov 2
2010Apr 24Oct 20Apr 12Nov 16
2009Apr 27Sep 29Apr 3Nov 13
2008May 1Oct 6Apr 19Oct 26
2007May 1Oct 19Apr 4Oct 20
2006May 1Oct 18Apr 1Oct 28
2005Apr 19Oct 15Apr 8Nov 4
2004Apr 21Oct 19Mar 24Oct 19
2003Apr 17Oct 12Apr 5Oct 30
2002May 3Oct 9Apr 26Dec 4
2001Apr 16Oct 26Apr 10Oct 29
2000Apr 27Sep 30Apr 10Oct 1
1999May 11Oct 16Apr 5Nov 26
1998Apr 13Oct 27Apr 12Oct 28

"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.