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Frost history / Klawock Ap, AK

Klawock Ap, AK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00025367, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 12 ft, 55.580, -133.075. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 4Oct 17
EarliestMar 17 (2016)Sep 29 (1999)
LatestMay 18 (2021)Nov 8 (2008)
Trend2.5 days earlier per decade0.7 days earlier per decade
Years with data2525

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020201999: May 132000: May 82001: Apr 202002: May 92003: May 172004: Apr 292005: Apr 172006: May 132007: May 182008: May 92009: Apr 272010: May 32011: May 142012: May 142013: Apr 302014: May 42015: Apr 242016: Mar 172017: May 42018: Apr 292019: Apr 302021: May 182022: May 82023: May 42024: Apr 29

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201998: Oct 281999: Sep 292000: Oct 22001: Oct 242002: Oct 102003: Oct 292004: Oct 172005: Oct 152006: Oct 282007: Oct 192008: Nov 82009: Sep 292010: Oct 212011: Nov 22012: Oct 22013: Nov 22014: Oct 262015: Oct 42016: Oct 92017: Oct 122018: Oct 32019: Oct 132021: Oct 32022: Oct 312024: Oct 21

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 29Oct 21Mar 5Nov 23
2023May 4no dataApr 2no data
2022May 8Oct 31Apr 17Nov 2
2021May 18Oct 3Mar 29Oct 17
2019Apr 30Oct 13Mar 9Nov 27
2018Apr 29Oct 3Apr 4Dec 1
2017May 4Oct 12Mar 21Nov 3
2016Mar 17Oct 9Jan 5Nov 17
2015Apr 24Oct 4Mar 2Nov 23
2014May 4Oct 26Apr 13Nov 13
2013Apr 30Nov 2Apr 30Nov 3
2012May 14Oct 2Apr 8Oct 22
2011May 14Nov 2Mar 24Nov 3
2010May 3Oct 21May 3Nov 10
2009Apr 27Sep 29Apr 3Nov 17
2008May 9Nov 8Apr 25Nov 9
2007May 18Oct 19Apr 3Nov 19
2006May 13Oct 28Apr 16Oct 29
2005Apr 17Oct 15Mar 24Nov 28
2004Apr 29Oct 17Mar 19Oct 22
2003May 17Oct 29May 5Oct 29
2002May 9Oct 10May 6Dec 4
2001Apr 20Oct 24Apr 15Nov 25
2000May 8Oct 2Apr 15Nov 9
1999May 13Sep 29Apr 27Dec 13
1998no dataOct 28no dataNov 8

"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.