Frost history / Whiting Field Nas South, FL

Whiting Field Nas South, FL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053847, 1997 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 178 ft, 30.704, -87.023. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 6	Nov 27
Earliest	Feb 13 (2011)	Oct 29 (2008)
Latest	Mar 28 (2013)	Dec 19 (2015)
Trend	3.9 days later per decade	16.7 days later per decade
Years with data	16	12

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 15 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.

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
2021	Feb 22	no data	Feb 22	no data
2020	Feb 28	Dec 1	Jan 22	Dec 1
2019	Mar 7	no data	Jan 26	no data
2018	Mar 15	no data	Jan 19	no data
2017	Mar 16	Dec 10	Jan 8	none
2016	Feb 27	Nov 21	Feb 10	none
2015	Mar 6	Dec 19	Feb 19	none
2014	Mar 26	Nov 15	Feb 28	Nov 18
2013	Mar 28	Nov 27	Feb 17	Nov 28
2012	Feb 13	Nov 25	Feb 13	none
2011	Feb 13	Nov 30	Feb 12	Dec 1
2010	Mar 7	Dec 2	Mar 5	Dec 7
2009	Mar 3	Nov 27	Feb 5	none
2008	Mar 25	Oct 29	Feb 28	Nov 19
2007	Mar 6	Nov 16	Feb 19	none
1997	Feb 16	no data	Feb 16	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.