Last Frost Day

Frost history / Willimantic Windham Ap, CT

Willimantic Windham Ap, CT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00054767, 1996 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 247 ft, 41.742, -72.184. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 1Oct 13
EarliestApr 15 (2017)Sep 21 (2020)
LatestMay 21 (2002)Nov 3 (2021)
Trend2.9 days earlier per decade4.3 days later per decade
Years with data2828

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Oct 27.

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 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020201997: May 51998: Apr 291999: May 12000: May 12001: May 82002: May 212003: May 182004: May 52005: May 132006: Apr 302007: May 72008: May 12009: Apr 172010: May 112011: May 62012: Apr 302013: May 152014: Apr 252015: Apr 262016: Apr 172017: Apr 152018: Apr 242019: Apr 292020: May 142021: Apr 242022: May 12023: May 182024: Apr 27

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201996: Oct 51997: Oct 21998: Oct 51999: Oct 72000: Sep 292001: Oct 82002: Oct 142003: Oct 62005: Oct 272006: Oct 142007: Oct 262008: Oct 72009: Oct 122010: Oct 102011: Oct 282012: Oct 122013: Oct 212014: Oct 202015: Oct 182016: Oct 152017: Oct 172018: Oct 182019: Oct 52020: Sep 212021: Nov 32022: Oct 92023: Nov 12024: Oct 13

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 27Oct 13Apr 8Nov 3
2023May 18Nov 1Apr 10Nov 2
2022May 1Oct 9Apr 18Oct 30
2021Apr 24Nov 3Apr 4Nov 4
2020May 14Sep 21Apr 19Oct 30
2019Apr 29Oct 5Apr 5Nov 2
2018Apr 24Oct 18Apr 11Oct 22
2017Apr 15Oct 17Mar 30Nov 9
2016Apr 17Oct 15Apr 6Nov 8
2015Apr 26Oct 18Apr 5Oct 18
2014Apr 25Oct 20Apr 10Nov 15
2013May 15Oct 21Apr 7Oct 25
2012Apr 30Oct 12Apr 7Oct 13
2011May 6Oct 28Apr 3Oct 30
2010May 11Oct 10Mar 28Nov 1
2009Apr 17Oct 12Apr 16Nov 7
2008May 1Oct 7Apr 15Oct 20
2007May 7Oct 26Apr 11Oct 29
2006Apr 30Oct 14Apr 10Oct 27
2005May 13Oct 27Apr 17Oct 28
2004May 5no dataApr 10no data
2003May 18Oct 6Apr 14Oct 20
2002May 21Oct 14Apr 27Oct 15
2001May 8Oct 8May 7Oct 9
2000May 1Sep 29Apr 14Oct 23
1999May 1Oct 7Apr 25Oct 8
1998Apr 29Oct 5Apr 12Oct 23
1997May 5Oct 2Apr 16Oct 22
1996no dataOct 5no dataOct 5

"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.