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Frost history / Andover Aeroflex Ap, NJ

Andover Aeroflex Ap, NJ: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00054779, 1998 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 583 ft, 41.009, -74.737. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 26Oct 19
EarliestApr 9 (2017)Oct 3 (2003)
LatestMay 21 (2002)Nov 4 (2004)
Trend0.6 days later per decade4.8 days later per decade
Years with data2223

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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 302000201020202001: Apr 292002: May 212003: Apr 142004: Apr 162005: Apr 162006: Apr 262007: Apr 112008: May 12009: Apr 242010: May 112011: Apr 222012: Apr 302013: May 142014: Apr 282015: Apr 262016: Apr 152017: Apr 92018: Apr 222019: Apr 292020: May 132021: Apr 232022: Apr 30

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201998: Oct 221999: Oct 72000: Oct 82001: Oct 72002: Oct 152003: Oct 32004: Nov 42005: Oct 272006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 192009: Oct 182010: Nov 12011: Oct 282013: Oct 232014: Oct 202015: Oct 172016: Oct 112017: Oct 172018: Oct 182019: Oct 192020: Oct 302021: Nov 3

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
2022Apr 30no dataMar 30no data
2021Apr 23Nov 3Apr 3Nov 7
2020May 13Oct 30Apr 17Oct 31
2019Apr 29Oct 19Apr 2Nov 8
2018Apr 22Oct 18Apr 21Nov 11
2017Apr 9Oct 17Mar 30Nov 10
2016Apr 15Oct 11Apr 10Oct 26
2015Apr 26Oct 17Apr 25Oct 18
2014Apr 28Oct 20Apr 16Nov 13
2013May 14Oct 23Apr 4Oct 26
2012Apr 30no dataMar 27no data
2011Apr 22Oct 28Mar 30Oct 31
2010May 11Nov 1Mar 27Nov 2
2009Apr 24Oct 18Apr 9Oct 19
2008May 1Oct 19Apr 3Oct 20
2007Apr 11Oct 29Apr 11Nov 8
2006Apr 26Oct 13Mar 27Oct 27
2005Apr 16Oct 27Mar 26Nov 11
2004Apr 16Nov 4Apr 5Nov 9
2003Apr 14Oct 3Apr 7Oct 24
2002May 21Oct 15Apr 24Oct 24
2001Apr 29Oct 7Apr 19Oct 9
2000no dataOct 8no dataOct 9
1999no dataOct 7no dataNov 8
1998no dataOct 22no dataNov 3

"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.