Frost history / Montauk Ap, NY
Montauk Ap, NY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00054780, 1999 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 7 ft, 41.073, -71.923. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 10 | Nov 16 |
| Earliest | Mar 24 (2017) | Oct 25 (2003) |
| Latest | May 1 (2008) | Dec 2 (2009) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 24 | 24 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Dec 5.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Apr 26 | no data | Feb 25 | no data |
| 2023 | Apr 3 | Nov 25 | Feb 26 | Nov 25 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Nov 15 | Mar 29 | Dec 5 |
| 2021 | Apr 2 | Nov 24 | Mar 16 | Dec 20 |
| 2020 | Apr 12 | Nov 15 | Mar 2 | Dec 17 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | Nov 9 | Apr 2 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Apr 10 | Nov 12 | Mar 18 | Nov 22 |
| 2017 | Mar 24 | Nov 10 | Mar 24 | Dec 13 |
| 2016 | Apr 9 | Nov 28 | Mar 6 | Dec 15 |
| 2015 | Apr 5 | Nov 17 | Apr 2 | none |
| 2014 | Apr 21 | Nov 16 | Mar 27 | Nov 16 |
| 2013 | Apr 7 | Nov 13 | Mar 18 | Nov 24 |
| 2012 | Mar 28 | Nov 26 | Mar 11 | Dec 6 |
| 2011 | Apr 10 | Nov 5 | Mar 2 | Dec 11 |
| 2010 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Dec 9 |
| 2009 | Apr 16 | Dec 2 | Mar 26 | Dec 11 |
| 2008 | May 1 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 2007 | Apr 20 | Nov 8 | Apr 1 | Nov 24 |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | Nov 26 | Mar 29 | Dec 6 |
| 2005 | Apr 17 | Nov 19 | Mar 20 | Nov 19 |
| 2004 | Apr 5 | Nov 10 | Mar 23 | Dec 14 |
| 2003 | Apr 8 | Oct 25 | Mar 14 | Nov 26 |
| 2002 | Apr 7 | Nov 21 | Mar 23 | Nov 27 |
| 2001 | Mar 29 | Nov 17 | Mar 29 | Dec 10 |
| 2000 | Apr 14 | Nov 19 | Apr 14 | Nov 23 |
| 1999 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Dec 1 |
"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.