Last Frost Day

Frost history / Pottstown Limerick Ap, PA

Pottstown Limerick Ap, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00054782, 1999 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 291 ft, 40.238, -75.557. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 20Oct 19
EarliestMar 28 (2010)Oct 8 (1999)
LatestMay 18 (2023)Nov 6 (2009)
Trend5.8 days later per decade0.9 days later per decade
Years with data2426

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020202000: Apr 142001: Apr 192002: May 42004: Apr 162005: May 32006: Apr 102007: Apr 142008: Apr 162009: Apr 162010: Mar 282011: Apr 22012: Apr 302013: Apr 62014: Apr 212015: Apr 252016: Apr 142017: Apr 92018: Apr 222019: Apr 292020: May 132021: Apr 232022: Apr 302023: May 182024: Apr 22

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201999: Oct 82000: Oct 92001: Oct 82002: Oct 222003: Oct 232004: Nov 42005: Oct 282006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 192009: Nov 62010: Nov 22011: Oct 302012: Oct 132013: Oct 262014: Oct 202015: Oct 182016: Oct 252017: Oct 172018: Oct 192019: Oct 192020: Oct 182021: Nov 32022: Oct 92023: Oct 242024: Oct 17

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 22Oct 17Mar 22Nov 13
2023May 18Oct 24Apr 9Nov 2
2022Apr 30Oct 9Apr 18Nov 14
2021Apr 23Nov 3Apr 3Nov 3
2020May 13Oct 18Apr 19Nov 18
2019Apr 29Oct 19Apr 2Nov 4
2018Apr 22Oct 19Apr 21Nov 10
2017Apr 9Oct 17Mar 24Nov 10
2016Apr 14Oct 25Apr 10Oct 26
2015Apr 25Oct 18Apr 2Oct 19
2014Apr 21Oct 20Mar 27Nov 8
2013Apr 6Oct 26Apr 4Nov 4
2012Apr 30Oct 13Mar 11Nov 6
2011Apr 2Oct 30Mar 28Oct 31
2010Mar 28Nov 2Mar 27Nov 29
2009Apr 16Nov 6Mar 25Nov 7
2008Apr 16Oct 19Apr 3Nov 18
2007Apr 14Oct 29Apr 11Nov 8
2006Apr 10Oct 13Mar 21Nov 4
2005May 3Oct 28Mar 22Nov 12
2004Apr 16Nov 4Mar 24Nov 9
2003no dataOct 23no dataOct 24
2002May 4Oct 22Apr 7Nov 7
2001Apr 19Oct 8Apr 19Oct 9
2000Apr 14Oct 9Mar 19Nov 16
1999no dataOct 8no dataNov 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.