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Frost history / Gaylord 9 Ssw, MI

Gaylord 9 Ssw, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00054854, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,461 ft, 44.908, -84.720. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 16Oct 9
EarliestApr 26 (2024)Sep 16 (2011)
LatestJun 3 (2013)Oct 22 (2023)
Trend11.9 days earlier per decade5.8 days later per decade
Years with data1717

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 30 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14201020202008: May 282009: May 312010: May 102011: May 162012: May 172013: Jun 32014: May 172015: May 202016: May 152017: May 92018: May 112019: May 112020: May 312021: May 112022: Apr 282023: May 172024: Apr 26

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27201020202008: Oct 32009: Oct 12010: Oct 32011: Sep 162012: Oct 62013: Oct 212014: Oct 182015: Oct 162016: Oct 212017: Oct 162018: Oct 52019: Oct 152020: Sep 182021: Oct 222022: Sep 292023: Oct 222024: Oct 9

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 26Oct 9Apr 25Nov 2
2023May 17Oct 22Apr 26Oct 30
2022Apr 28Sep 29Apr 28Oct 10
2021May 11Oct 22May 1Nov 3
2020May 31Sep 18May 13Oct 16
2019May 11Oct 15Apr 28Oct 25
2018May 11Oct 5Apr 29Oct 18
2017May 9Oct 16May 9Oct 26
2016May 15Oct 21Apr 13Nov 11
2015May 20Oct 16May 20Nov 20
2014May 17Oct 18May 17Oct 19
2013Jun 3Oct 21May 13Oct 28
2012May 17Oct 6Apr 27Oct 11
2011May 16Sep 16Apr 24Oct 28
2010May 10Oct 3May 10Oct 31
2009May 31Oct 1May 11Oct 10
2008May 28Oct 3Apr 30Oct 22

"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.