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Frost history / Nw Florida Beaches Intl Ap, FL

Nw Florida Beaches Intl Ap, FL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00073805, 2010 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 57 ft, 30.349, -85.788. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianFeb 25Nov 22
EarliestJan 21 (2024)Nov 7 (2010)
LatestMar 27 (2013)Dec 10 (2017)
Trend0.9 days earlier per decade11.4 days later per decade
Years with data1415, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 30 and the median first fall date is Dec 15.

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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15201020202011: Feb 142012: Feb 132013: Mar 272014: Feb 282015: Feb 202016: Feb 112017: Mar 162018: Mar 152019: Mar 62020: Feb 222021: Feb 172022: Mar 132023: Mar 212024: Jan 21

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26201020202010: Nov 72011: Nov 112012: Nov 252013: Nov 142014: Nov 182016: Nov 202017: Dec 102018: Nov 282019: Nov 132020: Dec 12021: Nov 272022: Nov 182023: Nov 292024: Nov 30

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
2024Jan 21Nov 30Jan 17none
2023Mar 21Nov 29nonenone
2022Mar 13Nov 18Feb 14Dec 23
2021Feb 17Nov 27nonenone
2020Feb 22Dec 1Jan 22Dec 26
2019Mar 6Nov 13nonenone
2018Mar 15Nov 28Jan 19none
2017Mar 16Dec 10Jan 8none
2016Feb 11Nov 20Jan 24none
2015Feb 20noneFeb 20none
2014Feb 28Nov 18Jan 30Nov 18
2013Mar 27Nov 14Feb 17none
2012Feb 13Nov 25Feb 12none
2011Feb 14Nov 11Feb 12none
2010no dataNov 7no dataDec 7

"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.