Last Frost Day

Frost history / Chatham Muni Ap, MA

Chatham Muni Ap, MA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00094624, 1996 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 68 ft, 41.688, -69.993. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 11Nov 6
EarliestMar 26 (2017)Oct 19 (2001)
LatestMay 7 (2001)Nov 30 (2024)
Trend5.3 days earlier per decade3.8 days later per decade
Years with data2829

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 22.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 152000201020201997: Apr 111998: Apr 121999: May 12000: Apr 112001: May 72002: Apr 272003: Apr 182004: Apr 172005: Apr 172006: Apr 92007: Apr 112008: Apr 162009: Apr 172010: Mar 282011: Apr 92012: Apr 62013: Apr 72014: Apr 102015: Apr 122016: Apr 92017: Mar 262018: Apr 112019: Apr 22020: Apr 232021: Apr 42022: Mar 302023: Apr 32024: Apr 26

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020201996: Nov 121997: Oct 231998: Nov 41999: Nov 82000: Nov 212001: Oct 192002: Oct 252003: Oct 242004: Oct 282005: Nov 122006: Nov 32007: Nov 112008: Oct 232009: Nov 72010: Nov 22011: Oct 312012: Nov 62013: Nov 122014: Nov 152015: Nov 172016: Nov 222017: Nov 102018: Oct 192019: Nov 92020: Oct 312021: Nov 52022: Nov 152023: Nov 22024: 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
2024Apr 26Nov 30Mar 22Dec 2
2023Apr 3Nov 2Feb 26Nov 25
2022Mar 30Nov 15Mar 29Dec 14
2021Apr 4Nov 5Mar 16Dec 23
2020Apr 23Oct 31Mar 16Nov 19
2019Apr 2Nov 9Apr 2Nov 13
2018Apr 11Oct 19Mar 20Nov 22
2017Mar 26Nov 10Mar 24Nov 11
2016Apr 9Nov 22Apr 6Dec 10
2015Apr 12Nov 17Apr 2Nov 25
2014Apr 10Nov 15Mar 27Nov 16
2013Apr 7Nov 12Mar 18Nov 24
2012Apr 6Nov 6Mar 11Dec 6
2011Apr 9Oct 31Mar 15Dec 11
2010Mar 28Nov 2Mar 28Dec 6
2009Apr 17Nov 7Mar 25Dec 11
2008Apr 16Oct 23Mar 30Nov 20
2007Apr 11Nov 11Mar 18Nov 24
2006Apr 9Nov 3Mar 21Dec 5
2005Apr 17Nov 12Mar 27Nov 19
2004Apr 17Oct 28Mar 23Nov 10
2003Apr 18Oct 24Apr 1Nov 9
2002Apr 27Oct 25Mar 23Nov 3
2001May 7Oct 19Apr 4Nov 13
2000Apr 11Nov 21Mar 18Nov 23
1999May 1Nov 8Mar 21Nov 8
1998Apr 12Nov 4Mar 17Nov 19
1997Apr 11Oct 23Mar 25Oct 23
1996no dataNov 12no dataNov 13

"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.