{"id":10116,"date":"2022-10-07T08:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2022-10-07T08:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:34:25","slug":"20-years-of-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2022\/10\/20-years-of-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years of frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3765\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121005b-04b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121005b-04b-299x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"164\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121005b-04b-299x164.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121005b-04b-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121005b-04b.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weather station<\/figcaption><\/figure>This is the data from our weather station located current in our vegetable beds out back.<br \/>\nThe station is approx 2m above ground in a grassy\/earthen area, well area from the house and greenhouse<br \/>\nWe have great confidence in the accuracy of the temperatures as we have compared them against other references including alcohol thermometers, other electronic thermometers and frost on the ground itself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This displays the number of nonfrost growing days in any given season.<\/p>\n<p>This year light frost growing days were a little above (147 days) average (143 days), while this years heavy frost growing days (155 days) were  below average (164 days).<\/p>\n<p>A formatted PDF is available:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/frostgrowanalysis.pdf\">frostgrowanalysis 2003-2022<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\tStarlightCascade Gardens &#038; Observatory  Weather Station<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tYarker Ontario Canada<br \/>\n\tLIGHT  FROST (-1C)\t\t\t\t\tHEAVY FROST (-3C)<br \/>\nYear\t\t#days\t#weeks\t\tYear\t\t#days\t#weeks<br \/>\n2003\tApr30-Oct23\t176\t25\t\t2003\tApr24-Nov08\t198\t28<br \/>\n2004\tMay08-Oct11\t156\t22\t\t2004\tApr16-Nov03\t201\t29<br \/>\n2005\tMay17-Oct20\t156\t22\t\t2005\tMar13-Oct21\t222\t32<br \/>\n2006\t\tno data\tno data\t\t2006\t\tno data\tno data<br \/>\n2007\tMay18-Oct12\t147\t21\t\t2007\tMay13-Oct13\t153\t22<br \/>\n2008\tMay06-Oct06\t154\t22\t\t2008\tApr30-Oct07\t160\t23<br \/>\n2009\tMay13-Sep19\t129\t18\t\t2009\tApr17-Oct12\t179\t26<br \/>\n2010\tJun13-Oct10\t119\t17\t\t2010\tJun11-Nov01\t143\t20<br \/>\n2011\tApr22-Sep17\t149\t21\t\t2011\tApr22-Oct06\t167\t24<br \/>\n2012\tApr30-Oct08\t162\t23\t\t2012\tApr30-Oct12\t165\t24<br \/>\n2013\tMay14-Sep16\t125\t18\t\t2013\tMay14-Oct29\t168\t24<br \/>\n2014\tMay18-Sep19\t124\t18\t\t2014\tApr25-Sep19\t147\t21<br \/>\n2015\tMay23-Oct10\t140\t20\t\t2015\tMay23-Oct17\t147\t21<br \/>\n2016\tMay18-Sep25\t130\t19\t\t2016\tMay10-Sep25\t138\t20<br \/>\n2017\tMay11-Oct01\t143\t20\t\t2017\tMay10-Oct17\t160\t23<br \/>\n2018\tMay12-Oct05\t146\t21\t\t2018\tApr23-Oct14\t174\t25<br \/>\n2019\tApr29-Oct05\t159\t23\t\t2019\tApr29-Oct05\t159\t23<br \/>\n2020\tJun01-Sep15\t107\t15\t\t2020\tMay14-Sep19\t128\t18<br \/>\n2021\tMay31-Oct19\t141\t20\t\t2021\tMay30-Oct22\t145\t21<br \/>\n2022\tMay05-Oct03\t147\t21\t\t2022\tMay01-Oct03\t155\t22<\/p>\n<p>min\t\t107\t15\t\tmin\t\t128\t18<br \/>\naverage\t\t143\t20\t\taverage\t\t164\t23<br \/>\nmedian\t\t146\t21\t\tmedian\t\t160\t23<br \/>\nmax\t\t176\t25\t\tmax\t\t222\t32<br \/>\nstddev\t\t17\t2\t\tstddev\t\t23\t3<\/p>\n<p>\tLast Updated 2022October07<br \/>\n\tAll data comes from our weather station located just outside Yarker Ontario Canada<br \/>\n\thttp:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/weather\/<br \/>\n\thttps:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/personal-weather-station\/dashboard?ID=IONTARIO51<br \/>\n\thttps:\/\/www.pwsweather.com\/obs\/YARKER1.html\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the data from our weather station located current in our vegetable beds out back. The station is approx 2m above ground in a grassy\/earthen area, well area from the house and greenhouse We have great confidence in the accuracy of the temperatures as we have compared them against other references including alcohol thermometers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10116"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10124,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions\/10124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}