Morningside, MD 20731 Frost Dates
Morningside, MD: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Morningside sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Morningside's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Morningside's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Morningside against the rest of the dataset
Morningside's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 16,965 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MD, it ranks 393 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 20731's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Morningside's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Morningside can differ from the 20731 normal.