Massachusetts, 2007Frost and Freeze in Massachusetts, May 22, 2007
May 22, 2007 · NWS BOX · 1 event in 1 county or zone
An unseasonably chilly airmass moved into Southern New England behind a cold front on the 21st of May. Several locations in Northern Massachusetts and Southwestern New Hampshire experienced a frost with low temperatures dropping into the lower to mid 30s.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
An unseasonably chilly airmass moved into Southern New England behind a cold front on the 21st of May. Several locations in Northern Massachusetts and Southwestern New Hampshire experienced a frost with low temperatures dropping into the lower to mid 30s.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 21, 3:20 PM EST, 11 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 3:20 PM EST, 11 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>Frost/Freeze, Northern Worcester
- When
- May 22, 3:00 AM EST to 6:00 AM EST
- Where
- Northern Worcester forecast zone
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 42.351, -71.908 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Early morning low temperatures were as follows: North Ashburnham 34;|Birch Hill Dam 34; Tully Lake 36; and Barre Falls Dam 34.
- Frost/Freeze
- Frost or temperatures at or below freezing during the growing season, usually filed for crop damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Rip Current in Florida, May 22 to 30, 20071 death · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 22, 2007$1.1 million · 1.75 in hail · 17 events
- Flash Flooding in Texas, May 22, 2007$400,000 · 2 events
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 22, 2007$100,000 · 1 in hail · 3 events
- Tornadoes and Flood in Kansas, May 22 to 23, 2007$2,000 · EF0 · 36 events
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 22, 2007$50,000 · 60 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 22, 2007$50,000 · 65 kt wind · 1 event
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, May 22, 2007$1,000 · EF0 · 34 events
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, May 22, 2007$15,000 · 1.75 in hail · 5 events
- Drought in Alabama, May 22 to 31, 200711 events
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 22, 2007$15,000 · 50 kt wind · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, May 22, 20071 injured · 1 event
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 34173.