Golden, IL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00113530, 1963 to 2008, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 718 ft, 40.106, -91.022. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 14	Oct 14
Earliest	Mar 25 (1998)	Sep 22 (1974)
Latest	May 10 (1966)	Nov 6 (1998)
Trend	1.9 days earlier per decade	1.3 days later per decade
Years with data	38	39

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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)

First fall frost (32°F)

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2008	Apr 30	no data	Apr 3	no data
2007	Apr 16	Oct 28	Apr 9	Nov 2
2006	Apr 9	Oct 12	Mar 27	Oct 12
2005	May 5	Oct 27	Mar 17	Nov 16
2004	Apr 14	Oct 5	Apr 14	Nov 12
1998	Mar 25	Nov 6	Mar 24	Nov 7
1997	Apr 18	Oct 22	Apr 15	Oct 22
1996	Apr 14	Oct 19	Apr 10	Oct 31
1995	Apr 6	Nov 3	Apr 6	Nov 3
1994	Apr 8	Oct 25	Apr 7	Nov 16
1993	no data	Oct 10	no data	Oct 31
1992	Apr 5	Oct 17	Apr 2	Oct 18
1991	Mar 31	Oct 7	Mar 31	Oct 19
1990	Apr 19	Oct 19	Apr 12	Nov 8
1989	no data	Sep 24	no data	Nov 3
1988	Apr 20	Oct 5	Mar 30	Oct 26
1987	Apr 5	Oct 3	Apr 4	Oct 12
1986	Apr 23	Oct 11	Apr 22	Nov 10
1985	Apr 9	Oct 1	Apr 9	Nov 5
1984	Mar 31	Sep 26	Mar 23	Nov 2
1983	Apr 20	Nov 4	Apr 19	Nov 17
1982	no data	Oct 21	no data	Oct 22
1981	Apr 6	no data	Mar 23	no data
1980	Apr 15	Oct 12	Mar 22	Oct 26
1979	Apr 7	Oct 5	Apr 6	Oct 13
1978	May 2	Oct 28	Apr 20	Nov 14
1977	Apr 6	Oct 16	Apr 6	Nov 11
1976	May 3	Oct 7	Apr 12	Oct 16
1975	Apr 12	Oct 2	Apr 4	Nov 14
1974	Apr 9	Sep 22	Apr 8	Oct 2
1973	Apr 13	Nov 3	Apr 11	Nov 5
1972	Apr 9	Oct 15	Apr 8	Oct 15
1971	Apr 29	Nov 4	Apr 7	Nov 7
1970	Apr 5	Nov 2	Apr 2	Nov 15
1969	Apr 29	Oct 14	Mar 31	Oct 23
1968	Apr 25	Oct 4	Apr 25	Oct 25
1967	May 2	Sep 29	Apr 24	Oct 28
1966	May 10	Oct 17	Apr 10	Oct 25
1965	Apr 16	Oct 12	Mar 31	Oct 24
1964	Apr 9	Oct 5	Apr 9	Oct 10
1963	May 1	Oct 29	Apr 24	Nov 2

"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.