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Frost history / Iuka 12 Sw, IL

Iuka 12 Sw, IL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00114400, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 590 ft, 38.493, -88.971. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 12Oct 22
EarliestMar 21 (2005)Oct 2 (2003)
LatestApr 30 (2008)Nov 12 (2016)
Trend4.0 days later per decade5.2 days later per decade
Years with data2726

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 29 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.

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 152000201020201998: Apr 51999: Mar 272000: Apr 122001: Apr 192002: Apr 72003: Apr 112004: Apr 142005: Mar 212006: Apr 102007: Apr 142008: Apr 302009: Apr 82010: Mar 272011: Apr 12012: Apr 122013: Apr 212014: Apr 162015: Mar 302016: Apr 102017: Mar 232018: Apr 212019: Apr 162020: Apr 192021: Apr 232022: Apr 202023: Apr 252024: Apr 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201998: Oct 221999: Oct 52000: Oct 72001: Oct 72002: Oct 142003: Oct 22005: Oct 262006: Oct 122007: Oct 292008: Oct 282009: Oct 182010: Oct 292011: Nov 102012: Oct 312013: Oct 222014: Nov 12015: Oct 182016: Nov 122017: Oct 292018: Oct 212019: Nov 12020: Oct 52021: Nov 32022: Oct 82023: Oct 312024: Oct 16

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 7Oct 16Mar 20Nov 26
2023Apr 25Oct 31Mar 29Oct 31
2022Apr 20Oct 8Apr 19Oct 18
2021Apr 23Nov 3Apr 3Nov 3
2020Apr 19Oct 5Mar 8Nov 18
2019Apr 16Nov 1Apr 2Nov 1
2018Apr 21Oct 21Apr 18Oct 21
2017Mar 23Oct 29Mar 20Oct 29
2016Apr 10Nov 12Apr 5Nov 13
2015Mar 30Oct 18Mar 29Oct 18
2014Apr 16Nov 1Mar 31Nov 2
2013Apr 21Oct 22Apr 4Oct 25
2012Apr 12Oct 31Mar 10Nov 4
2011Apr 1Nov 10Mar 28Nov 11
2010Mar 27Oct 29Mar 27Oct 29
2009Apr 8Oct 18Mar 31Nov 27
2008Apr 30Oct 28Mar 25Oct 28
2007Apr 14Oct 29Apr 14Nov 7
2006Apr 10Oct 12Mar 27Oct 23
2005Mar 21Oct 26Mar 20Nov 17
2004Apr 14no dataMar 23no data
2003Apr 11Oct 2Mar 31Oct 27
2002Apr 7Oct 14Apr 5Oct 14
2001Apr 19Oct 7Apr 18Oct 27
2000Apr 12Oct 7Apr 9Oct 7
1999Mar 27Oct 5Mar 27Oct 18
1998Apr 5Oct 22Mar 24Nov 5

"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.