Frost history / Carmel 3 E, IN
Carmel 3 E, IN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00121303, 1999 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 752 ft, 39.962, -86.059. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 19 | Oct 17 |
| Earliest | Mar 30 (1999) | Sep 23 (1999) |
| Latest | May 10 (2021) | Nov 12 (2016) |
| Trend | 2.2 days later per decade | 6.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 22 | 21 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 16 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 2024 | Apr 6 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Nov 21 |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Oct 8 | Apr 12 | Nov 12 |
| 2021 | May 10 | Nov 3 | Apr 21 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | no data | Oct 16 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Oct 18 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 29 | Oct 16 | Apr 20 | Oct 21 |
| 2017 | May 8 | Oct 26 | Mar 24 | Oct 26 |
| 2016 | Apr 13 | Nov 12 | Apr 11 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Mar 30 | Nov 8 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | no data | Apr 16 | no data |
| 2012 | Apr 27 | Oct 8 | Apr 12 | Nov 5 |
| 2011 | May 5 | Oct 22 | Apr 1 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | Apr 28 | Oct 22 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 |
| 2009 | Apr 13 | Oct 11 | Mar 31 | Nov 28 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 21 | Apr 15 | Oct 30 |
| 2007 | Apr 17 | Oct 28 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 |
| 2006 | Apr 9 | Oct 12 | Apr 9 | Oct 25 |
| 2005 | May 4 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | no data | Apr 7 | no data |
| 2002 | Apr 24 | Oct 14 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 2000 | Apr 12 | Oct 8 | Apr 12 | Nov 17 |
| 1999 | Mar 30 | Sep 23 | Mar 28 | Sep 23 |
"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.