Frost history / Milan 5 Ne, IN
Milan 5 Ne, IN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00125658, 1989 to 2002, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 975 ft, 39.162, -85.052. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 21 | Oct 11 |
| Earliest | Mar 31 (1999) | Sep 30 (1992) |
| Latest | May 23 (2002) | Oct 19 (1999) |
| Trend | 13.7 days later per decade | 6.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 23.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | May 23 | no data | Apr 8 | no data |
| 2001 | Apr 27 | Oct 7 | Apr 19 | Oct 28 |
| 2000 | Apr 14 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1999 | Mar 31 | Oct 19 | Mar 29 | Oct 21 |
| 1998 | Apr 21 | Oct 15 | Apr 7 | Oct 23 |
| 1997 | May 17 | Oct 15 | Apr 19 | Oct 22 |
| 1996 | May 15 | Oct 12 | Apr 18 | Nov 2 |
| 1995 | Apr 6 | Oct 16 | Apr 6 | Oct 26 |
| 1994 | May 3 | Oct 10 | May 3 | Oct 27 |
| 1993 | Apr 28 | Sep 30 | Mar 20 | Sep 30 |
| 1992 | Apr 6 | Sep 30 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 |
| 1991 | Apr 11 | Oct 7 | Apr 2 | Oct 16 |
| 1990 | Apr 19 | Oct 19 | Apr 18 | Oct 26 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 9 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.