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Frost history / Anamosa 3 Ssw, IA

Anamosa 3 Ssw, IA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00130214, 2012 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 906 ft, 42.077, -91.303. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 27Oct 15
EarliestApr 13 (2016)Sep 24 (2012)
LatestMay 13 (2013)Oct 29 (2017)
Trend0.9 days earlier per decade5.7 days later per decade
Years with data1314

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 25.

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 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 3020202012: Apr 212013: May 132014: Apr 202015: Apr 242016: Apr 132017: May 52018: Apr 292019: Apr 292020: May 122021: May 82023: Apr 272024: Apr 232025: Apr 17

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120202012: Sep 242013: Oct 222014: Oct 112015: Oct 172016: Oct 132017: Oct 292018: Oct 122019: Oct 122020: Oct 192021: Oct 232022: Oct 82023: Oct 102024: Oct 162025: Oct 23

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
2025Apr 17Oct 23Apr 9Oct 24
2024Apr 23Oct 16Apr 6Oct 16
2023Apr 27Oct 10Apr 25Oct 30
2022no dataOct 8no dataOct 18
2021May 8Oct 23Apr 22Nov 2
2020May 12Oct 19May 10Oct 26
2019Apr 29Oct 12Apr 16Oct 25
2018Apr 29Oct 12Apr 21Oct 21
2017May 5Oct 29Mar 23Oct 29
2016Apr 13Oct 13Apr 13Nov 12
2015Apr 24Oct 17Apr 11Oct 17
2014Apr 20Oct 11Apr 16Nov 1
2013May 13Oct 22Apr 20Oct 22
2012Apr 21Sep 24Apr 12Oct 27

"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.