Frost history / John Redmond Lake, KS
John Redmond Lake, KS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00144104, 1965 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,092 ft, 38.255, -95.750. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 9 | Oct 20 |
| Earliest | Mar 10 (2012) | Sep 29 (1967) |
| Latest | May 2 (1967) | Nov 12 (2016) |
| Trend | 1.7 days earlier per decade | 1.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 31 | 26 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 and the median first fall date is Oct 27.
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 7 | Nov 2 | Mar 21 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Mar 27 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 2023 | Apr 23 | Oct 30 | Mar 29 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 2 | Oct 17 | Mar 13 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Oct 31 | Apr 22 | Nov 14 |
| 2020 | Apr 17 | Oct 26 | Apr 13 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Apr 1 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 2018 | Apr 19 | no data | Apr 16 | no data |
| 2017 | Mar 17 | Oct 27 | Mar 16 | Oct 27 |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Apr 5 | no data | Apr 5 | no data |
| 2013 | Apr 25 | Oct 19 | Apr 24 | Nov 12 |
| 2012 | Mar 10 | Oct 7 | Mar 5 | Oct 7 |
| 2011 | Apr 5 | Oct 19 | Mar 29 | Oct 20 |
| 1999 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 26 | no data |
| 1998 | Apr 4 | no data | Mar 21 | no data |
| 1995 | Apr 27 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 1993 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Oct 6 | Mar 30 | Oct 19 |
| 1990 | Apr 13 | Oct 10 | Apr 12 | Nov 7 |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | Oct 18 | Apr 12 | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Mar 30 | Oct 28 | Mar 19 | Oct 28 |
| 1987 | no data | Oct 21 | no data | Oct 21 |
| 1975 | Apr 12 | no data | Apr 4 | no data |
| 1974 | Apr 16 | Nov 6 | Apr 5 | Nov 6 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 | Apr 11 | Nov 6 |
| 1972 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 | Apr 8 | Oct 19 |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Oct 31 | Apr 7 | Nov 7 |
| 1970 | Apr 5 | Oct 16 | Apr 3 | Nov 15 |
| 1969 | Apr 5 | Oct 17 | Mar 31 | Oct 27 |
| 1968 | Apr 24 | Oct 24 | Apr 5 | Oct 28 |
| 1967 | May 2 | Sep 29 | Apr 24 | Oct 28 |
| 1966 | Apr 21 | Oct 16 | Apr 21 | Oct 16 |
| 1965 | Apr 28 | Oct 22 | Mar 31 | Oct 24 |
"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.