Meade, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00145171, 1951 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,504 ft, 37.285, -100.345. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 17	Oct 19
Earliest	Mar 11 (2012)	Sep 21 (1983)
Latest	May 14 (1953)	Nov 14 (1965)
Trend	1.0 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	65	67

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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.

Chart

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
2022	Apr 26	Oct 17	Apr 15	Nov 5
2021	Apr 22	Oct 16	Apr 21	Nov 4
2020	Apr 18	Oct 23	Apr 16	Oct 24
2019	Apr 15	Oct 11	Apr 15	Oct 11
2018	Apr 27	Oct 15	Apr 17	Oct 15
2017	Apr 30	Oct 22	Mar 16	Oct 27
2016	no data	Nov 9	no data	Nov 9
2015	Apr 21	no data	Apr 10	no data
2014	May 3	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 11
2013	May 4	Oct 17	May 3	Nov 7
2012	Mar 11	Oct 7	Mar 10	Oct 8
2011	Mar 31	no data	Mar 18	no data
2010	no data	Oct 19	no data	Nov 11
2008	no data	Oct 19	no data	Dec 1
2007	Apr 13	Oct 26	Feb 28	Nov 2
2006	no data	Nov 1	no data	Nov 1
2005	May 3	Oct 24	Mar 29	Oct 24
2004	Apr 15	Nov 2	Apr 15	Nov 2
2003	Mar 13	Oct 29	Mar 11	Nov 1
2002	Apr 6	Oct 24	Mar 26	Oct 28
2001	Apr 17	Oct 6	Mar 26	Nov 22
2000	Apr 17	Oct 5	Apr 17	Oct 5
1999	Apr 17	Oct 4	Mar 16	Nov 3
1998	Apr 17	Nov 5	Apr 17	Dec 6
1997	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 15	Oct 26
1996	May 2	Oct 18	Apr 7	Oct 19
1995	Apr 12	Sep 22	Apr 11	Oct 24
1994	Apr 29	Oct 27	Apr 6	Nov 5
1993	Apr 3	Oct 11	Mar 24	Oct 27
1992	Apr 4	Oct 17	Apr 3	Nov 4
1991	Apr 1	Oct 19	Mar 22	Oct 19
1990	May 1	Oct 10	Mar 27	Oct 22
1989	Apr 12	Oct 18	Apr 11	Oct 18
1988	Apr 23	Oct 28	Apr 21	Nov 16
1987	Apr 21	Nov 9	Apr 3	Nov 9
1986	Apr 13	Oct 12	Mar 20	Nov 8
1985	Mar 30	Sep 29	Mar 30	Nov 1
1984	Apr 30	Sep 29	Apr 5	Nov 1
1983	Apr 25	Sep 21	Apr 15	Nov 9
1982	Apr 23	Oct 20	Apr 21	Oct 20
1981	May 10	Oct 19	Mar 23	Oct 26
1980	Apr 14	Oct 17	Apr 14	Oct 17
1979	May 11	Oct 10	Apr 6	Nov 1
1978	May 3	Oct 19	Apr 11	Oct 27
1977	Apr 5	Oct 11	Apr 5	Oct 12
1976	Apr 1	Sep 28	Apr 1	Oct 8
1975	Apr 19	Sep 25	Apr 3	Oct 25
1974	Apr 16	Oct 15	Apr 16	Oct 15
1972	Apr 4	Oct 19	Apr 4	Oct 31
1971	May 13	Oct 29	Apr 7	Nov 6
1970	Apr 14	Oct 8	Apr 5	Oct 9
1969	Apr 28	Oct 13	Mar 30	Nov 4
1968	Apr 8	Oct 18	Apr 5	Nov 11
1967	May 2	Oct 25	Mar 18	Oct 25
1966	May 13	Oct 1	May 13	Oct 15
1965	Apr 28	Nov 14	Apr 28	Nov 14
1964	Apr 13	Oct 19	Apr 8	Oct 19
1963	Apr 23	Nov 1	Mar 26	Nov 13
1962	Apr 7	Oct 29	Apr 2	Nov 5
1961	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 15	Nov 3
1960	May 12	Oct 20	Apr 3	Nov 9
1959	Apr 22	Oct 18	Apr 22	Oct 27
1958	Apr 24	Oct 1	Mar 19	Nov 17
1957	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 14	Oct 26
1956	no data	Oct 21	no data	Nov 3
1955	Apr 7	no data	Apr 7	no data
1954	May 3	Oct 27	May 3	Oct 28
1953	May 14	Oct 27	Apr 20	Nov 9
1952	Apr 14	Oct 7	Apr 10	Oct 7
1951	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 13	Oct 31

"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.