Frost history / Phillipsburg #2, KS
Phillipsburg #2, KS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00146378, 1997 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,888 ft, 39.753, -99.311. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 20 | Oct 23 |
| Earliest | Apr 9 (2010) | Sep 25 (2000) |
| Latest | May 12 (2008) | Nov 6 (1998) |
| Trend | 5.1 days later per decade | 5.7 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 13 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Apr 9 | no data | Apr 4 | no data |
| 2009 | Apr 29 | Oct 9 | Apr 8 | Oct 10 |
| 2008 | May 12 | Oct 16 | Apr 14 | Oct 27 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Oct 23 | Apr 12 | Nov 1 |
| 2006 | Apr 28 | Oct 13 | Apr 26 | Oct 18 |
| 2005 | May 3 | Oct 23 | May 3 | Oct 24 |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | Nov 3 | Apr 14 | Nov 3 |
| 2003 | Apr 10 | Oct 26 | Apr 10 | Oct 26 |
| 2002 | Apr 26 | Oct 23 | Apr 25 | Oct 24 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 16 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 2000 | Apr 22 | Sep 25 | Apr 18 | Oct 7 |
| 1999 | Apr 18 | Oct 17 | Apr 5 | Oct 18 |
| 1998 | Apr 18 | Nov 6 | Apr 4 | Nov 11 |
| 1997 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Oct 26 |
"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.