Russell 7E, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00147043, 2008 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,870 ft, 38.871, -98.705. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 20	Oct 21
Earliest	Mar 11 (2012)	Oct 7 (2012)
Latest	May 5 (2013)	Nov 12 (2016)
Trend	9.7 days later per decade	1.0 days earlier per decade
Years with data	14	14

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.

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
2022	Apr 26	no data	Apr 15	no data
2021	Apr 22	Oct 16	Apr 22	Nov 13
2020	Apr 18	Oct 24	Apr 15	Oct 24
2019	Apr 14	Oct 11	Apr 13	Oct 11
2018	Apr 20	Oct 11	Apr 20	Oct 15
2017	Apr 27	Oct 23	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 13	Nov 12	Apr 2	Nov 13
2015	Apr 21	Oct 29	Apr 11	Nov 19
2014	May 3	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 1
2013	May 5	Oct 19	May 4	Nov 6
2012	Mar 11	Oct 7	Mar 10	Oct 7
2011	Apr 26	Oct 20	Mar 29	Oct 28
2010	Apr 9	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 5
2009	Apr 8	Oct 10	Apr 8	Oct 10
2008	no data	Oct 27	no data	Oct 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.