Bardwell 2 E, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00150402, 1965 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 410 ft, 36.883, -88.996. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Oct 19
Earliest	Mar 22 (1967)	Sep 24 (1983)
Latest	May 4 (1976)	Nov 14 (1975)
Trend	3.5 days later per decade	2.3 days later per decade
Years with data	37	40

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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
2009	Apr 21	Oct 18	Mar 20	Nov 27
2008	Apr 29	Oct 28	Mar 23	Oct 29
2007	no data	Nov 1	no data	Nov 7
2005	no data	Oct 26	no data	Nov 17
2004	no data	Oct 17	no data	Nov 25
2003	no data	Nov 8	no data	Nov 13
1999	Mar 28	no data	Mar 22	no data
1998	Apr 5	Nov 5	Mar 14	Nov 12
1997	Apr 18	Oct 22	Apr 9	Oct 28
1996	Apr 10	Oct 19	Apr 10	Nov 3
1995	Apr 5	Oct 25	Apr 1	Nov 4
1994	Apr 7	Oct 26	Apr 7	Nov 23
1993	Apr 23	Oct 22	Apr 4	Oct 28
1992	Apr 6	Oct 19	Apr 3	Nov 7
1991	Mar 31	Oct 7	Mar 31	Nov 2
1990	Apr 12	Oct 26	Apr 12	Nov 29
1989	Apr 12	Nov 1	Apr 11	Nov 3
1988	Apr 16	Oct 12	Mar 16	Nov 17
1987	Apr 6	Oct 4	Apr 3	Oct 22
1986	Apr 23	Oct 15	Mar 22	Nov 12
1985	Apr 9	Nov 5	Mar 6	Nov 21
1984	Apr 3	Oct 2	Apr 1	Nov 17
1983	Apr 21	Sep 24	Apr 20	Nov 6
1982	Apr 10	Oct 21	Apr 10	Nov 4
1981	Mar 25	Oct 24	Mar 19	Oct 24
1980	Mar 22	Oct 5	Mar 18	Oct 13
1979	Apr 6	Oct 10	Mar 26	Oct 14
1978	Mar 26	Oct 8	Mar 18	Dec 1
1977	Mar 23	Oct 13	Mar 7	Nov 13
1976	May 4	Oct 18	Mar 17	Oct 18
1975	Apr 12	Nov 14	Mar 26	Nov 14
1974	Apr 9	Oct 3	Apr 9	Nov 15
1973	Apr 14	Nov 6	Apr 11	Nov 6
1972	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 8	Nov 23
1971	Apr 8	Nov 4	Apr 5	Nov 4
1970	Apr 6	Oct 17	Mar 27	Nov 6
1969	Mar 31	Oct 15	Mar 31	Oct 28
1968	Mar 25	Oct 5	Mar 24	Oct 26
1967	Mar 22	Oct 11	Mar 19	Oct 28
1966	Apr 10	Oct 16	Apr 10	Oct 26
1965	Mar 28	Oct 25	Mar 27	Oct 25

"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.