Frost history / Eastern Kentucky Univ, KY
Eastern Kentucky Univ, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00152409, 1978 to 2001, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,000 ft, 37.750, -84.333. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 10 | Oct 24 |
| Earliest | Mar 27 (1980) | Oct 7 (2000) |
| Latest | May 9 (1983) | Nov 25 (1978) |
| Trend | 2.2 days later per decade | 5.9 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 22 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Apr 19 | no data | Mar 29 | no data |
| 2000 | Apr 10 | Oct 7 | Apr 9 | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Apr 29 | Oct 24 | Mar 16 | Nov 5 |
| 1997 | Apr 19 | Oct 23 | Apr 11 | Nov 13 |
| 1996 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 | Apr 10 | Nov 3 |
| 1995 | Apr 6 | Nov 4 | Apr 6 | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | Apr 9 | Oct 26 | Apr 9 | Oct 27 |
| 1993 | Apr 23 | Oct 11 | Mar 20 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 | Apr 5 | Oct 19 |
| 1991 | Apr 2 | no data | Apr 1 | no data |
| 1990 | Apr 19 | Oct 24 | Apr 18 | Nov 8 |
| 1989 | May 8 | Oct 19 | Apr 12 | Nov 4 |
| 1988 | Mar 27 | Oct 12 | Mar 19 | Oct 13 |
| 1987 | Apr 5 | Oct 22 | Apr 5 | Oct 22 |
| 1986 | Apr 23 | Nov 13 | Apr 23 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 | Apr 10 | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Mar 31 | Nov 3 | Mar 31 | Nov 13 |
| 1983 | May 9 | Nov 5 | Apr 20 | Nov 12 |
| 1982 | Apr 11 | Oct 22 | Apr 9 | Nov 5 |
| 1981 | Apr 21 | Oct 24 | Mar 21 | Oct 24 |
| 1980 | Mar 27 | Oct 26 | Mar 14 | Oct 26 |
| 1979 | Apr 8 | Oct 14 | Apr 7 | Nov 29 |
| 1978 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Nov 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.