Frost history / Elizabethtown Wp Cs, KY
Elizabethtown Wp Cs, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00152512, 1989 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 690 ft, 37.680, -85.876. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 12 | Oct 19 |
| Earliest | Mar 28 (1999) | Oct 3 (2003) |
| Latest | May 3 (2005) | Nov 1 (2002) |
| Trend | 2.2 days later per decade | 1.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 20 | 18 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.
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 18 | Oct 22 | Mar 7 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | Apr 16 | Oct 28 | Mar 25 | Oct 30 |
| 2007 | Apr 13 | no data | Apr 13 | no data |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | Oct 13 | Mar 27 | Oct 25 |
| 2005 | May 3 | Oct 26 | Mar 21 | Oct 29 |
| 2004 | Apr 15 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Nov 25 |
| 2003 | Apr 11 | Oct 3 | Mar 11 | Nov 13 |
| 2002 | Apr 7 | Nov 1 | Apr 7 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 17 | Apr 18 | Oct 28 |
| 1999 | Mar 28 | Oct 20 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Apr 11 | Oct 23 | Mar 23 | Nov 5 |
| 1997 | Apr 18 | Oct 22 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 |
| 1996 | Apr 27 | Oct 19 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 |
| 1995 | Apr 8 | Oct 22 | Apr 5 | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | Apr 8 | Oct 27 | Apr 1 | Oct 27 |
| 1993 | Apr 23 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 1992 | Apr 5 | Oct 19 | Apr 4 | Oct 19 |
| 1991 | Apr 1 | no data | Apr 1 | no data |
| 1990 | Apr 18 | Oct 19 | Apr 8 | Oct 27 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Nov 4 |
"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.