Frost history / Gimlet 9N, KY
Gimlet 9N, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00153230, 2006 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,120 ft, 38.219, -83.143. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 6 | Oct 29 |
| Earliest | Mar 24 (2017) | Oct 9 (2012) |
| Latest | Apr 18 (2018) | Nov 12 (2016) |
| Trend | 3.2 days later per decade | 2.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 13 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Apr 18 | Oct 20 | Apr 8 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 24 | Oct 30 | Mar 24 | Oct 30 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 12 | Apr 11 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 5 | Oct 26 | Apr 3 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 12 | Oct 9 | Mar 10 | Nov 6 |
| 2011 | Apr 2 | Oct 29 | Apr 2 | Nov 18 |
| 2010 | Mar 28 | Nov 6 | Mar 7 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 18 | Mar 22 | Nov 28 |
| 2008 | Mar 30 | Nov 11 | Mar 26 | Nov 12 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 | Apr 9 | Nov 24 |
| 2006 | no data | Oct 13 | no data | Nov 3 |
"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.