Frost history / Providence, KY
Providence, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00156595, 1979 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 409 ft, 37.400, -87.762. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 6 | Oct 23 |
| Earliest | Mar 8 (2010) | Oct 4 (1987) |
| Latest | Apr 23 (1986) | Nov 23 (1994) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 3.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 28 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Apr 21 | Nov 3 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 | Apr 15 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 18 | Oct 22 | Apr 8 | Nov 13 |
| 2017 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2012 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 2011 | Mar 11 | Oct 29 | Mar 7 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Oct 29 | Mar 5 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Apr 16 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Oct 29 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Apr 11 | Oct 14 | Mar 28 | Oct 25 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 1999 | Mar 28 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 1998 | Mar 24 | Oct 23 | Mar 22 | Nov 7 |
| 1997 | Apr 18 | Oct 22 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 |
| 1996 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1995 | Apr 5 | Nov 3 | Apr 5 | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | Apr 7 | Nov 23 | Apr 7 | Nov 24 |
| 1993 | Apr 4 | Oct 22 | Apr 4 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Apr 3 | Oct 19 | Apr 3 | Nov 14 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Oct 16 | Mar 31 | Nov 3 |
| 1990 | Apr 18 | Oct 26 | Apr 12 | Nov 29 |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | Oct 20 | Apr 12 | Nov 3 |
| 1988 | Mar 27 | Oct 6 | Mar 19 | Oct 13 |
| 1987 | Apr 4 | Oct 4 | Apr 4 | Oct 22 |
| 1986 | Apr 23 | Nov 10 | Apr 23 | Nov 13 |
| 1984 | Apr 2 | no data | Apr 1 | no data |
| 1983 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 1982 | Apr 7 | Oct 17 | Mar 28 | Oct 17 |
| 1981 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 |
| 1980 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Oct 5 |
| 1979 | Apr 7 | no data | Apr 6 | no data |
"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.