Frost history / Rochester Ferry, KY
Rochester Ferry, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00156882, 1965 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 390 ft, 37.217, -86.894. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 10 | Oct 18 |
| Earliest | Mar 23 (1967) | Oct 3 (1974) |
| Latest | May 10 (2020) | Nov 14 (1975) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 30 | 29 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Mar 30 | Oct 31 | Mar 22 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Apr 3 | no data | Mar 14 | no data |
| 2021 | Apr 21 | Nov 3 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 17 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | Oct 13 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 21 | Oct 21 | Apr 21 | Oct 21 |
| 2017 | Apr 9 | Oct 26 | Mar 20 | Oct 30 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Oct 5 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | no data | Oct 25 | no data | Oct 25 |
| 2009 | Mar 31 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 2008 | Mar 26 | Oct 29 | Mar 10 | Nov 10 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 1992 | Apr 6 | no data | Apr 4 | no data |
| 1991 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 16 |
| 1990 | Apr 19 | no data | Apr 13 | no data |
| 1988 | Apr 27 | Oct 6 | Mar 21 | Oct 13 |
| 1986 | Apr 24 | Nov 13 | Apr 24 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 | Apr 11 | Nov 21 |
| 1984 | Apr 3 | Nov 3 | Mar 13 | Nov 5 |
| 1983 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 1978 | Apr 22 | Oct 15 | Mar 18 | Nov 25 |
| 1977 | Mar 25 | Oct 13 | Mar 23 | Nov 12 |
| 1976 | May 4 | Oct 18 | Mar 17 | Oct 18 |
| 1975 | Apr 14 | Nov 14 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 |
| 1974 | Apr 11 | Oct 3 | Mar 26 | Nov 22 |
| 1973 | Apr 14 | no data | Mar 1 | no data |
| 1972 | Apr 10 | Oct 20 | Apr 9 | Nov 24 |
| 1971 | Apr 11 | Nov 4 | Mar 31 | Nov 7 |
| 1969 | Apr 1 | Oct 18 | Apr 1 | Oct 24 |
| 1968 | Mar 26 | Oct 5 | Mar 25 | Oct 26 |
| 1967 | Mar 23 | Oct 11 | Mar 22 | Oct 20 |
| 1966 | May 10 | Oct 7 | Apr 11 | Oct 26 |
| 1965 | Mar 28 | Oct 13 | Mar 22 | 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.