Frost history / Lower St Anthony Falls, MN
Lower St Anthony Falls, MN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00214884, 1992 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 754 ft, 44.978, -93.247. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 21 | Oct 14 |
| Earliest | Mar 26 (2010) | Sep 22 (1995) |
| Latest | May 15 (1997) | Nov 14 (2015) |
| Trend | 1.8 days earlier per decade | 5.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 29 | 31 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 9 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 2024 | Apr 21 | Oct 14 | Mar 30 | Nov 21 |
| 2023 | Apr 24 | Oct 27 | Apr 9 | Oct 27 |
| 2022 | Apr 28 | Oct 15 | Apr 27 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Oct 24 | Apr 2 | Nov 15 |
| 2020 | Apr 21 | Oct 19 | Apr 18 | Oct 24 |
| 2019 | Apr 16 | Oct 25 | Apr 12 | Oct 30 |
| 2018 | Apr 21 | Oct 12 | Apr 20 | Oct 21 |
| 2017 | Apr 28 | Oct 28 | Mar 23 | Nov 1 |
| 2016 | Apr 13 | Oct 13 | Apr 13 | Oct 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 25 | Nov 14 | Apr 4 | Nov 20 |
| 2014 | Apr 25 | Oct 31 | Apr 19 | Oct 31 |
| 2013 | May 4 | Oct 20 | Apr 25 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 12 | Oct 7 | Mar 10 | Oct 8 |
| 2011 | Apr 22 | Oct 22 | Mar 31 | Nov 16 |
| 2010 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 26 | no data |
| 2009 | Apr 10 | Oct 10 | Apr 7 | Oct 10 |
| 2008 | Apr 29 | Oct 28 | Apr 29 | Nov 9 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Oct 30 | Apr 13 | Oct 30 |
| 2006 | Apr 8 | Oct 11 | Mar 22 | Oct 12 |
| 2005 | May 13 | Oct 7 | Apr 24 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 2 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2003 | Apr 17 | Oct 2 | Apr 9 | Oct 2 |
| 2002 | Apr 26 | no data | Apr 26 | no data |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Nov 12 |
| 2000 | Apr 21 | Oct 6 | Apr 16 | Oct 9 |
| 1999 | Apr 19 | Oct 2 | Mar 26 | Oct 24 |
| 1998 | Apr 16 | Oct 13 | Mar 24 | Nov 3 |
| 1997 | May 15 | Oct 14 | Apr 17 | Oct 22 |
| 1996 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 1995 | no data | Sep 22 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 1994 | Apr 30 | Oct 26 | Apr 29 | Nov 15 |
| 1993 | Apr 20 | Oct 2 | Apr 13 | Oct 9 |
| 1992 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Oct 17 |
"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.