Last Frost Day

Frost history / Marcell 5NE, MN

Marcell 5NE, MN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00215175, 1989 to 2005, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,387 ft, 47.631, -93.652. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 12Oct 2
EarliestApr 28 (2001)Sep 15 (1993)
LatestJun 1 (2003)Oct 11 (1992)
Trend8.0 days later per decade5.8 days later per decade
Years with data1417

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 6 and the median first fall date is Oct 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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14199020001990: May 111992: May 251993: May 41994: May 101995: May 61996: May 131997: May 211998: May 101999: May 92001: Apr 282002: May 252003: Jun 12004: May 282005: May 17

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27199020001989: Sep 221990: Sep 231991: Sep 201992: Oct 111993: Sep 151994: Oct 101995: Sep 201996: Oct 21997: Oct 101998: Oct 21999: Oct 22000: Oct 42001: Sep 242002: Oct 32003: Sep 262004: Oct 42005: Oct 7

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2005May 17Oct 7May 16Oct 7
2004May 28Oct 4May 15Oct 5
2003Jun 1Sep 26Jun 1Oct 1
2002May 25Oct 3May 20Oct 7
2001Apr 28Sep 24Apr 25Oct 6
2000no dataOct 4no dataOct 6
1999May 9Oct 2Apr 24Oct 2
1998May 10Oct 2Apr 18Oct 2
1997May 21Oct 10May 13Oct 16
1996May 13Oct 2May 12Oct 7
1995May 6Sep 20Apr 25Sep 22
1994May 10Oct 10May 6Oct 31
1993May 4Sep 15Apr 26Oct 2
1992May 25Oct 11May 5Oct 14
1991no dataSep 20no dataOct 15
1990May 11Sep 23May 2Oct 7
1989no dataSep 22no dataOct 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.