Frost history / Carthage, MO
Carthage, MO: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00231356, 1951 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 978 ft, 37.177, -94.305. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 12 | Oct 20 |
| Earliest | Mar 10 (2012) | Oct 1 (1958) |
| Latest | May 12 (1960) | Nov 10 (1977) |
| Trend | 2.4 days earlier per decade | 0.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 38 | 35 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | May 3 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 2012 | Mar 10 | Oct 7 | Mar 9 | Oct 28 |
| 2011 | Apr 5 | Oct 20 | Mar 10 | Nov 17 |
| 2010 | Mar 29 | Oct 29 | Mar 4 | Oct 29 |
| 2009 | Apr 12 | Oct 18 | Apr 7 | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | Apr 14 | Oct 27 | Apr 14 | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Mar 26 | Oct 13 | Mar 25 | Nov 2 |
| 2005 | Apr 2 | Oct 25 | Mar 28 | Oct 25 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 5 | no data | Nov 29 |
| 2003 | Apr 11 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 1988 | Apr 19 | Oct 29 | Mar 19 | Nov 17 |
| 1980 | Apr 12 | no data | Mar 14 | no data |
| 1979 | Apr 9 | no data | Apr 6 | no data |
| 1978 | Apr 21 | Nov 7 | Mar 26 | Nov 28 |
| 1977 | Apr 1 | Nov 10 | Mar 23 | Nov 21 |
| 1976 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 17 |
| 1975 | Apr 5 | no data | Apr 4 | no data |
| 1974 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 1972 | Apr 8 | no data | Apr 4 | no data |
| 1971 | Apr 14 | Oct 31 | Mar 26 | Nov 7 |
| 1970 | Apr 5 | Oct 10 | Apr 2 | Nov 15 |
| 1969 | Mar 31 | Oct 14 | Mar 30 | Oct 28 |
| 1968 | Apr 6 | Oct 25 | Apr 5 | Oct 25 |
| 1967 | Mar 21 | Oct 19 | Mar 18 | Nov 4 |
| 1966 | May 2 | Oct 16 | Apr 21 | Oct 16 |
| 1965 | Mar 31 | Oct 12 | Mar 27 | Nov 29 |
| 1964 | Apr 9 | Oct 6 | Mar 31 | Oct 9 |
| 1963 | May 1 | Oct 29 | May 1 | Oct 29 |
| 1962 | Apr 16 | Oct 25 | Apr 9 | Nov 5 |
| 1961 | no data | Oct 20 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 1960 | May 12 | Oct 20 | May 1 | Oct 20 |
| 1959 | Apr 22 | Oct 18 | Apr 14 | Nov 5 |
| 1958 | Apr 12 | Oct 1 | Mar 28 | Oct 27 |
| 1957 | Apr 14 | Oct 19 | Apr 14 | Oct 26 |
| 1956 | Apr 24 | Oct 26 | Apr 23 | Nov 9 |
| 1955 | Apr 8 | Oct 18 | Mar 29 | Nov 3 |
| 1954 | May 4 | Oct 30 | Apr 1 | Nov 2 |
| 1953 | Apr 20 | Oct 29 | Apr 18 | Nov 9 |
| 1952 | Apr 16 | Oct 7 | Mar 27 | Oct 7 |
| 1951 | Apr 23 | Nov 1 | Apr 17 | Nov 1 |
"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.