Frost history / Diamond 2W, MO
Diamond 2W, MO: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00232240, 1993 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,070 ft, 36.986, -94.355. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 18 | Oct 23 |
| Earliest | Mar 10 (2012) | Sep 22 (1995) |
| Latest | May 3 (2023) | Nov 10 (2016) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 3.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 24 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.
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 | Oct 31 | Apr 8 | Nov 2 |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 16 | Mar 29 | Oct 16 |
| 2023 | May 3 | Oct 30 | Apr 24 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 20 | Oct 14 | Apr 10 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 4 | Apr 23 | Nov 5 |
| 2020 | Apr 19 | Oct 16 | Apr 19 | Oct 16 |
| 2019 | Apr 20 | Oct 12 | Apr 2 | Oct 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 19 | Oct 21 | Apr 11 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Apr 8 | Oct 25 | Mar 16 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | Apr 8 | Nov 10 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 5 | Oct 30 | Mar 6 | Nov 8 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 |
| 2013 | Apr 25 | Oct 22 | Mar 27 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Mar 10 | Oct 7 | Mar 9 | Oct 7 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Oct 21 | Apr 6 | Oct 21 |
| 2010 | Mar 24 | Oct 29 | Mar 5 | Oct 29 |
| 2009 | Apr 12 | Oct 11 | Apr 12 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | Apr 29 | Oct 28 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2005 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Oct 25 |
| 1998 | Apr 22 | Oct 23 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 |
| 1997 | May 1 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 1996 | Apr 16 | Oct 18 | Apr 6 | Nov 3 |
| 1995 | Apr 24 | Sep 22 | Mar 30 | Oct 21 |
| 1994 | Apr 8 | Oct 26 | Apr 7 | Oct 26 |
| 1993 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 30 |
"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.