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Frost history / Eminence 1 N, MO

Eminence 1 N, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00232619, 2007 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 640 ft, 37.156, -91.360. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 20Oct 21
EarliestApr 6 (2015)Oct 4 (2010)
LatestMay 5 (2013)Nov 6 (2016)
Trend11.8 days earlier per decade3.4 days later per decade
Years with data1112

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1520102008: Apr 292009: Apr 212010: Apr 182011: Apr 172012: Apr 232013: May 52014: May 12015: Apr 62016: Apr 132017: Apr 72018: Apr 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120102007: Oct 292008: Oct 252009: Oct 172010: Oct 42011: Oct 202012: Oct 92013: Oct 222014: Oct 302015: Oct 172016: Nov 62017: Oct 182018: Oct 21

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
2018Apr 20Oct 21Apr 20Oct 21
2017Apr 7Oct 18Mar 16Oct 28
2016Apr 13Nov 6Mar 28Nov 10
2015Apr 6Oct 17Apr 5Oct 30
2014May 1Oct 30Apr 16Nov 1
2013May 5Oct 22Apr 25Oct 25
2012Apr 23Oct 9Apr 12Oct 28
2011Apr 17Oct 20Apr 5Oct 21
2010Apr 18Oct 4Mar 6Oct 29
2009Apr 21Oct 17Apr 8Nov 5
2008Apr 29Oct 25Apr 29Oct 28
2007no dataOct 29no dataNov 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.