Frost history / Gentryville, MO
Gentryville, MO: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00233162, 2001 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,100 ft, 36.866, -92.361. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 10 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Mar 26 (2010) | Oct 13 (2006) |
| Latest | May 4 (2005) | Nov 14 (2003) |
| Trend | 4.1 days earlier per decade | 0.7 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 10 | 10 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Apr 5 | no data | Mar 17 | no data |
| 2010 | Mar 26 | Oct 29 | Mar 23 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 15 | Oct 18 | Apr 7 | Oct 18 |
| 2008 | Apr 30 | Oct 27 | Apr 30 | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Oct 29 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 |
| 2006 | Apr 9 | Oct 13 | Apr 9 | Oct 20 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 26 | Mar 19 | Oct 26 |
| 2004 | Apr 2 | Nov 13 | Mar 18 | Nov 25 |
| 2003 | Apr 11 | Nov 14 | Mar 31 | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Apr 6 | Oct 14 | Apr 6 | Nov 16 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 17 | 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.