Kearney 3E, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00234382, 2000 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 840 ft, 39.367, -94.329. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 18	Oct 15
Earliest	Mar 30 (2010)	Oct 3 (2011)
Latest	May 9 (2020)	Nov 2 (2021)
Trend	2.8 days later per decade	3.5 days later per decade
Years with data	18	19

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 23.

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
2024	Apr 6	Oct 16	Mar 28	Oct 16
2023	Apr 24	Oct 28	Apr 23	Oct 30
2022	Apr 27	Oct 8	Apr 26	Oct 8
2021	Apr 23	Nov 2	Apr 23	Nov 3
2020	May 9	Oct 16	Apr 14	Oct 16
2019	Apr 13	Oct 12	Apr 13	Oct 31
2018	Apr 20	Oct 15	Apr 20	Oct 16
2017	Apr 8	Oct 28	Mar 16	Oct 28
2013	no data	Oct 23	no data	Oct 23
2012	Apr 22	Oct 6	Mar 9	Oct 7
2011	May 3	Oct 3	Apr 6	Oct 21
2010	Mar 30	Oct 29	Mar 23	Oct 29
2007	Apr 17	Oct 25	Apr 10	Nov 1
2006	Apr 10	Oct 12	Apr 10	Oct 13
2005	no data	Oct 9	no data	Oct 25
2004	May 3	no data	Apr 13	no data
2003	Apr 11	Oct 26	Apr 11	Nov 6
2002	Apr 6	Oct 13	Apr 6	Oct 14
2001	Apr 19	Oct 6	Apr 19	Oct 27
2000	Apr 13	Oct 7	Apr 13	Oct 7

"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.