Beatrice 1N, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00250622, 1985 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,297 ft, 40.299, -96.750. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 23	Oct 10
Earliest	Apr 8 (2006)	Sep 19 (1987)
Latest	May 14 (1997)	Nov 4 (1998)
Trend	1.2 days later per decade	6.1 days later per decade
Years with data	27	25

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 20.

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	May 3	Oct 19	Mar 29	Oct 20
2010	Apr 18	Oct 28	Apr 10	Oct 28
2009	Apr 28	Oct 4	Apr 14	Oct 10
2008	May 5	Oct 16	Apr 15	Oct 27
2007	Apr 16	Oct 23	Apr 9	Oct 28
2006	Apr 8	Oct 12	Mar 26	Oct 12
2005	May 4	Sep 29	May 3	Oct 24
2004	May 4	Oct 2	Apr 12	Oct 17
2003	Apr 10	Oct 17	Apr 10	Oct 26
2002	Apr 26	Oct 7	Apr 5	Oct 13
2001	Apr 19	no data	Apr 18	no data
2000	Apr 22	Oct 6	Apr 13	Oct 6
1999	Apr 19	Oct 4	Apr 4	Oct 5
1998	Apr 18	Nov 4	Apr 17	Nov 11
1997	May 14	Oct 26	Apr 14	Oct 27
1996	Apr 23	Oct 23	Apr 8	Oct 31
1995	May 2	Sep 22	Apr 5	Sep 22
1994	May 2	Oct 24	May 2	Oct 25
1993	Apr 10	Oct 10	Apr 6	Oct 27
1992	May 6	Oct 10	Apr 23	Nov 3
1991	Apr 10	Sep 19	Mar 31	Sep 19
1990	Apr 29	Oct 10	Apr 18	Oct 10
1989	May 7	Sep 23	Apr 20	Sep 23
1988	Apr 28	no data	Apr 15	no data
1987	Apr 12	Sep 19	Apr 6	Oct 3
1986	Apr 23	Oct 13	Apr 22	Nov 5
1985	Apr 10	Sep 30	Apr 9	Sep 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.