Frost history / Chappell, NE
Chappell, NE: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00251602, 2001 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,710 ft, 41.094, -102.472. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 11 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Apr 9 (2012) | Sep 9 (2020) |
| Latest | May 25 (2001) | Oct 16 (2007) |
| Trend | 0.8 days earlier per decade | 0.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 18 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 26 and the median first fall date is Oct 14.
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 | May 3 | no data | Apr 20 | no data |
| 2024 | May 5 | Oct 1 | May 4 | Oct 1 |
| 2023 | May 3 | Oct 7 | May 2 | Oct 7 |
| 2022 | May 22 | Oct 8 | May 4 | Oct 17 |
| 2021 | May 12 | Oct 14 | Apr 25 | Oct 15 |
| 2020 | May 11 | Sep 9 | Apr 19 | Oct 16 |
| 2019 | May 23 | Oct 3 | May 10 | Oct 3 |
| 2018 | Apr 27 | no data | Apr 25 | no data |
| 2017 | May 24 | Oct 9 | Apr 26 | Oct 10 |
| 2016 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Nov 8 |
| 2015 | May 11 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 2014 | May 15 | Sep 12 | May 2 | Oct 28 |
| 2013 | May 5 | Oct 5 | May 5 | Oct 16 |
| 2012 | Apr 9 | no data | Mar 21 | no data |
| 2011 | May 15 | no data | May 3 | no data |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Oct 16 | Apr 14 | Oct 16 |
| 2003 | May 20 | Oct 1 | Apr 9 | Oct 2 |
| 2002 | May 10 | Sep 22 | May 9 | Oct 13 |
| 2001 | May 25 | Oct 5 | Apr 23 | Oct 6 |
"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.