Frost history / Comstock, NE
Comstock, NE: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00251835, 1988 to 2000, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,255 ft, 41.557, -99.237. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 6 | Sep 27 |
| Earliest | Apr 19 (1999) | Sep 13 (1989) |
| Latest | May 16 (1993) | Oct 14 (1997) |
| Trend | 7.9 days earlier per decade | 6.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 11 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 9.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | May 13 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 1999 | Apr 19 | Sep 17 | Apr 19 | Sep 29 |
| 1998 | Apr 23 | Oct 7 | Apr 18 | Nov 4 |
| 1997 | May 14 | Oct 14 | May 13 | Oct 24 |
| 1996 | Apr 30 | Sep 27 | Apr 22 | Oct 9 |
| 1995 | May 2 | Sep 22 | Apr 27 | Sep 22 |
| 1994 | May 1 | Sep 26 | Apr 30 | Oct 9 |
| 1993 | May 16 | Sep 27 | Apr 17 | Oct 9 |
| 1992 | no data | Sep 28 | no data | Oct 9 |
| 1991 | May 6 | Sep 19 | May 6 | Sep 19 |
| 1990 | May 10 | Sep 23 | May 2 | Oct 12 |
| 1989 | May 7 | Sep 13 | May 6 | Sep 23 |
| 1988 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 4 |
"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.