Frost history / Lynch, NE
Lynch, NE: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00255040, 1985 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,411 ft, 42.830, -98.471. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 12 | Oct 2 |
| Earliest | Apr 19 (1999) | Sep 13 (1989) |
| Latest | Jun 15 (1989) | Oct 16 (2015) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 4.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 33 | 36 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 10.
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 | May 5 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 2022 | May 23 | Oct 7 | Apr 27 | Oct 7 |
| 2021 | May 13 | Oct 15 | May 12 | Nov 1 |
| 2020 | May 12 | Oct 2 | May 11 | Oct 15 |
| 2017 | May 1 | Oct 10 | Apr 27 | Oct 11 |
| 2016 | May 15 | Oct 7 | Apr 12 | Oct 13 |
| 2015 | May 19 | Oct 16 | Apr 23 | Oct 16 |
| 2014 | May 18 | Oct 4 | May 16 | Oct 18 |
| 2013 | May 4 | Oct 13 | May 4 | Oct 18 |
| 2012 | Apr 23 | Sep 23 | Apr 12 | Sep 23 |
| 2011 | no data | Sep 15 | no data | Oct 19 |
| 2010 | May 14 | Oct 3 | Apr 18 | Oct 28 |
| 2009 | no data | Sep 29 | no data | Oct 9 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 14 | no data | Oct 25 |
| 2007 | May 17 | Oct 11 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 |
| 2006 | May 12 | Oct 12 | Apr 27 | Oct 12 |
| 2005 | May 15 | Oct 7 | May 4 | Oct 7 |
| 2004 | May 15 | Oct 2 | May 14 | Oct 2 |
| 2003 | May 21 | Sep 19 | Apr 10 | Oct 1 |
| 2002 | May 24 | Sep 27 | May 18 | Oct 13 |
| 2001 | Apr 23 | Sep 24 | Apr 17 | Oct 6 |
| 2000 | Apr 22 | Sep 25 | Apr 22 | Sep 25 |
| 1999 | Apr 19 | Sep 21 | Apr 19 | Oct 2 |
| 1998 | Apr 29 | Oct 1 | Apr 18 | Nov 6 |
| 1997 | May 20 | Oct 14 | May 13 | Oct 14 |
| 1996 | Apr 30 | Sep 28 | Apr 30 | Oct 10 |
| 1995 | May 5 | Sep 22 | Apr 27 | Sep 22 |
| 1994 | Apr 30 | no data | Apr 30 | no data |
| 1993 | May 5 | Sep 15 | Apr 22 | Oct 9 |
| 1992 | May 29 | Sep 28 | May 28 | Sep 28 |
| 1991 | May 7 | Sep 19 | May 2 | Sep 19 |
| 1990 | May 28 | Sep 23 | May 3 | Sep 23 |
| 1989 | Jun 15 | Sep 13 | May 7 | Sep 23 |
| 1988 | May 5 | Oct 4 | Apr 29 | Oct 4 |
| 1987 | Apr 24 | Oct 3 | Apr 12 | Oct 3 |
| 1986 | May 19 | Oct 6 | Apr 22 | Oct 13 |
| 1985 | no data | Sep 24 | no data | Oct 10 |
"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.