Surprise, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00258328, 1987 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,545 ft, 41.104, -97.309. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 28	Oct 11
Earliest	Apr 9 (2006)	Sep 15 (1993)
Latest	May 17 (2014)	Oct 26 (2007)
Trend	1.3 days later per decade	3.6 days later per decade
Years with data	37	38

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 17 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.

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	no data	Oct 22	no data	Oct 23
2024	Apr 24	Oct 14	Apr 21	Oct 14
2023	May 4	Oct 7	Apr 23	Oct 28
2022	Apr 27	Oct 8	Apr 27	Oct 8
2021	May 8	Oct 14	Apr 22	Oct 14
2020	Apr 21	Oct 2	Apr 18	Oct 24
2019	May 11	Oct 12	Apr 14	Oct 12
2018	Apr 28	Oct 11	Apr 20	Oct 15
2017	May 2	Oct 11	Apr 28	Oct 11
2016	Apr 13	Oct 13	Apr 13	Oct 13
2015	Apr 24	Oct 16	Apr 23	Oct 30
2014	May 17	Oct 11	Apr 15	Oct 29
2013	May 4	Oct 17	Apr 25	Oct 21
2012	Apr 23	Sep 23	Mar 10	Oct 6
2011	May 4	Oct 19	Mar 29	Oct 20
2010	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 9	Oct 28
2009	Apr 29	Oct 4	Apr 15	Oct 10
2008	Apr 28	Oct 16	Apr 15	Oct 27
2007	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 9	Oct 28
2006	Apr 9	Oct 12	Mar 26	Oct 12
2005	May 3	Sep 29	Apr 2	Oct 8
2004	May 3	Oct 2	Apr 13	Nov 4
2003	Apr 22	Oct 17	Apr 9	Oct 26
2002	May 2	Oct 13	Apr 25	Oct 31
2001	Apr 24	Sep 25	Apr 17	Oct 6
2000	Apr 21	Sep 25	Apr 21	Oct 6
1999	Apr 18	Sep 21	Apr 18	Oct 17
1998	Apr 18	Oct 21	Apr 17	Nov 6
1997	May 13	Oct 14	May 13	Oct 26
1996	Apr 30	Oct 8	Apr 16	Oct 24
1995	May 2	Sep 22	Apr 13	Sep 22
1994	no data	Oct 23	no data	Oct 25
1993	Apr 21	Sep 15	Apr 5	Oct 9
1992	May 6	Oct 9	Apr 27	Oct 17
1991	Apr 11	Sep 19	Mar 31	Sep 19
1990	May 1	Oct 10	May 1	Oct 10
1989	May 7	Sep 23	May 1	Oct 18
1988	Apr 28	Oct 4	Apr 24	Oct 28
1987	Apr 12	no data	Apr 6	no data

"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.