Virginia, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00258875, 1988 to 2008, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,545 ft, 40.244, -96.498. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 21	Oct 13
Earliest	Apr 1 (1998)	Sep 19 (1991)
Latest	May 7 (1991)	Nov 4 (1998)
Trend	6.7 days earlier per decade	3.2 days later per decade
Years with data	19	19

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 27.

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
2008	Apr 29	no data	Apr 14	no data
2007	Apr 15	Nov 2	Apr 12	Nov 6
2006	Apr 9	Oct 12	Mar 27	Oct 13
2005	May 3	Oct 7	May 3	Oct 25
2004	Apr 14	Oct 2	Apr 12	Nov 11
2003	Apr 10	Oct 26	Apr 10	Oct 26
2002	Apr 26	Oct 13	Apr 5	Oct 24
2001	Apr 18	Oct 16	Apr 18	Oct 27
2000	Apr 18	Oct 6	Apr 9	Oct 6
1999	no data	Oct 4	no data	Nov 2
1998	Apr 1	Nov 4	Mar 22	Nov 11
1997	Apr 18	Oct 26	Apr 14	Oct 27
1996	Apr 16	Oct 18	Apr 7	Oct 31
1995	Apr 28	Sep 22	Apr 27	Sep 22
1994	May 1	Oct 25	Apr 7	Oct 25
1993	Apr 21	Oct 10	Apr 3	Oct 27
1992	Apr 23	Oct 16	Apr 23	Nov 3
1991	May 7	Sep 19	Mar 31	Oct 6
1990	no data	Oct 10	no data	Nov 5
1989	May 7	no data	Apr 13	no data
1988	Apr 28	Oct 24	Apr 28	Oct 28

"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.