Frost history / Wahoo, NE
Wahoo, NE: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00258905, 1963 to 2003, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,220 ft, 41.221, -96.622. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 28 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Apr 6 (1977) | Sep 3 (1974) |
| Latest | May 15 (1983) | Nov 6 (1998) |
| Trend | 0.7 days earlier per decade | 1.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 38 | 38 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 and the median first fall date is Oct 13.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Apr 22 | Sep 28 | Apr 9 | Oct 1 |
| 2002 | Apr 23 | Oct 7 | Apr 23 | Oct 13 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 6 | Apr 18 | Oct 26 |
| 2000 | Apr 22 | Oct 6 | Apr 9 | Oct 6 |
| 1999 | Apr 19 | Oct 4 | Apr 18 | Oct 20 |
| 1998 | Apr 18 | Nov 6 | Apr 3 | Nov 6 |
| 1997 | May 14 | Oct 14 | May 14 | Oct 26 |
| 1996 | Apr 24 | Oct 23 | Apr 10 | Oct 31 |
| 1995 | May 3 | Sep 22 | Apr 5 | Sep 22 |
| 1994 | May 1 | Oct 25 | May 1 | Oct 26 |
| 1993 | Apr 19 | Sep 15 | Apr 6 | Oct 10 |
| 1992 | May 7 | Oct 11 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 |
| 1991 | Apr 11 | Sep 19 | Mar 31 | Sep 19 |
| 1990 | May 2 | Oct 10 | Apr 18 | Oct 10 |
| 1989 | May 7 | Sep 23 | Apr 16 | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Apr 29 | Oct 4 | Apr 20 | Oct 5 |
| 1987 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 3 |
| 1986 | Apr 22 | Oct 13 | Apr 22 | Oct 13 |
| 1985 | Apr 14 | Oct 1 | Apr 14 | Oct 1 |
| 1984 | May 1 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 1983 | May 15 | no data | Apr 15 | no data |
| 1982 | Apr 22 | Oct 14 | Apr 22 | Oct 21 |
| 1981 | Apr 15 | Oct 2 | Apr 15 | Oct 19 |
| 1980 | May 9 | Sep 26 | May 8 | Oct 12 |
| 1979 | Apr 28 | Oct 13 | Apr 6 | Oct 13 |
| 1978 | May 2 | Oct 7 | Apr 21 | Oct 7 |
| 1977 | Apr 6 | Oct 9 | Apr 6 | Oct 12 |
| 1976 | May 3 | Sep 29 | May 3 | Oct 8 |
| 1975 | May 1 | Sep 25 | Apr 20 | Oct 2 |
| 1974 | Apr 17 | Sep 3 | Apr 8 | Oct 1 |
| 1972 | Apr 24 | Sep 30 | Apr 9 | Oct 7 |
| 1971 | May 3 | Sep 23 | Apr 6 | Oct 31 |
| 1970 | May 2 | Oct 9 | Apr 10 | Oct 29 |
| 1969 | Apr 29 | Oct 14 | Mar 31 | Oct 14 |
| 1968 | Apr 24 | Oct 4 | Apr 9 | Nov 3 |
| 1967 | May 4 | Sep 28 | May 2 | Oct 20 |
| 1966 | May 9 | Oct 5 | May 1 | Oct 16 |
| 1965 | Apr 28 | Sep 24 | Mar 30 | Sep 24 |
| 1964 | Apr 9 | Oct 5 | Apr 4 | Oct 9 |
| 1963 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Oct 29 |
"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.