Wayne, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00259045, 1989 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,465 ft, 42.236, -97.011. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 30	Oct 7
Earliest	Apr 11 (1991)	Sep 15 (1993)
Latest	May 18 (2002)	Nov 4 (1998)
Trend	2.3 days later per decade	2.4 days later per decade
Years with data	28	29

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 18 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
2019	no data	Oct 11	no data	Oct 12
2018	Apr 23	no data	Apr 18	no data
2017	Apr 28	Oct 11	Apr 12	Oct 11
2016	no data	Oct 13	no data	Oct 13
2015	Apr 30	no data	Apr 24	no data
2014	May 17	Oct 4	May 17	Oct 11
2013	May 13	Oct 13	May 12	Oct 22
2012	Apr 24	Sep 23	Apr 12	Oct 6
2011	May 4	Sep 15	May 4	Oct 20
2010	May 9	Oct 17	Apr 18	Oct 29
2009	Apr 15	Oct 4	Apr 15	Oct 10
2008	Apr 29	Oct 16	Apr 29	Oct 28
2007	Apr 15	Oct 11	Apr 15	Nov 1
2006	Apr 27	Oct 12	Apr 27	Oct 12
2005	May 4	Oct 7	May 4	Oct 7
2004	May 15	Oct 2	Apr 14	Oct 2
2003	Apr 23	Sep 30	Apr 10	Oct 26
2002	May 18	Oct 7	Apr 23	Oct 13
2001	Apr 24	Oct 6	Apr 18	Oct 6
2000	Apr 22	Sep 26	Apr 22	Oct 6
1999	Apr 19	Sep 21	Apr 19	Oct 17
1998	Apr 18	Nov 4	Apr 18	Nov 4
1997	May 14	Oct 14	May 14	Oct 26
1996	May 1	Oct 3	May 1	Oct 28
1995	May 3	Sep 22	Apr 10	Oct 21
1994	Apr 30	Oct 25	Apr 10	Oct 26
1993	Apr 14	Sep 15	Apr 6	Oct 10
1992	May 3	Oct 11	Apr 28	Oct 17
1991	Apr 11	Sep 19	Mar 31	Sep 19
1990	May 2	Oct 10	Apr 28	Oct 10
1989	no data	Sep 23	no data	Oct 18

"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.