Last Frost Day

Frost history / Weston 3NW, NE

Weston 3NW, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00259193, 2004 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,365 ft, 41.221, -96.778. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 22Oct 11
EarliestApr 9 (2010)Sep 29 (2005)
LatestMay 18 (2014)Oct 29 (2015)
Trend3.8 days earlier per decade4.0 days later per decade
Years with data1616

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 18.

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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202005: May 32006: Apr 272007: Apr 142008: Apr 302009: Apr 152010: Apr 92011: May 172012: Apr 122013: May 42014: May 182015: Apr 232016: Apr 132017: Apr 272018: Apr 202019: Apr 152020: Apr 18

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202004: Oct 22005: Sep 292006: Oct 122007: Oct 252008: Oct 272009: Oct 42010: Oct 42011: Oct 192012: Oct 62013: Oct 212014: Oct 112015: Oct 292016: Oct 132017: Oct 112018: Oct 122019: Oct 11

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2020Apr 18no dataApr 18no data
2019Apr 15Oct 11Apr 15Oct 12
2018Apr 20Oct 12Apr 19Oct 15
2017Apr 27Oct 11Apr 11Oct 27
2016Apr 13Oct 13Apr 12Oct 13
2015Apr 23Oct 29Apr 22Oct 30
2014May 18Oct 11Apr 16Oct 31
2013May 4Oct 21Apr 25Oct 23
2012Apr 12Oct 6Mar 10Oct 7
2011May 17Oct 19Apr 5Oct 21
2010Apr 9Oct 4Apr 9Nov 2
2009Apr 15Oct 4Apr 12Oct 10
2008Apr 30Oct 27Apr 15Oct 28
2007Apr 14Oct 25Apr 10Nov 6
2006Apr 27Oct 12Mar 27Oct 12
2005May 3Sep 29Apr 3Oct 7
2004no dataOct 2no dataOct 2

"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.