Frost history / Minnewaukan, ND
Minnewaukan, ND: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00325848, 1992 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,470 ft, 48.078, -99.266. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 13 | Sep 25 |
| Earliest | Apr 20 (1998) | Sep 15 (2007) |
| Latest | May 28 (2008) | Oct 13 (2013) |
| Trend | 1.1 days later per decade | 3.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 1 and the median first fall date is Oct 5.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Apr 28 | no data | Apr 23 | no data |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 6 |
| 2022 | May 21 | Sep 21 | Apr 26 | Oct 6 |
| 2016 | May 15 | Oct 6 | May 15 | Oct 9 |
| 2015 | May 19 | Oct 7 | May 19 | Oct 16 |
| 2014 | May 16 | Oct 4 | May 15 | Oct 4 |
| 2013 | no data | Oct 13 | no data | Oct 19 |
| 2012 | Apr 30 | Sep 21 | Apr 16 | Sep 21 |
| 2011 | May 2 | Sep 15 | May 2 | Sep 15 |
| 2010 | May 9 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 2009 | May 17 | Oct 8 | May 17 | Oct 9 |
| 2008 | May 28 | no data | May 12 | no data |
| 2007 | no data | Sep 15 | no data | Oct 24 |
| 2006 | May 12 | Sep 20 | Apr 9 | Oct 10 |
| 2005 | May 15 | Oct 6 | May 15 | Oct 6 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 1 | no data | Oct 1 |
| 2003 | May 20 | Sep 25 | Apr 18 | Sep 30 |
| 2002 | May 24 | Sep 25 | May 24 | Oct 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 24 | Sep 22 | Apr 23 | Oct 5 |
| 2000 | May 13 | Sep 23 | Apr 20 | Oct 4 |
| 1999 | May 8 | Sep 29 | Apr 18 | Oct 2 |
| 1998 | Apr 20 | Sep 22 | Apr 18 | Oct 13 |
| 1997 | May 16 | Sep 20 | May 15 | Oct 13 |
| 1996 | May 12 | Sep 29 | May 10 | Oct 2 |
| 1995 | May 6 | Sep 20 | Apr 19 | Sep 22 |
| 1994 | May 6 | Oct 9 | May 5 | Oct 24 |
| 1993 | May 16 | Sep 17 | May 1 | Oct 2 |
| 1992 | no data | Sep 22 | no data | Sep 22 |
"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.