Frost history / Winfred 2S, SD
Winfred 2S, SD: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00399355, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,705 ft, 43.971, -97.349. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 6 | Oct 13 |
| Earliest | Apr 18 (2012) | Sep 22 (2012) |
| Latest | May 19 (2015) | Oct 20 (2010) |
| Trend | 2.8 days earlier per decade | 1.2 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 16.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 30 | Oct 19 | Apr 22 | Oct 22 |
| 2024 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 2023 | May 3 | no data | May 3 | no data |
| 2022 | May 3 | Oct 7 | Apr 27 | Oct 7 |
| 2021 | May 12 | Oct 15 | Apr 25 | Nov 1 |
| 2020 | May 11 | Oct 3 | Apr 22 | Oct 15 |
| 2019 | May 10 | Oct 11 | Apr 15 | Oct 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 29 | Oct 4 | Apr 25 | Oct 4 |
| 2017 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 10 |
| 2016 | May 15 | no data | May 15 | no data |
| 2015 | May 19 | Oct 16 | Apr 22 | Oct 17 |
| 2014 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 4 |
| 2013 | May 12 | Oct 16 | May 4 | Oct 18 |
| 2012 | Apr 18 | Sep 22 | Apr 12 | Oct 5 |
| 2011 | May 4 | Oct 18 | Apr 17 | Oct 19 |
| 2010 | May 9 | Oct 20 | Apr 9 | Oct 28 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 16 | no data | Oct 26 |
"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.