Frost history / South Milwaukee Wwtp, WI
South Milwaukee Wwtp, WI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00477964, 2006 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 650 ft, 42.901, -87.849. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 21 | Oct 30 |
| Earliest | Mar 29 (2017) | Oct 12 (2006) |
| Latest | May 10 (2020) | Nov 21 (2024) |
| Trend | 2.8 days later per decade | 7.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 19 | 19 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.
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 16 | Nov 6 | Apr 9 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 25 | Nov 21 | Mar 29 | Nov 26 |
| 2023 | Apr 18 | Oct 30 | Mar 30 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 28 | Nov 13 | Mar 29 | Nov 14 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 2 | Apr 22 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 24 | Apr 17 | Oct 31 |
| 2019 | Apr 28 | Oct 30 | Apr 1 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 29 | Oct 13 | Apr 18 | Oct 21 |
| 2017 | Mar 29 | Nov 6 | Mar 23 | Nov 8 |
| 2016 | Apr 12 | Nov 12 | Apr 10 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Apr 24 | Oct 18 | Apr 4 | Nov 14 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 21 | Oct 22 | Apr 20 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 12 | Oct 27 | Mar 10 | Nov 13 |
| 2011 | Apr 21 | Oct 30 | Apr 1 | Nov 17 |
| 2010 | Apr 28 | Oct 29 | Mar 27 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 18 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 2008 | Apr 30 | Oct 28 | Apr 3 | Nov 10 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | no data | Oct 12 | no data | Oct 25 |
"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.