Frost history / Medicine Bow, WY
Medicine Bow, WY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00486120, 1951 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 6,635 ft, 41.897, -106.206. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jun 5 | Sep 5 |
| Earliest | May 13 (1961) | Aug 19 (1954) |
| Latest | Jul 21 (1999) | Sep 28 (1998) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 50 | 49 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 16 and the median first fall date is Sep 14.
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.
Chart
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Jun 4 | Sep 20 | May 7 | Sep 20 |
| 2011 | Jun 10 | Sep 21 | May 19 | Sep 22 |
| 2010 | May 31 | Sep 3 | May 15 | Sep 3 |
| 2008 | no data | Sep 2 | no data | Oct 12 |
| 2006 | May 30 | Sep 3 | May 30 | Sep 25 |
| 2005 | Jun 11 | Aug 31 | May 12 | Sep 13 |
| 2004 | Jun 1 | Aug 28 | May 14 | Sep 16 |
| 2003 | Jun 8 | Sep 13 | May 20 | Sep 18 |
| 2002 | May 25 | Sep 23 | May 25 | Sep 23 |
| 2001 | Jun 13 | Sep 9 | May 21 | Sep 10 |
| 2000 | Jun 2 | Sep 7 | May 13 | Sep 7 |
| 1999 | Jul 21 | Sep 5 | Jul 21 | Sep 9 |
| 1998 | Jun 7 | Sep 28 | Jun 7 | Oct 5 |
| 1997 | May 20 | Sep 24 | May 12 | Oct 10 |
| 1996 | Jun 2 | Sep 7 | May 21 | Sep 7 |
| 1995 | Jun 11 | no data | May 14 | no data |
| 1994 | Jun 10 | Sep 5 | May 2 | Sep 16 |
| 1993 | Jul 7 | no data | May 11 | no data |
| 1992 | May 17 | Aug 27 | May 4 | Aug 27 |
| 1991 | May 14 | Sep 15 | May 5 | Sep 16 |
| 1990 | Jun 22 | Sep 22 | May 17 | Sep 23 |
| 1989 | Jun 22 | Aug 26 | Jun 22 | Sep 14 |
| 1988 | May 23 | Sep 4 | May 4 | Sep 29 |
| 1987 | Jun 4 | Sep 5 | Apr 24 | Sep 18 |
| 1986 | no data | Sep 8 | no data | Sep 17 |
| 1981 | May 20 | no data | May 14 | no data |
| 1980 | no data | Aug 20 | no data | Sep 1 |
| 1979 | no data | Sep 13 | no data | Sep 14 |
| 1978 | Jun 2 | no data | May 9 | no data |
| 1977 | May 29 | Sep 9 | May 29 | Sep 10 |
| 1976 | Jun 30 | Aug 27 | Jun 14 | Aug 28 |
| 1975 | Jun 19 | Sep 1 | Jun 11 | Sep 19 |
| 1974 | no data | Aug 22 | no data | Sep 3 |
| 1973 | Jul 21 | no data | Jun 4 | no data |
| 1972 | Jun 19 | Sep 13 | May 4 | Sep 21 |
| 1971 | May 30 | Sep 15 | May 19 | Sep 15 |
| 1970 | Jun 13 | Sep 10 | Jun 5 | Sep 10 |
| 1969 | Jun 13 | Sep 23 | Jun 2 | Oct 3 |
| 1968 | Jul 1 | no data | May 27 | no data |
| 1966 | Jun 13 | Aug 25 | Jun 6 | Oct 1 |
| 1965 | Jun 6 | Sep 1 | Jun 6 | Sep 1 |
| 1964 | Jun 3 | Aug 20 | Jun 2 | Aug 30 |
| 1963 | May 26 | Sep 25 | May 20 | Sep 25 |
| 1962 | Jun 16 | Aug 28 | May 15 | Sep 9 |
| 1961 | May 13 | Sep 11 | May 8 | Sep 14 |
| 1960 | Jun 23 | Aug 19 | May 7 | Sep 9 |
| 1959 | Jun 2 | Sep 2 | May 7 | Sep 10 |
| 1958 | May 16 | Sep 16 | May 5 | Sep 16 |
| 1957 | Jun 23 | Sep 11 | May 2 | Sep 11 |
| 1956 | May 17 | Aug 31 | May 14 | Sep 1 |
| 1955 | Jun 2 | Sep 12 | May 20 | Sep 28 |
| 1954 | Jun 29 | Aug 19 | Jun 8 | Sep 19 |
| 1953 | Jun 25 | Sep 3 | May 6 | Sep 5 |
| 1952 | May 27 | Sep 2 | May 11 | Sep 2 |
| 1951 | Jun 4 | Sep 10 | Jun 3 | Sep 13 |
"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.