Last Frost Day

Frost history / St Charles Co Ap, MO

St Charles Co Ap, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053904, 1997 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 436 ft, 38.929, -90.428. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 9Oct 18
EarliestMar 19 (2017)Oct 2 (2003)
LatestApr 23 (2015)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend2.1 days later per decade2.2 days later per decade
Years with data2525

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 9.

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 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 302000201020201998: Apr 51999: Mar 272000: Apr 92001: Apr 182002: Apr 52003: Apr 112004: Apr 142005: Mar 202006: Mar 262007: Apr 132008: Apr 152009: Apr 92010: Mar 262011: Apr 12012: Apr 122013: Apr 202014: Apr 152015: Apr 232016: Apr 92017: Mar 192018: Apr 172020: Apr 182021: Apr 222022: Mar 272024: Apr 5

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201997: Oct 181999: Oct 182000: Oct 102001: Oct 172003: Oct 22004: Nov 52005: Oct 262006: Oct 122007: Oct 282008: Oct 282009: Oct 172010: Oct 292011: Oct 282012: Oct 82013: Oct 222014: Nov 12015: Oct 182016: Nov 102017: Oct 292018: Oct 162020: Oct 52021: Nov 32022: Oct 142023: Oct 302024: Oct 16

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
2024Apr 5Oct 16Mar 19Nov 29
2023no dataOct 30no dataOct 31
2022Mar 27Oct 14Mar 12Oct 20
2021Apr 22Nov 3Feb 21Nov 19
2020Apr 18Oct 5Feb 28Oct 16
2018Apr 17Oct 16Apr 8Oct 21
2017Mar 19Oct 29Mar 16Oct 29
2016Apr 9Nov 10Mar 6Nov 13
2015Apr 23Oct 18Mar 7Nov 21
2014Apr 15Nov 1Mar 30Nov 2
2013Apr 20Oct 22Mar 27Oct 27
2012Apr 12Oct 8Mar 10Nov 13
2011Apr 1Oct 28Mar 11Nov 11
2010Mar 26Oct 29Mar 6Oct 29
2009Apr 9Oct 17Mar 14Dec 3
2008Apr 15Oct 28Mar 24Nov 9
2007Apr 13Oct 28Apr 9Nov 2
2006Mar 26Oct 12Mar 26Oct 24
2005Mar 20Oct 26Mar 20Nov 16
2004Apr 14Nov 5Mar 22Nov 25
2003Apr 11Oct 2Mar 31Nov 24
2002Apr 5no dataApr 5no data
2001Apr 18Oct 17Apr 1Nov 9
2000Apr 9Oct 10Mar 17Nov 14
1999Mar 27Oct 18Mar 27Oct 24
1998Apr 5no dataMar 15no data
1997no dataOct 18no dataOct 28

"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.