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Frost history / Versailles 3 Nnw, KY

Versailles 3 Nnw, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00063838, 2003 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 891 ft, 38.094, -84.746. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 29
EarliestMar 27 (2010)Oct 3 (2003)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 21 (2024)
Trend5.9 days later per decade6.2 days later per decade
Years with data2122

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 29 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202004: Apr 52005: Mar 292006: Apr 92007: Apr 102008: Apr 152009: Apr 82010: Mar 272011: May 52012: Apr 122013: Apr 32014: Apr 162015: Mar 292016: Apr 102017: Apr 82018: Apr 172019: Apr 22020: May 92021: Apr 232022: Apr 102023: Apr 242024: Apr 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202003: Oct 32004: Nov 92005: Oct 282006: Oct 132007: Nov 32008: Oct 292009: Oct 182010: Nov 62011: Oct 292012: Oct 112013: Oct 252014: Nov 12015: Oct 182016: Nov 122017: Oct 292018: Oct 212019: Nov 12020: Oct 312021: Nov 32022: Oct 202023: Oct 312024: Nov 21

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 6Nov 21Mar 24Nov 29
2023Apr 24Oct 31Mar 29Nov 1
2022Apr 10Oct 20Apr 2Nov 14
2021Apr 23Nov 3Apr 2Nov 3
2020May 9Oct 31Apr 16Nov 2
2019Apr 2Nov 1Apr 1Nov 1
2018Apr 17Oct 21Apr 11Nov 10
2017Apr 8Oct 29Mar 23Nov 10
2016Apr 10Nov 12Apr 9Nov 13
2015Mar 29Oct 18Mar 29Nov 22
2014Apr 16Nov 1Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 3Oct 25Apr 3Oct 25
2012Apr 12Oct 11Mar 10Nov 5
2011May 5Oct 29Feb 23Oct 29
2010Mar 27Nov 6Mar 27Nov 6
2009Apr 8Oct 18Mar 20Dec 1
2008Apr 15Oct 29Mar 25Oct 30
2007Apr 10Nov 3Apr 9Nov 16
2006Apr 9Oct 13Apr 9Oct 25
2005Mar 29Oct 28Mar 15Oct 29
2004Apr 5Nov 9Mar 23Nov 14
2003no dataOct 3no dataNov 9

"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.