Last Frost Day

Frost history / Carbondale Southern Il Ap, IL

Carbondale Southern Il Ap, IL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00093810, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 406 ft, 37.780, -89.250. 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 25 (2013)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend0.9 days later per decade4.7 days later per decade
Years with data2627

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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 302000201020201999: Mar 272000: Apr 222001: Apr 182002: Apr 52003: Mar 312004: Apr 52005: Mar 212006: Apr 92007: Apr 132008: Apr 152009: Apr 92010: Mar 262011: Apr 12012: Apr 122013: Apr 252014: Apr 172015: Mar 292016: Apr 92017: Mar 192018: Apr 172019: Apr 152020: Apr 182021: Apr 222022: Apr 32023: Mar 292024: Apr 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201998: Oct 231999: Oct 52000: Oct 82001: Oct 172002: Oct 142003: Oct 22004: Oct 52005: Oct 262006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 282009: Oct 182010: Oct 42011: Oct 292012: Oct 112013: Oct 242014: Oct 302015: Oct 172016: Nov 102017: Oct 292018: Oct 212019: Oct 312020: Oct 52021: Nov 32022: Oct 82023: 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 6Oct 16Mar 19Nov 29
2023Mar 29Oct 30Mar 20Oct 31
2022Apr 3Oct 8Mar 13Oct 19
2021Apr 22Nov 3Apr 2Nov 4
2020Apr 18Oct 5Mar 7Nov 1
2019Apr 15Oct 31Apr 1Oct 31
2018Apr 17Oct 21Apr 8Oct 21
2017Mar 19Oct 29Mar 19Oct 31
2016Apr 9Nov 10Mar 6Nov 13
2015Mar 29Oct 17Mar 28Nov 20
2014Apr 17Oct 30Mar 26Nov 1
2013Apr 25Oct 24Apr 3Oct 25
2012Apr 12Oct 11Feb 20Nov 13
2011Apr 1Oct 29Mar 11Nov 11
2010Mar 26Oct 4Mar 6Oct 29
2009Apr 9Oct 18Mar 13Dec 4
2008Apr 15Oct 28Mar 11Nov 9
2007Apr 13Oct 29Apr 9Nov 2
2006Apr 9Oct 13Mar 26Oct 14
2005Mar 21Oct 26Mar 20Oct 29
2004Apr 5Oct 5Mar 21Nov 25
2003Mar 31Oct 2Mar 31Nov 7
2002Apr 5Oct 14Apr 5Oct 14
2001Apr 18Oct 17Apr 18Oct 28
2000Apr 22Oct 8Apr 9Oct 9
1999Mar 27Oct 5Mar 27Nov 3
1998no dataOct 23no dataNov 6

"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.