Frost history / Springfield Wbo, MO
Springfield Wbo, MO: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00093981, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,325 ft, 37.200, -93.300. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 15 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Mar 15 (2017) | Oct 12 (2019) |
| Latest | Apr 23 (2023) | Nov 21 (2015) |
| Trend | 7.6 days later per decade | 21.5 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 11 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 1 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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mar 28 | Oct 16 | Mar 27 | Nov 22 |
| 2023 | Apr 23 | Oct 29 | Mar 20 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 19 | Oct 17 | Apr 1 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 13 | Apr 21 | Nov 13 |
| 2020 | Apr 18 | Oct 16 | Apr 18 | Nov 13 |
| 2019 | Apr 14 | Oct 12 | Mar 31 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Apr 16 | Oct 21 | Apr 16 | Nov 9 |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | Oct 27 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | Apr 2 | Nov 19 | Mar 25 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Apr 4 | Nov 21 | Apr 4 | Nov 21 |
| 2014 | Apr 15 | Oct 31 | Apr 15 | Oct 31 |
| 2013 | Apr 20 | no data | Apr 4 | no data |
| 1998 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 15 | no data |
"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.