Frost history / Whitman 5 Ene, NE
Whitman 5 Ene, NE: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00094079, 2005 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,740 ft, 42.068, -101.445. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 6 | Oct 9 |
| Earliest | Apr 14 (2007) | Sep 9 (2020) |
| Latest | May 22 (2022) | Oct 28 (2015) |
| Trend | 7.2 days later per decade | 3.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 20 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 24 and the median first fall date is Oct 23.
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 | May 4 | Oct 14 | Apr 20 | Nov 5 |
| 2023 | May 2 | Oct 7 | Apr 24 | Oct 26 |
| 2022 | May 22 | Oct 17 | Apr 25 | Oct 17 |
| 2021 | May 10 | Oct 14 | Apr 24 | Nov 2 |
| 2020 | May 11 | Sep 9 | May 10 | Oct 17 |
| 2019 | May 10 | Oct 9 | May 2 | Oct 10 |
| 2018 | Apr 25 | Oct 3 | Apr 19 | Oct 10 |
| 2017 | May 20 | Oct 9 | Apr 27 | Oct 26 |
| 2016 | May 14 | Oct 6 | Apr 1 | Nov 17 |
| 2015 | May 20 | Oct 28 | Apr 22 | Oct 28 |
| 2014 | May 12 | Sep 11 | Apr 17 | Oct 30 |
| 2013 | May 5 | Oct 4 | May 4 | Oct 18 |
| 2012 | Apr 16 | Oct 4 | Mar 9 | Oct 5 |
| 2011 | May 3 | Oct 18 | Apr 20 | Oct 19 |
| 2010 | May 8 | Oct 28 | May 8 | Nov 4 |
| 2009 | May 1 | Oct 2 | Apr 28 | Oct 8 |
| 2008 | May 11 | Oct 13 | May 11 | Oct 26 |
| 2007 | Apr 14 | Oct 21 | Apr 12 | Oct 31 |
| 2006 | Apr 26 | Oct 11 | Apr 26 | Oct 11 |
| 2005 | May 3 | Oct 6 | May 2 | Oct 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.