Freeze Information
                    (based on 1961-1990 data)

WEST CENTRAL                Avg Fall      Avg Spring   Frost-Free
                                                         Days
 Healy                       09-Oct         28-Apr        161
 Leoti                       09-Oct         01-May        161
 Ness City                   13-Oct         24-Apr        172
 Oakley                      13-Oct         25-Apr        171
 Quinter                     11-Oct         27-Apr        166
 Scott City                  10-Oct         26-Apr        167
 Sharon Springs              09-Oct         30-Apr        160
 Tribune                     07-Oct         04-May        151
 Wakeeney                    14-Oct         22-Apr        174

CENTRAL                     Avg Fall       Avg Spring  Frost-Free
                                                         Days
 Abilene                     11-Oct         19-Apr        177
 Bison                       12-Oct         25-Apr        172
 Ellsworth                   10-Oct         26-Apr        168
 Florence                    11-Oct         25-Apr        168
 Great Bend                  21-Oct         15-Apr        191
 Hays                        10-Oct         26-Apr        167
 Lincoln                     12-Oct         26-Apr        169
 McPherson                   19-Oct         18-Apr        186
 Russell                     17-Oct         24-Apr        176
 Salina                      20-Oct         17-Apr        187
 Sterling                    21-Oct         15-Apr        190

SOUTHWEST                   Avg Fall       Avg Spring  Frost-Free
                                                         Days
 Ashland                     12-Oct         21-Apr        173
 Cimarron                    10-Oct         25-Apr        169
 Dodge City                  21-Oct         20-Apr        183
 Elkhart                     18-Oct         17-Apr        178
 Garden City Exp. Station    13-Oct         26-Apr        169
 Hugoton                     18-Oct         21-Apr        181
 Jetmore                     11-Oct         23-Apr        173
 Lakin                       12-Oct         24-Apr        171
 Liberal                     24-Oct         16-Apr        192
 Meade                       17-Oct         20-Apr        180
 Sublette                    17-Oct         23-Apr        176
 Syracuse                    05-Oct         02-May        155
 Ulysses                     12-Oct         25-Apr        169

SOUTH CENTRAL               Avg Fall       Avg Spring  Frost-Free
                                                         Days
 Anthony                     28-Oct         08-Apr        206
 Coldwater                   20-Oct         15-Apr        187
 Greensburg                  19-Oct         17-Apr        185
 Hudson                      22-Oct         13-Apr        192
 Hutchinson                  17-Oct         19-Apr        183
 Kingman                     17-Oct         12-Apr        188
 Kinsley                     18-Oct         16-Apr        184
 Larned                      19-Oct         19-Apr        184
 Medicine Lodge              20-Oct         15-Apr        186
 Newton                      21-Oct         17-Apr        189
 Pratt                       16-Oct         15-Apr        187
 Wellington                  20-Oct         10-Apr        191
 Wichita                     25-Oct         14-Apr        194