Wow. That was quite the run. The thermometer dipped (finally) to 30 degrees in the Twin Cities — both at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport and in Saint Paul — early Friday morning, marking an end to the growing season for 2025.

Our last date with a freezing or subfreezing reading was way back on April 8. Both our first frost and last frost were way off normal. Using our modern normal (the 1991–2020 average), the last frost typically comes on April 24 and the first on October 13. Even using data just since 2010, the figures are April 22 and October 21. Either way, we broke them all. Fifty years ago, the average was May 1 and October 4, by the way.

This makes our growing season this year an incredible 199 days! That’s the second-longest growing season on record, behind 2016’s

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