Frost history / Centre, AL
Centre, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00011490, 2003 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 600 ft, 34.150, -85.685. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 2 | Nov 1 |
| Earliest | Mar 7 (2012) | Oct 18 (2024) |
| Latest | Apr 26 (2005) | Nov 16 (2004) |
| Trend | 4.1 days earlier per decade | 1.5 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 17 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 12.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 22 | Nov 10 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Apr 7 | Oct 18 | Mar 20 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 1 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 11 | Oct 19 | Mar 14 | Oct 19 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 7 | Apr 4 | Nov 14 |
| 2020 | Mar 8 | Nov 3 | Mar 8 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 2016 | Mar 23 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 2015 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Mar 7 | Nov 1 | Feb 26 | Nov 3 |
| 2011 | Apr 7 | Oct 22 | Feb 14 | Oct 31 |
| 2010 | Mar 9 | Nov 6 | Mar 9 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 | Apr 9 | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | Apr 18 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 2006 | Mar 28 | Oct 23 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 |
| 2005 | Apr 26 | Oct 26 | Mar 10 | Nov 12 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Nov 26 |
| 2003 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 25 |
"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.