Frost history / Guntersville No.2, AL
Guntersville No.2, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00013575, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 595 ft, 34.335, -86.329. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 15 | Nov 23 |
| Earliest | Feb 13 (2011) | Nov 8 (2007) |
| Latest | Apr 9 (2007) | Dec 16 (1998) |
| Trend | 6.3 days earlier per decade | 2.9 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 23 and the median first fall date is Dec 1.
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 | Feb 23 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Feb 20 | Nov 30 | Feb 18 | Dec 4 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 28 | Feb 5 | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 14 | Nov 14 | Mar 14 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | Feb 22 | Nov 23 | Feb 21 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 23 | Dec 1 | Feb 16 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 8 | Nov 12 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Mar 10 | Nov 16 | Feb 2 | Nov 28 |
| 2017 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 | Mar 17 | Dec 10 |
| 2016 | Feb 27 | Dec 9 | Feb 15 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Nov 23 | Mar 7 | Nov 24 |
| 2014 | Mar 5 | Nov 14 | Mar 4 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 | Feb 18 | Nov 24 |
| 2012 | Feb 20 | Nov 25 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Feb 13 | Nov 11 | Feb 13 | none |
| 2010 | Mar 7 | Nov 27 | Feb 26 | Dec 5 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Dec 6 | Mar 4 | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Nov 18 | Mar 10 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 9 | Nov 8 | Feb 20 | Dec 17 |
| 2006 | Mar 26 | Dec 2 | Feb 26 | Dec 4 |
| 2005 | Mar 8 | Nov 16 | Mar 2 | Dec 5 |
| 2004 | Mar 22 | Dec 2 | Jan 31 | Dec 14 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Nov 25 | Feb 12 | Nov 30 |
| 2002 | Mar 23 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 1999 | no data | Dec 1 | no data | Dec 23 |
| 1998 | Mar 14 | Dec 16 | Mar 13 | Dec 23 |
| 1997 | Mar 15 | Nov 16 | Feb 15 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Mar 22 | Nov 27 | Mar 11 | Dec 19 |
"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.