Frost history / Milstead, AL
Milstead, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00015439, 1980 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 215 ft, 32.442, -85.889. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 22 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Feb 17 (1997) | Oct 20 (1981) |
| Latest | Apr 10 (2000) | Nov 29 (1988) |
| Trend | 1.2 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 23 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Oct 26 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 6 | Nov 9 | Feb 14 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Dec 2 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 8 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Nov 4 | Feb 28 | Dec 5 |
| 2005 | Mar 5 | Oct 29 | Mar 3 | Nov 18 |
| 2004 | Mar 24 | Nov 26 | Feb 21 | Dec 14 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 | Feb 12 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 2001 | Mar 10 | Oct 28 | Mar 10 | Oct 29 |
| 2000 | Apr 10 | Nov 15 | Feb 8 | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | Mar 18 | Nov 3 | Mar 5 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 22 | Nov 7 | Mar 13 | Dec 18 |
| 1997 | Feb 17 | Nov 16 | Feb 16 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | no data | Mar 10 | no data |
| 1994 | Apr 1 | Nov 24 | Feb 25 | Dec 12 |
| 1993 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 | Mar 16 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Apr 4 | Nov 8 | Feb 12 | Nov 30 |
| 1991 | Mar 15 | Nov 4 | Mar 11 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Apr 8 | Nov 18 | Mar 21 | Dec 5 |
| 1989 | Mar 9 | Oct 20 | Feb 25 | Nov 17 |
| 1988 | no data | Nov 29 | no data | Dec 2 |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 1982 | Mar 9 | no data | Mar 8 | no data |
| 1981 | Mar 20 | Oct 20 | Mar 15 | Nov 14 |
| 1980 | Mar 15 | Oct 26 | Mar 4 | Nov 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.