Frost history / Owens Cross Roads 3S, AL
Owens Cross Roads 3S, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00016196, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 590 ft, 34.553, -86.445. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 9 | Oct 30 |
| Earliest | Mar 9 (2010) | Oct 15 (2006) |
| Latest | Apr 25 (2005) | Nov 11 (2016) |
| Trend | 2.8 days earlier per decade | 2.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 21 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 5.
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 | Apr 10 | no data | Mar 22 | no data |
| 2024 | Apr 6 | Oct 17 | Mar 20 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 1 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 10 | Oct 19 | Mar 15 | Oct 20 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 7 | Apr 3 | Nov 14 |
| 2020 | Mar 9 | Nov 2 | Mar 7 | Nov 18 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | Apr 18 | Nov 10 | Apr 8 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 17 | Oct 30 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 2016 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 | Feb 28 | Nov 11 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Oct 19 | Mar 30 | Nov 14 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 20 | Oct 25 | Mar 28 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 13 | Nov 1 | Mar 7 | Nov 2 |
| 2011 | Mar 26 | Oct 21 | Feb 13 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | Mar 9 | Oct 30 | Mar 8 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 | Apr 8 | Nov 28 |
| 2008 | Apr 17 | Oct 28 | Mar 26 | Oct 29 |
| 2007 | Apr 9 | Nov 7 | Apr 8 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Oct 15 | Mar 26 | Nov 3 |
| 2005 | Apr 25 | Oct 23 | Mar 9 | Oct 27 |
"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.