Thomasville, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00018178, 1951 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 390 ft, 31.917, -87.735. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 18	Nov 13
Earliest	Feb 13 (2011)	Oct 17 (1977)
Latest	Apr 14 (1959)	Dec 16 (1998)
Trend	2.8 days earlier per decade	2.7 days later per decade
Years with data	61	61

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 28 and the median first fall date is Nov 27.

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.

Chart

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 27	Nov 13	Mar 3	Nov 13
2012	Feb 20	Nov 25	Feb 13	Dec 30
2011	Feb 13	Nov 18	Feb 12	Nov 18
2010	Mar 6	Nov 7	Feb 25	Dec 6
2009	Mar 4	Nov 27	Mar 3	Dec 6
2008	Mar 10	Nov 16	Feb 28	Nov 19
2007	Mar 5	no data	Feb 19	no data
2006	Mar 26	Nov 20	Feb 13	Dec 4
2005	no data	Nov 17	no data	Nov 18
2004	no data	Nov 26	no data	Dec 15
2003	Apr 1	Nov 25	Feb 9	Nov 25
2002	Mar 23	Nov 23	Mar 6	Nov 29
2001	Feb 19	Nov 21	Feb 5	Dec 26
2000	Mar 13	Nov 20	Feb 7	Nov 21
1999	Mar 5	Dec 1	Feb 23	Dec 7
1998	Mar 22	Dec 16	Mar 13	none
1997	Feb 17	Nov 16	Feb 12	Nov 17
1996	Mar 22	Nov 3	Mar 12	Dec 19
1995	Mar 11	Nov 12	Feb 12	Dec 10
1994	Feb 28	Dec 11	Feb 27	Dec 12
1993	Mar 16	Oct 31	Mar 15	Nov 1
1992	Mar 12	Nov 7	Mar 11	Nov 30
1991	Mar 11	Nov 4	Feb 17	Nov 4
1990	Mar 21	Dec 4	Jan 27	Dec 5
1989	Mar 8	Oct 20	Feb 26	Nov 17
1988	Mar 20	Nov 29	Mar 16	Dec 3
1987	Apr 6	Nov 11	Apr 4	Dec 17
1986	Mar 23	Nov 14	Mar 22	Nov 14
1985	Feb 17	Dec 3	Feb 16	Dec 3
1984	Mar 10	Nov 13	Mar 2	Dec 7
1983	Mar 29	Nov 12	Feb 9	Dec 24
1982	Mar 10	Nov 5	Mar 9	Nov 25
1981	Mar 20	Nov 21	Mar 20	Nov 21
1980	Mar 5	Nov 19	Mar 4	Nov 19
1979	Mar 26	Nov 14	Feb 12	Nov 30
1978	Mar 28	no data	Mar 17	no data
1977	Mar 8	Oct 17	Feb 22	Dec 7
1976	Mar 18	Oct 21	Feb 23	Nov 6
1975	Mar 16	Nov 14	Mar 6	Nov 14
1974	Mar 23	Nov 13	Feb 28	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 11	Feb 23	Dec 7
1972	Apr 1	Nov 16	Feb 20	Dec 1
1971	Mar 27	Nov 8	Mar 9	Nov 8
1970	Mar 16	Nov 4	Feb 27	Nov 17
1969	Mar 27	Nov 15	Mar 27	Nov 15
1968	Mar 25	Nov 10	Mar 24	Nov 13
1967	Mar 18	Nov 5	Feb 26	Dec 23
1966	Mar 25	Nov 3	Mar 25	Nov 3
1965	Mar 22	Nov 18	Mar 22	Nov 30
1964	Mar 31	Nov 22	Feb 24	Nov 22
1963	Mar 22	Nov 2	Feb 28	Nov 14
1962	Apr 2	Nov 6	Mar 8	Dec 6
1961	Mar 10	Nov 9	Feb 10	Nov 29
1960	Apr 11	Oct 21	Mar 22	Nov 7
1959	Apr 14	Nov 7	Mar 7	Nov 7
1958	Mar 22	Nov 29	Feb 22	Nov 29
1957	Mar 10	Oct 27	Mar 9	Dec 1
1956	Mar 21	Nov 9	Feb 28	Nov 10
1955	Mar 29	Oct 31	Mar 29	Nov 4
1954	Mar 16	Oct 31	Mar 4	Nov 3
1953	Feb 18	Nov 10	Jan 4	Dec 15
1952	Mar 16	Nov 21	Jan 30	Dec 14
1951	Mar 15	Nov 3	Feb 8	Nov 3

"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.