Brinkley, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00030936, 1951 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 185 ft, 34.882, -91.215. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 26	Nov 6
Earliest	Feb 13 (2011)	Oct 7 (1952)
Latest	Apr 19 (1983)	Dec 9 (1998)
Trend	3.1 days earlier per decade	3.9 days later per decade
Years with data	61	57

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 17.

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
2016	Mar 26	no data	Feb 15	no data
2015	Mar 9	Nov 22	Mar 8	Nov 22
2014	Mar 26	Nov 2	Mar 6	Nov 13
2013	Mar 28	Nov 13	Mar 4	Nov 13
2012	Feb 20	Nov 13	Feb 13	Nov 28
2011	Feb 13	Nov 18	Feb 13	Dec 8
2010	Mar 5	Nov 6	Feb 26	Dec 5
2009	Mar 13	Nov 27	Mar 4	Dec 5
2008	Apr 14	Oct 28	Mar 8	Nov 19
2007	Apr 9	no data	Apr 9	no data
2004	Feb 27	no data	Feb 17	no data
2003	Mar 12	Nov 24	Feb 27	Nov 29
2002	Mar 23	Nov 27	Mar 23	Nov 28
2001	Mar 26	Nov 21	Feb 19	Dec 25
2000	Mar 13	Nov 11	Mar 12	Nov 18
1999	Mar 15	Nov 26	Feb 24	Dec 22
1998	Mar 13	Dec 9	Mar 13	Dec 22
1997	Mar 16	Nov 16	Jan 31	Nov 16
1996	Apr 8	Nov 3	Mar 12	Nov 27
1995	Mar 10	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 29
1994	Apr 7	Nov 30	Feb 28	Dec 11
1993	Mar 19	Oct 31	Mar 15	Oct 31
1992	Mar 23	Nov 7	Mar 11	Nov 29
1991	Mar 31	Nov 2	Feb 27	Nov 3
1990	Mar 27	Nov 30	Feb 26	Dec 8
1989	Apr 12	Oct 20	Apr 12	Nov 17
1988	Mar 19	Nov 17	Mar 16	Dec 5
1987	Apr 4	Nov 11	Mar 12	Dec 2
1986	Mar 22	Nov 13	Mar 21	Nov 13
1985	Mar 1	Nov 21	Feb 16	Dec 2
1984	Mar 12	Nov 12	Mar 12	Nov 22
1983	Apr 19	Nov 12	Mar 23	Nov 29
1982	Apr 6	Nov 4	Feb 13	Nov 5
1981	Mar 10	Oct 24	Feb 15	Nov 21
1980	Mar 18	Oct 31	Mar 4	Nov 19
1979	Mar 26	Nov 4	Mar 11	Nov 11
1978	no data	Nov 8	no data	Dec 4
1977	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 26
1976	Mar 17	no data	Feb 4	no data
1975	Apr 4	no data	Mar 16	no data
1974	Apr 10	Nov 15	Feb 27	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Oct 30	Apr 11	Nov 12
1972	Apr 1	Oct 26	Feb 20	Nov 29
1971	Apr 8	Nov 7	Mar 9	Nov 8
1970	Apr 5	Nov 5	Mar 16	Nov 16
1969	Mar 15	Nov 4	Mar 14	Nov 5
1968	Apr 6	Oct 25	Mar 5	Nov 10
1967	Mar 19	Oct 28	Mar 18	Nov 4
1966	Apr 6	Oct 20	Apr 5	Nov 3
1965	Mar 27	Oct 25	Mar 26	Oct 25
1964	Apr 9	Oct 11	Mar 31	Nov 20
1963	Mar 22	Oct 30	Feb 28	Nov 2
1962	Apr 16	Nov 4	Apr 16	Nov 4
1961	Mar 10	Nov 7	Mar 10	Nov 9
1960	Mar 26	Oct 21	Mar 26	Nov 10
1959	Mar 23	Nov 6	Mar 16	Nov 7
1958	no data	Nov 7	no data	Nov 7
1957	Apr 13	no data	Mar 27	no data
1956	Apr 8	Nov 9	Mar 20	Nov 9
1955	Mar 29	Oct 18	Mar 28	Oct 25
1954	Apr 1	Oct 30	Mar 16	Oct 30
1953	Apr 19	no data	Mar 8	no data
1952	Mar 28	Oct 7	Mar 6	Oct 7
1951	Mar 20	Nov 2	Mar 13	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.