Frost history / Brusly 2 W, LA
Brusly 2 W, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00161246, 1988 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 20 ft, 30.392, -91.271. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 19 | Nov 20 |
| Earliest | Jan 14 (1990) | Oct 20 (1989) |
| Latest | Mar 25 (2006) | Dec 15 (2004) |
| Trend | 4.9 days later per decade | 1.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 21 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 6 and the median first fall date is Dec 6.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Mar 2 | no data | Jan 22 | no data |
| 2008 | Feb 9 | Oct 28 | Jan 4 | Dec 2 |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Nov 17 | Feb 14 | Nov 21 |
| 2005 | Feb 12 | Nov 18 | Jan 25 | Dec 6 |
| 2004 | Feb 19 | Dec 15 | Jan 29 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Feb 12 | Nov 25 | Jan 26 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | Mar 6 | Nov 29 | Mar 6 | Dec 7 |
| 2001 | Feb 19 | Nov 21 | Feb 5 | Dec 26 |
| 2000 | Feb 7 | Nov 15 | Feb 7 | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | Feb 25 | Nov 3 | Jan 12 | Dec 16 |
| 1998 | Mar 13 | Dec 15 | Mar 11 | Dec 17 |
| 1997 | Feb 16 | Nov 17 | Jan 20 | Dec 6 |
| 1996 | Mar 21 | Nov 27 | Mar 11 | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | Feb 13 | Nov 12 | Feb 9 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Feb 15 | Dec 12 | Feb 3 | Dec 12 |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Nov 1 | Mar 15 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Feb 10 | Nov 29 | Jan 22 | Nov 29 |
| 1991 | Feb 17 | Nov 4 | Feb 17 | Nov 5 |
| 1990 | Jan 14 | Nov 30 | none | Dec 9 |
| 1989 | Mar 7 | Oct 20 | Mar 6 | Dec 4 |
| 1988 | no data | Nov 29 | no data | Dec 13 |
"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.