Frost history / Hammond 5 E, LA
Hammond 5 E, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00164030, 1981 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 35 ft, 30.503, -90.377. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 9 | Nov 20 |
| Earliest | Feb 7 (2000) | Oct 20 (1989) |
| Latest | Apr 15 (2008) | Dec 16 (1998) |
| Trend | 0.7 days later per decade | 1.7 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 30 | 31 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 15 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Mar 26 | Nov 14 | Feb 27 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 | Mar 27 | Nov 28 |
| 2011 | Feb 14 | Oct 20 | Feb 14 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 6 | Nov 6 | Feb 25 | Dec 7 |
| 2009 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 | Feb 14 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Nov 20 | Feb 14 | Dec 5 |
| 2005 | Feb 12 | no data | Jan 25 | no data |
| 2004 | Feb 20 | Dec 15 | Feb 8 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 25 | Jan 25 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | Mar 6 | Nov 29 | Mar 5 | none |
| 2001 | no data | Nov 21 | no data | Dec 26 |
| 2000 | Feb 7 | Nov 15 | Feb 7 | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | Mar 4 | Nov 27 | Jan 11 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 24 | Dec 16 | Mar 24 | none |
| 1997 | Feb 16 | Nov 17 | Feb 13 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | Mar 22 | Dec 2 | Mar 11 | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | Mar 10 | Nov 12 | Feb 9 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Feb 27 | Dec 12 | Feb 14 | Dec 12 |
| 1993 | Mar 16 | Nov 1 | Mar 14 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Feb 11 | Nov 29 | Jan 22 | Nov 29 |
| 1991 | Feb 17 | Nov 4 | Feb 16 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Mar 21 | Nov 30 | Jan 13 | Dec 9 |
| 1989 | Mar 9 | Oct 20 | Feb 25 | Dec 4 |
| 1988 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 | Mar 15 | Dec 13 |
| 1987 | Apr 5 | Nov 12 | Feb 10 | Dec 17 |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | Dec 6 | Mar 22 | none |
| 1985 | Feb 16 | Dec 3 | Feb 16 | Dec 15 |
| 1984 | Mar 8 | Nov 13 | Mar 1 | Nov 23 |
| 1983 | Mar 22 | Nov 17 | Jan 25 | Nov 29 |
| 1982 | Mar 9 | Nov 5 | Mar 8 | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | no data | Nov 21 | no data | Nov 21 |
"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.