Frost history / Rosepine Rsch Stn, LA
Rosepine Rsch Stn, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00168046, 1976 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 238 ft, 30.946, -93.279. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 15 | Nov 16 |
| Earliest | Jan 25 (2005) | Oct 20 (1989) |
| Latest | Apr 10 (2003) | Dec 15 (1998) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 2.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 34 | 34 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 19 and the median first fall date is Dec 4.
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 | Apr 7 | Nov 27 | Mar 29 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Oct 28 | Jan 30 | Dec 2 |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | Dec 4 | Mar 5 | Dec 4 |
| 2006 | Mar 26 | Nov 17 | Feb 20 | Nov 21 |
| 2005 | Jan 25 | Nov 17 | Jan 24 | Dec 6 |
| 2004 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 | Feb 8 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 | Feb 11 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | Mar 23 | Nov 17 | Mar 5 | Dec 26 |
| 2001 | Feb 19 | Nov 21 | Feb 4 | Dec 26 |
| 2000 | Apr 8 | Nov 15 | Feb 6 | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | Mar 15 | Oct 24 | Feb 22 | Dec 16 |
| 1998 | Mar 22 | Dec 15 | Mar 12 | Dec 16 |
| 1997 | Feb 16 | Nov 4 | Jan 31 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 | Mar 21 | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | Mar 9 | Nov 12 | Feb 8 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Mar 29 | Dec 1 | Feb 14 | Dec 12 |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 | Mar 14 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Mar 11 | Nov 5 | Jan 24 | Nov 28 |
| 1991 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 | Feb 16 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Mar 20 | Nov 30 | Jan 26 | Dec 4 |
| 1989 | Mar 10 | Oct 20 | Mar 8 | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Mar 20 | Nov 23 | Mar 15 | Nov 29 |
| 1987 | Apr 5 | Nov 11 | Mar 31 | Nov 12 |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 | Mar 22 | none |
| 1985 | Feb 16 | Dec 2 | Feb 16 | Dec 14 |
| 1984 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 7 | Dec 7 |
| 1983 | Apr 3 | Nov 25 | Mar 11 | Nov 29 |
| 1982 | Mar 8 | Nov 14 | Feb 11 | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | Mar 20 | Nov 21 | Feb 13 | Nov 21 |
| 1980 | Mar 4 | Oct 31 | Mar 4 | Nov 19 |
| 1979 | Mar 25 | Nov 14 | Feb 19 | Nov 30 |
| 1978 | Mar 11 | Dec 4 | Mar 10 | Dec 5 |
| 1977 | Mar 8 | Nov 10 | Feb 16 | Dec 7 |
| 1976 | Mar 17 | Oct 21 | Feb 23 | Nov 22 |
"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.