Last Frost Day

Frost history / Cleveland 3 N, MS

Cleveland 3 N, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00221743, 1989 to 2007, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 140 ft, 33.794, -90.713. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 15Nov 17
EarliestFeb 16 (1997)Oct 20 (1989)
LatestApr 9 (2007)Nov 30 (1999)
Trend2.9 days earlier per decade9.7 days later per decade
Years with data1515

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 28.

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)

Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15199020001990: Mar 211991: Mar 301993: Mar 151994: Mar 311995: Mar 101996: Apr 61997: Feb 161998: Mar 131999: Mar 182000: Mar 142001: Mar 122002: Mar 232004: Feb 272005: Mar 102007: Apr 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11199020001989: Oct 201990: Nov 301991: Nov 21992: Nov 61993: Oct 301994: Nov 291995: Nov 41996: Nov 271997: Nov 161998: Nov 61999: Nov 302002: Nov 172003: Nov 242005: Nov 172006: Nov 20

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2007Apr 9no dataMar 4no data
2006no dataNov 20no dataNov 21
2005Mar 10Nov 17Jan 25Nov 18
2004Feb 27no dataFeb 9no data
2003no dataNov 24no dataNov 28
2002Mar 23Nov 17Mar 22Nov 28
2001Mar 12no dataFeb 11no data
2000Mar 14no dataFeb 7no data
1999Mar 18Nov 30Feb 23Dec 16
1998Mar 13Nov 6Mar 13Dec 22
1997Feb 16Nov 16Jan 31Nov 17
1996Apr 6Nov 27Mar 20Dec 18
1995Mar 10Nov 4Mar 9Nov 29
1994Mar 31Nov 29Feb 27Dec 11
1993Mar 15Oct 30Mar 15Oct 30
1992no dataNov 6no dataNov 29
1991Mar 30Nov 2Feb 26Nov 4
1990Mar 21Nov 30Jan 14Dec 5
1989no dataOct 20no dataNov 17

"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.