Frost history / Columbus, MS
Columbus, MS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00221880, 1982 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 145 ft, 33.468, -88.385. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 22 | Nov 8 |
| Earliest | Feb 17 (1985) | Oct 9 (2000) |
| Latest | Apr 19 (1983) | Dec 4 (2009) |
| Trend | 3.3 days earlier per decade | 1.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 36 | 37 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 21.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mar 19 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 1 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 |
| 2020 | Mar 7 | Nov 24 | Feb 15 | Nov 30 |
| 2018 | Mar 22 | no data | Feb 3 | no data |
| 2017 | Mar 17 | Nov 19 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 2016 | Feb 26 | Nov 20 | Feb 11 | Nov 21 |
| 2015 | Mar 8 | Nov 14 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 9 | Mar 26 | Nov 15 |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Oct 26 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 3 | Nov 8 | Feb 20 | Nov 24 |
| 2011 | Feb 26 | Oct 22 | Feb 12 | Nov 12 |
| 2010 | Mar 7 | Oct 30 | Mar 5 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Mar 4 | Dec 4 | Mar 3 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Apr 16 | Oct 28 | Mar 26 | Oct 29 |
| 2007 | Apr 8 | Nov 6 | Mar 5 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Oct 23 | Feb 27 | Nov 21 |
| 2005 | Mar 18 | Oct 26 | Mar 2 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | no data | Dec 1 | no data | Dec 13 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 | Feb 11 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 22 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 2001 | Mar 23 | Oct 28 | Mar 10 | Nov 21 |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Oct 9 | Feb 9 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | Mar 27 | Oct 24 | Feb 22 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 13 | no data |
| 1997 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 10 | Nov 12 | Mar 12 | Dec 2 |
| 1995 | Mar 10 | Nov 9 | Feb 12 | Dec 9 |
| 1994 | Mar 10 | Nov 24 | Feb 26 | Dec 12 |
| 1993 | Mar 18 | Oct 31 | Mar 14 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Apr 3 | Nov 7 | Mar 11 | Nov 30 |
| 1991 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 1990 | Apr 8 | Oct 27 | Jan 26 | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | Apr 11 | Nov 4 | Mar 8 | Nov 17 |
| 1988 | Mar 17 | Nov 28 | Mar 16 | Dec 2 |
| 1987 | Apr 4 | Oct 22 | Feb 19 | Nov 12 |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | Nov 13 | Mar 22 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Feb 17 | Nov 8 | Feb 16 | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Mar 11 | Nov 13 | Mar 9 | Nov 22 |
| 1983 | Apr 19 | Nov 12 | Feb 8 | Dec 7 |
| 1982 | Apr 9 | Oct 25 | Mar 8 | Nov 5 |
"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.