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Frost history / Lambert 1W, MS

Lambert 1W, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00224869, 2002 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 155 ft, 34.204, -90.291. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 15Nov 3
EarliestFeb 25 (2012)Oct 15 (2019)
LatestApr 16 (2014)Nov 27 (2009)
Trend0.5 days earlier per decade5.2 days earlier per decade
Years with data2023

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 16.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202002: Mar 232003: Mar 112004: Feb 282006: Mar 262007: Apr 82009: Mar 42010: Mar 62011: Mar 162012: Feb 252013: Mar 282014: Apr 162015: Mar 82017: Mar 162018: Apr 82019: Mar 72020: Feb 282021: Mar 32022: Mar 142023: Mar 212025: Mar 21

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202002: Nov 172003: Nov 242005: Nov 172006: Nov 32007: Nov 72008: Oct 282009: Nov 272010: Oct 302011: Oct 212012: Nov 82013: Oct 272014: Nov 22015: Nov 222016: Nov 202017: Oct 252018: Nov 102019: Oct 152020: Nov 22021: Nov 52022: Oct 192023: Nov 12024: Nov 232025: Nov 3

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
2025Mar 21Nov 3Feb 24Nov 10
2024no dataNov 23no dataNov 23
2023Mar 21Nov 1Mar 20Nov 1
2022Mar 14Oct 19Mar 14Oct 19
2021Mar 3Nov 5Feb 21Nov 19
2020Feb 28Nov 2Feb 27Dec 1
2019Mar 7Oct 15Mar 6Nov 9
2018Apr 8Nov 10Feb 9Nov 15
2017Mar 16Oct 25Mar 16Oct 25
2016no dataNov 20no dataNov 20
2015Mar 8Nov 22Mar 7Nov 23
2014Apr 16Nov 2Mar 27Nov 2
2013Mar 28Oct 27Mar 28Nov 13
2012Feb 25Nov 8Feb 13Nov 13
2011Mar 16Oct 21Feb 13Dec 1
2010Mar 6Oct 30Mar 5Nov 6
2009Mar 4Nov 27Mar 4Nov 27
2008no dataOct 28no dataOct 29
2007Apr 8Nov 7Mar 5Nov 16
2006Mar 26Nov 3Feb 21Nov 21
2005no dataNov 17no dataNov 17
2004Feb 28no dataFeb 19no data
2003Mar 11Nov 24Feb 26Nov 25
2002Mar 23Nov 17Mar 23Nov 28

"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.