Frost history / Meadville, MS
Meadville, MS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00225704, 1956 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 345 ft, 31.466, -90.885. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 25 | Nov 11 |
| Earliest | Feb 18 (1997) | Oct 20 (1964) |
| Latest | Apr 14 (1959) | Dec 15 (1998) |
| Trend | 1.8 days earlier per decade | 4.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 29 | 31 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 9 and the median first fall date is Nov 22.
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 | Feb 20 | no data | Feb 5 | no data |
| 2008 | no data | Nov 19 | no data | none |
| 2004 | no data | Dec 3 | no data | Dec 13 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Nov 24 | Feb 12 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Dec 7 |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Nov 14 | Feb 7 | Nov 21 |
| 1998 | Mar 23 | Dec 15 | Mar 13 | Dec 16 |
| 1997 | Feb 18 | Nov 9 | Jan 21 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | Apr 8 | Nov 27 | Mar 12 | Dec 2 |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 12 | Feb 13 | Nov 30 |
| 1994 | Apr 1 | Dec 1 | Feb 28 | Dec 11 |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Nov 2 | Feb 17 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Apr 7 | no data | Jan 15 | no data |
| 1989 | Apr 13 | Oct 20 | Mar 10 | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Mar 19 | Nov 24 | Mar 16 | Dec 2 |
| 1987 | Apr 6 | Nov 11 | Apr 5 | Nov 12 |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 | Mar 23 | Dec 6 |
| 1985 | Mar 19 | Dec 2 | Feb 18 | Dec 3 |
| 1984 | Mar 8 | Nov 12 | Mar 8 | Nov 12 |
| 1968 | Mar 25 | Oct 29 | Mar 24 | Nov 10 |
| 1967 | Mar 17 | Nov 4 | Feb 26 | Nov 5 |
| 1966 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 1965 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 21 | no data |
| 1964 | Mar 27 | Oct 20 | Feb 28 | Nov 22 |
| 1963 | Mar 23 | Oct 30 | Feb 27 | Nov 2 |
| 1962 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 | Mar 16 | Dec 9 |
| 1961 | Mar 10 | Nov 9 | Mar 10 | Nov 9 |
| 1960 | Mar 22 | Nov 12 | Mar 18 | Dec 2 |
| 1959 | Apr 14 | Nov 7 | Mar 7 | Nov 7 |
| 1958 | Mar 28 | Nov 21 | Mar 15 | Nov 29 |
| 1957 | Apr 9 | Oct 27 | Mar 9 | Oct 28 |
| 1956 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 10 |
"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.