Frost history / Minter City, MS
Minter City, MS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00225897, 1956 to 2006, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 145 ft, 33.759, -90.210. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 12 | Nov 9 |
| Earliest | Feb 14 (1997) | Oct 9 (2000) |
| Latest | Apr 7 (1996) | Dec 7 (1973) |
| Trend | 1.4 days earlier per decade | 0.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 31 | 37 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Feb 21 | Dec 1 | Feb 21 | Dec 5 |
| 2005 | Mar 3 | Nov 17 | Jan 24 | Nov 19 |
| 2003 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 | Feb 8 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | Mar 24 | Nov 17 | Mar 23 | Nov 27 |
| 2001 | Mar 6 | Oct 28 | Feb 19 | Nov 21 |
| 2000 | Mar 14 | Oct 9 | Feb 21 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Dec 7 |
| 1998 | Mar 13 | Nov 6 | Mar 13 | Dec 22 |
| 1997 | Feb 14 | Nov 16 | Jan 31 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 7 | Nov 3 | Mar 11 | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | Mar 10 | Nov 4 | Feb 13 | Nov 12 |
| 1994 | Feb 27 | Nov 30 | Feb 27 | Dec 11 |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 | Mar 15 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Apr 6 | Nov 7 | Mar 11 | Nov 7 |
| 1991 | Feb 26 | Nov 4 | Feb 17 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | no data | Nov 29 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 20 | no data | Nov 17 |
| 1982 | Mar 9 | no data | Mar 9 | no data |
| 1981 | Feb 15 | Nov 21 | Feb 14 | Nov 21 |
| 1980 | Mar 7 | Nov 20 | Mar 4 | Dec 20 |
| 1979 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 1977 | Mar 1 | Nov 11 | Feb 21 | Nov 27 |
| 1975 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 1973 | no data | Dec 7 | no data | Dec 17 |
| 1971 | Apr 6 | Nov 7 | Mar 5 | Nov 8 |
| 1970 | Mar 16 | Nov 16 | Feb 27 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 | Mar 12 | Nov 15 |
| 1967 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 1966 | Mar 26 | Nov 3 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 1965 | Mar 22 | Nov 18 | Mar 22 | Dec 1 |
| 1964 | Mar 31 | Nov 21 | Mar 31 | Nov 22 |
| 1963 | Mar 3 | Oct 30 | Feb 28 | Nov 14 |
| 1962 | Mar 8 | Nov 10 | Mar 7 | Dec 7 |
| 1961 | Feb 26 | Nov 9 | Feb 11 | Nov 9 |
| 1960 | no data | Oct 21 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 1959 | Mar 7 | no data | Feb 21 | no data |
| 1958 | Mar 21 | Nov 7 | Feb 21 | Nov 29 |
| 1957 | Mar 27 | Oct 28 | Mar 8 | Dec 11 |
| 1956 | Mar 20 | Nov 9 | Jan 24 | Nov 9 |
"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.