Frost history / Oakley Exp Stn, MS
Oakley Exp Stn, MS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00226476, 1970 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 205 ft, 32.206, -90.513. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 22 | Nov 5 |
| Earliest | Feb 17 (1985) | Oct 13 (1987) |
| Latest | Apr 18 (1997) | Dec 6 (1973) |
| Trend | 0.6 days later per decade | 2.5 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 34 | 32 |
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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Mar 15 | no data | Feb 3 | no data |
| 2017 | Mar 16 | Oct 29 | Mar 15 | Nov 20 |
| 2016 | Mar 22 | Oct 22 | Feb 11 | Nov 11 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 7 | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Mar 26 | Nov 2 |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | no data | Feb 19 | no data |
| 2002 | Mar 23 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 2000 | Mar 12 | no data | Feb 7 | no data |
| 1999 | Mar 27 | no data | Feb 22 | no data |
| 1997 | Apr 18 | Oct 20 | Feb 16 | Nov 9 |
| 1996 | Apr 7 | Nov 3 | Mar 12 | Nov 27 |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 12 | Mar 10 | Nov 25 |
| 1994 | Apr 1 | Oct 27 | Feb 27 | Nov 30 |
| 1993 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Apr 3 | Nov 6 | Mar 11 | Nov 7 |
| 1991 | Mar 10 | Nov 2 | Feb 16 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Apr 8 | Oct 26 | Mar 20 | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | Oct 20 | Apr 11 | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Mar 17 | Nov 23 | Mar 16 | Nov 29 |
| 1987 | Apr 6 | Oct 13 | Apr 5 | Nov 12 |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 |
| 1985 | Feb 17 | Dec 2 | Feb 17 | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Mar 8 | Nov 12 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 |
| 1983 | Mar 25 | Nov 12 | Mar 22 | Nov 29 |
| 1982 | Mar 9 | Oct 25 | Mar 8 | Nov 5 |
| 1981 | Mar 20 | Nov 12 | Feb 14 | Nov 21 |
| 1980 | Mar 4 | Oct 31 | Mar 4 | Nov 19 |
| 1979 | Mar 7 | Nov 12 | Feb 19 | Nov 14 |
| 1978 | Mar 18 | Nov 9 | Mar 18 | Dec 5 |
| 1977 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 1976 | Mar 17 | Oct 18 | Feb 8 | Oct 21 |
| 1975 | Apr 5 | Nov 14 | Mar 6 | Nov 14 |
| 1974 | Mar 22 | Nov 15 | Feb 26 | Nov 15 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | Dec 6 | Feb 18 | Dec 7 |
| 1972 | Mar 6 | Nov 17 | Feb 20 | Dec 1 |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Nov 4 | Mar 8 | Nov 8 |
| 1970 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 16 |
"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.