Frost history / P Harrison Archusa, MS
P Harrison Archusa, MS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00226638, 2006 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 216 ft, 32.034, -88.710. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 10 | Nov 14 |
| Earliest | Feb 25 (2012) | Oct 30 (2011) |
| Latest | Mar 28 (2013) | Nov 25 (2012) |
| Trend | 0.5 days later per decade | 14.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 10 | 10 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 26.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Mar 7 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 2018 | Mar 16 | Nov 15 | Feb 4 | Dec 6 |
| 2017 | Mar 16 | Nov 20 | Jan 10 | Dec 9 |
| 2016 | Feb 27 | Nov 20 | Feb 11 | Nov 21 |
| 2015 | Mar 8 | Nov 23 | Mar 7 | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Mar 27 | Nov 2 | Feb 28 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 | Mar 3 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Feb 25 | Nov 25 | Feb 25 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Mar 12 | Oct 30 | Feb 13 | Nov 29 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Nov 27 |
| 2006 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Dec 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.