Rolling Fork, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00227560, 1975 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 105 ft, 32.898, -90.885. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 10	Nov 12
Earliest	Feb 9 (1976)	Oct 20 (1989)
Latest	Apr 12 (1989)	Dec 2 (2004)
Trend	3.6 days earlier per decade	2.0 days later per decade
Years with data	39	38

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.

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.

Chart

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
2015	Mar 7	Nov 23	Mar 7	Nov 23
2014	Mar 5	Nov 2	Mar 5	Nov 15
2012	Feb 13	no data	Feb 13	no data
2011	Feb 12	Nov 30	Feb 12	Dec 8
2010	Mar 5	Nov 6	Mar 4	Nov 27
2009	Mar 4	Nov 27	Mar 3	Dec 5
2008	Mar 10	Oct 29	Mar 8	Nov 22
2007	Mar 6	Nov 7	Mar 6	Dec 4
2006	Feb 27	Nov 20	Feb 20	Nov 21
2005	Mar 10	Nov 11	Jan 25	Nov 17
2004	Feb 27	Dec 2	Feb 17	Dec 15
2003	Mar 3	Nov 24	Feb 9	Nov 25
2002	Mar 23	Nov 17	Mar 5	Nov 28
2001	Mar 10	Oct 28	Feb 3	Nov 21
2000	Feb 20	Nov 14	Feb 7	Nov 21
1999	Mar 15	Nov 3	Feb 22	Dec 22
1998	Mar 13	Nov 6	Mar 13	Dec 22
1997	Feb 16	Nov 16	Jan 31	Nov 16
1996	Apr 7	Nov 27	Mar 12	Dec 19
1995	Mar 11	Nov 4	Feb 13	Nov 25
1994	Mar 11	Dec 1	Feb 27	Dec 12
1993	Mar 15	Oct 31	Mar 15	Oct 31
1992	Apr 2	Nov 6	Mar 11	Nov 7
1991	Mar 31	Nov 2	Feb 27	Nov 4
1990	Apr 8	Nov 6	Apr 8	Dec 5
1989	Apr 12	Oct 20	Mar 8	Oct 20
1988	Mar 19	Dec 2	Mar 16	Dec 5
1987	Apr 6	Nov 12	Mar 31	Nov 12
1986	Mar 23	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 14
1985	Feb 17	Dec 2	Feb 17	Dec 2
1984	Mar 10	Nov 12	Mar 1	Nov 22
1983	Mar 22	Nov 13	Feb 9	Nov 29
1982	Mar 9	Nov 5	Mar 8	Nov 5
1981	Mar 19	Nov 21	Feb 14	Nov 21
1980	Mar 6	Oct 31	Mar 4	Nov 20
1979	Mar 11	Nov 14	Feb 20	Nov 30
1978	Mar 6	Nov 9	Mar 6	Dec 10
1977	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 26
1976	Feb 9	Oct 21	Feb 8	Nov 23
1975	Mar 15	no data	Feb 10	no data

"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.