Tupelo 2, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00229004, 2000 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 350 ft, 34.265, -88.766. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 21	Nov 10
Earliest	Feb 26 (2012)	Oct 26 (2005)
Latest	Apr 16 (2014)	Dec 1 (2004)
Trend	0.8 days later per decade	0.7 days earlier per decade
Years with data	20	21

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 6 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
2025	Mar 21	no data	Feb 23	no data
2024	Mar 19	Nov 30	Mar 19	Dec 1
2023	Mar 21	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 2
2020	no data	Nov 24	no data	Dec 1
2019	Apr 1	Nov 1	Mar 7	Nov 12
2018	Apr 8	Nov 10	Feb 9	Nov 16
2017	Mar 16	Oct 29	Mar 16	Nov 20
2016	Feb 27	Nov 21	Feb 14	Nov 21
2015	Mar 28	Nov 22	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 2	Mar 26	Nov 14
2013	Mar 28	Nov 13	Mar 14	Nov 13
2012	Feb 26	Nov 8	Feb 20	Nov 25
2011	Mar 11	Oct 30	Feb 12	Nov 18
2010	Mar 8	Nov 6	Mar 8	Dec 2
2009	Mar 4	Nov 27	Mar 4	Dec 5
2008	Mar 25	no data	Mar 9	no data
2007	Apr 8	Nov 7	Mar 5	Dec 4
2006	Mar 26	Nov 3	Feb 27	Dec 2
2005	Mar 18	Oct 26	Mar 2	Nov 17
2004	Mar 22	Dec 1	Feb 16	Dec 2
2002	Mar 23	Nov 17	Mar 23	Nov 28
2001	no data	Nov 21	no data	Nov 21
2000	no data	Nov 14	no data	Nov 15

"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.