Frost history / Verona Exp Stn, MS
Verona Exp Stn, MS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00229173, 1987 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 325 ft, 34.165, -88.724. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 23 | Nov 3 |
| Earliest | Feb 27 (2012) | Oct 8 (1987) |
| Latest | Apr 16 (2014) | Dec 2 (2004) |
| Trend | 3.5 days earlier per decade | 3.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 33 | 33 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 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 | Nov 10 | Feb 23 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Mar 20 | Nov 24 | Mar 19 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | Apr 9 | Nov 11 | Feb 10 | Nov 28 |
| 2017 | Mar 16 | Oct 30 | Mar 16 | Nov 21 |
| 2016 | Mar 23 | Nov 21 | Feb 28 | Nov 21 |
| 2015 | Mar 9 | Nov 22 | Mar 8 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Oct 26 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Feb 27 | Nov 8 | Feb 20 | Nov 13 |
| 2011 | Mar 11 | Oct 21 | Feb 13 | Nov 18 |
| 2010 | Mar 7 | Nov 6 | Mar 7 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Mar 4 | Nov 27 | Mar 4 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Apr 16 | Oct 28 | Mar 10 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 9 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 | Mar 26 | Nov 21 |
| 2005 | Mar 19 | Oct 26 | Mar 3 | Nov 30 |
| 2004 | Mar 11 | Dec 2 | Feb 18 | Dec 14 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 25 | Feb 18 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | Mar 23 | Nov 17 | Mar 23 | Nov 28 |
| 2001 | Mar 27 | Oct 28 | Mar 27 | Nov 21 |
| 2000 | Mar 13 | Oct 9 | Feb 10 | Nov 21 |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Oct 25 | Mar 4 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 22 | Nov 6 | Mar 22 | Dec 22 |
| 1997 | Apr 14 | Oct 29 | Feb 15 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 10 | Nov 3 | Mar 12 | Nov 28 |
| 1995 | Mar 10 | Oct 25 | Mar 10 | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | Apr 1 | Nov 24 | Feb 28 | Nov 24 |
| 1993 | Apr 3 | Oct 31 | Mar 15 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Apr 3 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Nov 3 | Feb 17 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Apr 8 | Oct 26 | Mar 21 | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | Apr 11 | Oct 20 | Apr 11 | Nov 4 |
| 1988 | Mar 19 | Nov 24 | Mar 16 | Nov 29 |
| 1987 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 22 |
"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.