Frost history / Ardmore 3ENE Mesonet, OK
Ardmore 3ENE Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00340313, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 872 ft, 34.192, -97.086. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 27 | Nov 10 |
| Earliest | Mar 4 (2012) | Oct 12 (2019) |
| Latest | Apr 21 (2021) | Nov 30 (2020) |
| Trend | 6.7 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 16 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 13.
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 | Apr 7 | Nov 10 | Feb 23 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Mar 27 | Nov 26 | Feb 18 | Nov 29 |
| 2023 | Mar 19 | Oct 30 | Mar 19 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Mar 12 | Oct 19 | Mar 12 | Nov 13 |
| 2021 | Apr 21 | Nov 13 | Feb 20 | Nov 26 |
| 2020 | Apr 15 | Nov 30 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 31 | Oct 12 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Apr 8 | Nov 10 | Feb 22 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 | Feb 25 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | Mar 21 | no data | Feb 26 | no data |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 21 | Mar 6 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 15 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 2013 | Mar 26 | Nov 12 | Mar 26 | Nov 12 |
| 2012 | Mar 4 | Oct 27 | Feb 25 | Nov 13 |
| 2011 | Apr 5 | Nov 4 | Mar 6 | Nov 28 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 6 | Feb 24 | Nov 26 |
| 2009 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Dec 4 |
"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.