Frost history / Atoka, OK
Atoka, OK: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00340391, 1951 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 565 ft, 34.398, -96.140. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 7 | Nov 6 |
| Earliest | Mar 7 (2015) | Oct 8 (2012) |
| Latest | May 4 (2013) | Nov 29 (1965) |
| Trend | 0.8 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 28 | 29 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Apr 16 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | no data | Mar 3 | no data |
| 2016 | Mar 28 | Nov 19 | Mar 21 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Apr 15 | Nov 1 |
| 2013 | May 4 | Nov 7 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 10 | Oct 8 | Mar 5 | Oct 28 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Oct 20 | Apr 5 | Nov 4 |
| 2010 | Mar 30 | Oct 29 | Mar 22 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Nov 18 | Apr 8 | Nov 26 |
| 2008 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 | Mar 24 | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Nov 7 | Mar 5 | Nov 23 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Oct 23 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 2005 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 | Mar 17 | Oct 25 |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | Nov 25 | Feb 28 | Nov 25 |
| 2003 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Mar 27 | Nov 6 | Mar 23 | Nov 19 |
| 1974 | Apr 9 | Nov 15 | Mar 24 | Nov 15 |
| 1973 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 1972 | Mar 31 | Nov 20 | Mar 2 | Nov 23 |
| 1971 | no data | Nov 7 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 1969 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 1965 | no data | Nov 29 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 1964 | Apr 9 | no data | Mar 26 | no data |
| 1963 | Mar 23 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 1962 | Apr 2 | no data | Mar 17 | no data |
| 1961 | Apr 10 | Nov 3 | Feb 25 | Nov 29 |
| 1960 | Mar 21 | Oct 20 | Mar 18 | Nov 10 |
| 1959 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 1958 | Mar 20 | Nov 2 | Mar 14 | Nov 19 |
| 1957 | Apr 14 | Oct 26 | Apr 13 | Oct 26 |
| 1956 | Apr 20 | Nov 9 | Mar 16 | Nov 9 |
| 1955 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 1953 | Apr 19 | Nov 9 | Feb 22 | Nov 9 |
| 1951 | Apr 17 | no data | Mar 19 | 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.