Frost history / Battiest, OK
Battiest, OK: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00340567, 1985 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 822 ft, 34.385, -94.898. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 14 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Mar 11 (2012) | Sep 20 (2006) |
| Latest | May 5 (2013) | Nov 25 (2004) |
| Trend | 2.9 days later per decade | 1.7 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 35 | 38 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 17 | Mar 28 | Oct 17 |
| 2023 | Apr 18 | Oct 31 | Mar 21 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 15 | Oct 18 | Apr 10 | Oct 19 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 5 | Apr 22 | Nov 6 |
| 2020 | Apr 19 | Oct 30 | Apr 16 | Nov 16 |
| 2019 | Apr 13 | Oct 12 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 17 | Nov 10 | Apr 17 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | Oct 25 | Mar 9 | Oct 29 |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Mar 28 | Nov 8 | Mar 8 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | May 2 | Nov 1 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 |
| 2013 | May 5 | Oct 20 | Apr 25 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 11 | Oct 8 | Mar 10 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Oct 20 | Apr 6 | Oct 20 |
| 2010 | Apr 10 | Oct 29 | Mar 30 | Oct 29 |
| 2009 | Apr 15 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Nov 25 |
| 2008 | Apr 28 | Oct 25 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | Apr 30 | Oct 30 | Apr 30 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | no data | Sep 20 | no data | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | May 2 | no data | Mar 18 | no data |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | Nov 25 | Mar 8 | Nov 25 |
| 2003 | Apr 11 | Oct 26 | Apr 10 | Nov 23 |
| 2002 | Apr 5 | Oct 14 | Mar 28 | Nov 6 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 6 | Mar 25 | Nov 20 |
| 1999 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 | Mar 16 | Dec 22 |
| 1998 | Mar 23 | Nov 6 | Mar 22 | Dec 9 |
| 1997 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 | Apr 14 | Nov 15 |
| 1996 | Apr 30 | Oct 19 | Apr 7 | Nov 2 |
| 1995 | no data | Oct 21 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | Apr 6 | Oct 26 | Apr 6 | Oct 26 |
| 1993 | Apr 22 | Oct 22 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 |
| 1992 | Apr 4 | Nov 4 | Apr 3 | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Nov 1 | Mar 30 | Nov 2 |
| 1990 | Apr 8 | Oct 19 | Apr 7 | Nov 6 |
| 1989 | Apr 11 | Oct 20 | Apr 11 | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Mar 30 | Nov 13 | Mar 19 | Nov 17 |
| 1987 | Apr 5 | Nov 11 | Apr 5 | Nov 11 |
| 1986 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 | Mar 22 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Nov 20 |
"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.