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Frost history / Bessie 4WNW Mesonet, OK

Bessie 4WNW Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00340684, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,676 ft, 35.402, -99.058. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 6Oct 30
EarliestMar 3 (2012)Oct 15 (2018)
LatestApr 24 (2013)Nov 21 (2015)
Trend8.3 days later per decade4.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data1617

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202010: Mar 222011: Mar 302012: Mar 32013: Apr 242014: Apr 152015: Apr 42016: Mar 252017: Mar 152018: Apr 162019: Apr 122020: Apr 152021: Apr 212022: Mar 312023: Apr 72024: Mar 282025: Apr 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202009: Oct 272010: Nov 52011: Nov 32012: Oct 262013: Nov 122014: Nov 12015: Nov 212016: Nov 182017: Oct 272018: Oct 152019: Oct 282020: Oct 242021: Nov 132022: Nov 112023: Oct 292024: Oct 162025: Oct 30

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 7Oct 30Mar 20Nov 10
2024Mar 28Oct 16Feb 28Nov 26
2023Apr 7Oct 29Mar 19Oct 30
2022Mar 31Nov 11Mar 12Nov 11
2021Apr 21Nov 13Mar 1Nov 22
2020Apr 15Oct 24Mar 21Oct 24
2019Apr 12Oct 28Mar 31Oct 28
2018Apr 16Oct 15Apr 15Nov 9
2017Mar 15Oct 27Mar 15Oct 27
2016Mar 25Nov 18Mar 20Nov 19
2015Apr 4Nov 21Mar 6Nov 22
2014Apr 15Nov 1Mar 25Nov 11
2013Apr 24Nov 12Apr 24Nov 12
2012Mar 3Oct 26Feb 21Oct 27
2011Mar 30Nov 3Mar 6Nov 17
2010Mar 22Nov 5Mar 22Nov 25
2009no dataOct 27no dataDec 1

"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.