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Frost history / Erick 4ESE Mesonet, OK

Erick 4ESE Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00342948, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,978 ft, 35.205, -99.803. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 14Oct 29
EarliestMar 5 (2012)Oct 8 (2012)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 20 (2024)
Trend3.6 days later per decade4.8 days later per decade
Years with data1617

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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 30May 15201020202010: Apr 82011: May 32012: Mar 52013: May 42014: Apr 152015: Apr 102016: Apr 32017: Mar 152018: Apr 162019: Apr 142020: May 92021: Apr 212022: Apr 262023: Apr 242024: Mar 282025: Apr 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202009: Oct 272010: Oct 292011: Nov 32012: Oct 82013: Oct 172014: Nov 12015: Nov 82016: Nov 182017: Oct 272018: Oct 152019: Oct 112020: Oct 162021: Oct 302022: Nov 52023: Oct 292024: Nov 202025: Oct 29

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 29Apr 7Oct 30
2024Mar 28Nov 20Mar 28Nov 26
2023Apr 24Oct 29Apr 7Oct 30
2022Apr 26Nov 5Apr 14Nov 11
2021Apr 21Oct 30Apr 21Nov 13
2020May 9Oct 16Apr 15Oct 24
2019Apr 14Oct 11Mar 31Oct 12
2018Apr 16Oct 15Apr 15Nov 9
2017Mar 15Oct 27Mar 15Oct 27
2016Apr 3Nov 18Apr 2Nov 19
2015Apr 10Nov 8Apr 4Nov 20
2014Apr 15Nov 1Apr 15Nov 11
2013May 4Oct 17Apr 24Nov 7
2012Mar 5Oct 8Mar 5Oct 27
2011May 3Nov 3Apr 16Nov 3
2010Apr 8Oct 29Apr 8Nov 5
2009no dataOct 27no dataNov 17

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.