Last Frost Day

Frost history / Norman 2NW Mesonet, OK

Norman 2NW Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00346382, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,181 ft, 35.236, -97.465. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 29Nov 5
EarliestMar 7 (2015)Oct 12 (2019)
LatestMay 3 (2013)Nov 22 (2024)
Trend3.7 days later per decade2.6 days earlier per decade
Years with data1617

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 12.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202010: Mar 222011: Mar 152012: Mar 92013: May 32014: Apr 152015: Mar 72016: Apr 22017: Mar 152018: Apr 162019: Mar 312020: Apr 182021: Apr 212022: Apr 92023: Mar 192024: Mar 282025: Mar 16

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202009: Nov 182010: Nov 52011: Nov 32012: Oct 272013: Nov 122014: Nov 12015: Nov 132016: Nov 192017: Oct 272018: Nov 92019: Oct 122020: Oct 262021: Nov 132022: Oct 192023: Oct 302024: Nov 222025: Nov 9

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
2025Mar 16Nov 9Feb 23Nov 10
2024Mar 28Nov 22Feb 28Nov 26
2023Mar 19Oct 30Mar 19Oct 30
2022Apr 9Oct 19Mar 12Nov 12
2021Apr 21Nov 13Feb 23Nov 19
2020Apr 18Oct 26Mar 6Nov 30
2019Mar 31Oct 12Mar 16Oct 30
2018Apr 16Nov 9Apr 7Nov 9
2017Mar 15Oct 27Mar 2Oct 28
2016Apr 2Nov 19Mar 25Nov 19
2015Mar 7Nov 13Mar 6Nov 21
2014Apr 15Nov 1Mar 24Nov 11
2013May 3Nov 12Mar 26Nov 12
2012Mar 9Oct 27Feb 25Oct 28
2011Mar 15Nov 3Mar 15Nov 4
2010Mar 22Nov 5Mar 22Nov 25
2009no dataNov 18no dataNov 18

"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.