Frost history / Pauls Valley 4 Wsw, OK
Pauls Valley 4 Wsw, OK: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00346926, 1951 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 940 ft, 34.725, -97.281. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 5 | Oct 29 |
| Earliest | Mar 1 (1986) | Oct 7 (1952) |
| Latest | Apr 20 (1956) | Nov 27 (1965) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 56 | 52 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Mar 23 | Oct 29 | Mar 23 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | no data | Apr 8 | no data |
| 2008 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 | Mar 25 | Nov 9 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Oct 26 | Mar 5 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | Oct 13 | Mar 25 | Nov 2 |
| 2005 | Apr 2 | Oct 24 | Mar 17 | Oct 24 |
| 2004 | Apr 15 | Nov 4 | Feb 27 | Nov 25 |
| 2003 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Mar 27 | Nov 4 | Mar 27 | Nov 19 |
| 2001 | Apr 1 | Nov 20 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 2000 | Apr 5 | Oct 9 | Mar 13 | Oct 9 |
| 1999 | Apr 19 | Oct 20 | Mar 26 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 21 | no data |
| 1997 | Apr 14 | Nov 7 | Apr 14 | Nov 7 |
| 1996 | Apr 6 | Nov 2 | Mar 26 | Nov 2 |
| 1995 | Mar 9 | Oct 24 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | Apr 7 | Oct 26 | Apr 6 | Nov 28 |
| 1993 | Apr 2 | Oct 23 | Apr 2 | Oct 30 |
| 1992 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 | Apr 2 | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Nov 1 | Mar 10 | Nov 1 |
| 1990 | Apr 7 | Oct 22 | Mar 25 | Nov 9 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 19 | no data | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Apr 19 | Nov 16 | Mar 19 | Nov 17 |
| 1987 | Apr 5 | Oct 12 | Apr 3 | Nov 11 |
| 1986 | Mar 1 | no data | Mar 1 | no data |
| 1985 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1983 | Apr 16 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 1982 | Mar 26 | Oct 20 | Mar 7 | Nov 4 |
| 1981 | Mar 19 | Oct 23 | Mar 19 | Nov 10 |
| 1980 | Apr 15 | Oct 25 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 |
| 1978 | Mar 27 | no data | Mar 17 | no data |
| 1977 | Mar 22 | Oct 12 | Mar 22 | Nov 10 |
| 1976 | Apr 1 | Oct 20 | Mar 13 | Oct 20 |
| 1975 | Apr 4 | Oct 26 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 |
| 1974 | Apr 5 | Nov 15 | Mar 24 | Nov 15 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1972 | Apr 1 | Nov 11 | Mar 31 | Nov 22 |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Nov 7 | Apr 7 | Nov 7 |
| 1970 | Apr 5 | Nov 2 | Apr 2 | Nov 15 |
| 1969 | Mar 26 | Nov 1 | Mar 26 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Apr 5 | Nov 4 | Apr 5 | Nov 9 |
| 1967 | Mar 17 | Oct 28 | Mar 8 | Nov 4 |
| 1966 | Apr 6 | Oct 16 | Mar 24 | Nov 2 |
| 1965 | Mar 27 | Nov 27 | Mar 27 | Nov 29 |
| 1964 | Apr 9 | Oct 20 | Mar 30 | Nov 20 |
| 1963 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 | Mar 7 | Nov 2 |
| 1962 | Apr 2 | Nov 4 | Apr 2 | Nov 9 |
| 1961 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 | Mar 1 | Nov 17 |
| 1960 | Mar 23 | Oct 20 | Mar 19 | Nov 10 |
| 1959 | Apr 14 | Oct 28 | Mar 22 | Nov 6 |
| 1958 | Mar 31 | Nov 1 | Mar 20 | Nov 18 |
| 1957 | Apr 14 | Oct 26 | Apr 14 | Oct 26 |
| 1956 | Apr 20 | Nov 8 | Mar 17 | Nov 9 |
| 1955 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 |
| 1954 | Apr 1 | Oct 30 | Apr 1 | Nov 2 |
| 1953 | Apr 20 | Nov 9 | Mar 4 | Nov 9 |
| 1952 | Apr 10 | Oct 7 | Mar 23 | Oct 8 |
| 1951 | Apr 9 | Nov 1 | Mar 19 | Nov 2 |
"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.