Last Frost Day

Frost history / Turpin 4 Sse, OK

Turpin 4 Sse, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00349017, 1982 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,705 ft, 36.814, -100.864. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 18Oct 19
EarliestMar 22 (2012)Sep 21 (1983)
LatestMay 5 (2013)Nov 9 (1987)
Trend0.8 days earlier per decade6.4 days later per decade
Years with data1816

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 151990200020101983: Apr 191984: Apr 301985: Apr 51986: Apr 151988: Apr 231989: Apr 111990: Apr 121991: May 11992: Apr 31994: May 11995: Apr 281996: Apr 232007: Apr 172009: Apr 82010: Apr 92011: May 42012: Mar 222013: May 5

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 261990200020101982: Oct 111983: Sep 211984: Sep 291985: Sep 301987: Nov 91988: Oct 281989: Oct 181990: Oct 181991: Oct 51993: Oct 101994: Nov 52006: Oct 222007: Oct 192010: Oct 282011: Oct 282012: Oct 27

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
2013May 5no dataMay 5no data
2012Mar 22Oct 27Mar 11Oct 27
2011May 4Oct 28Apr 5Nov 3
2010Apr 9Oct 28Apr 3Nov 5
2009Apr 8no dataApr 8no data
2007Apr 17Oct 19Mar 6Nov 1
2006no dataOct 22no dataNov 1
1996Apr 23no dataApr 15no data
1995Apr 28no dataApr 12no data
1994May 1Nov 5Apr 7Nov 5
1993no dataOct 10no dataOct 27
1992Apr 3no dataApr 3no data
1991May 1Oct 5Mar 15Oct 29
1990Apr 12Oct 18Mar 27Nov 5
1989Apr 11Oct 18Apr 11Oct 18
1988Apr 23Oct 28Mar 25Oct 28
1987no dataNov 9no dataNov 9
1986Apr 15no dataApr 15no data
1985Apr 5Sep 30Mar 31Nov 2
1984Apr 30Sep 29Apr 27Nov 11
1983Apr 19Sep 21Apr 15Nov 10
1982no dataOct 11no dataOct 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.