Frost history / Watonga 7W Mesonet, OK
Watonga 7W Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00349370, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,696 ft, 35.842, -98.526. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 31 | Nov 1 |
| Earliest | Mar 8 (2012) | Oct 15 (2018) |
| Latest | Apr 24 (2013) | Nov 21 (2015) |
| Trend | 0.6 days later per decade | 6.4 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 17 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 16 | Nov 9 | Feb 22 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Mar 27 | Oct 16 | Mar 27 | Nov 28 |
| 2023 | Apr 6 | Oct 29 | Mar 27 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Mar 12 | Nov 11 | Mar 12 | Nov 11 |
| 2021 | Apr 21 | Nov 13 | Mar 1 | Dec 6 |
| 2020 | Apr 15 | Oct 24 | Apr 3 | Oct 24 |
| 2019 | Apr 12 | Oct 28 | Mar 31 | Oct 29 |
| 2018 | Apr 16 | Oct 15 | Apr 16 | Nov 9 |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | Mar 20 | Nov 19 | Mar 20 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Apr 4 | Nov 21 | Mar 6 | Nov 21 |
| 2014 | Apr 15 | Nov 1 | Apr 15 | Nov 11 |
| 2013 | Apr 24 | Oct 19 | Apr 24 | Nov 12 |
| 2012 | Mar 8 | Oct 26 | Feb 14 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 | Mar 6 | Nov 17 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 18 | Mar 22 | Nov 25 |
| 2009 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Dec 3 |
"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.