Frost history / Manchester #2, TN
Manchester #2, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00405595, 2000 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,070 ft, 35.516, -86.088. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 13 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Mar 20 (2017) | Oct 7 (2000) |
| Latest | May 10 (2020) | Nov 14 (2003) |
| Trend | 4.1 days later per decade | 2.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 19 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 28 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 17 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 21 | Nov 1 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 18 | Oct 21 | Apr 18 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Mar 20 | Oct 30 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 |
| 2016 | Apr 10 | Nov 10 | Mar 6 | Nov 11 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 21 | Oct 25 | Mar 29 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 13 | Nov 1 | Mar 7 | Nov 1 |
| 2011 | Mar 26 | Oct 22 | Mar 26 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | Mar 28 | Oct 7 | Mar 7 | Oct 31 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 18 | Mar 22 | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | Apr 17 | Oct 29 | Mar 26 | Oct 29 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | Oct 30 | Apr 9 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Apr 6 | Oct 13 | Mar 28 | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | Apr 26 | Oct 24 | Mar 19 | Oct 24 |
| 2004 | Apr 16 | Nov 6 | Mar 24 | Nov 15 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 |
| 2002 | Apr 6 | Nov 1 | Mar 28 | Nov 1 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 16 | Apr 18 | Oct 27 |
| 2000 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 8 |
"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.