Frost history / Ripley, TN
Ripley, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00407710, 1962 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 400 ft, 35.718, -89.499. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 29 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Mar 7 (1977) | Oct 8 (1978) |
| Latest | Apr 16 (2014) | Nov 28 (2004) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 31 | 40 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Mar 21 | Nov 20 | Mar 21 | Nov 21 |
| 2015 | Mar 29 | Nov 22 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Mar 27 | Oct 25 | Mar 27 | Nov 9 |
| 2012 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 2010 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Mar 13 | Nov 27 | Mar 4 | Nov 27 |
| 2005 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 28 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 2002 | Mar 23 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 2001 | Mar 27 | Oct 27 | Mar 27 | Nov 20 |
| 2000 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 1999 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Nov 29 |
| 1998 | no data | Nov 5 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 1996 | Apr 6 | Nov 2 | Mar 11 | Nov 2 |
| 1995 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 1993 | Apr 2 | Oct 29 | Mar 14 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Apr 2 | Nov 5 | Mar 20 | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Nov 1 | Mar 31 | Nov 1 |
| 1990 | Apr 8 | Oct 30 | Mar 20 | Dec 4 |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | Nov 3 | Mar 9 | Nov 17 |
| 1981 | Mar 12 | Oct 24 | Mar 6 | Nov 21 |
| 1980 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 | Mar 14 | Nov 20 |
| 1979 | Mar 25 | Nov 7 | Feb 26 | Nov 29 |
| 1978 | Mar 25 | Oct 8 | Mar 6 | Oct 8 |
| 1977 | Mar 7 | Nov 12 | Mar 1 | Nov 13 |
| 1976 | Mar 17 | Oct 18 | Feb 8 | Oct 28 |
| 1975 | Apr 6 | Nov 14 | Mar 15 | Nov 14 |
| 1974 | Mar 26 | Oct 21 | Mar 25 | Nov 15 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | Nov 6 | Mar 1 | Nov 10 |
| 1972 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 1971 | Apr 8 | Nov 7 | Apr 6 | Nov 7 |
| 1970 | Apr 3 | Nov 6 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Apr 1 | Nov 5 | Mar 14 | Nov 14 |
| 1968 | Apr 6 | Nov 9 | Mar 25 | Nov 13 |
| 1967 | Mar 19 | Nov 4 | Mar 19 | Nov 6 |
| 1966 | Mar 29 | Nov 2 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 1965 | Mar 28 | Oct 25 | Mar 22 | Nov 30 |
| 1964 | Apr 9 | Nov 20 | Mar 31 | Nov 20 |
| 1963 | Mar 23 | Nov 3 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 |
| 1962 | no data | Nov 5 | no data | Dec 6 |
"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.