Frost history / Winchester 5SE, TN
Winchester 5SE, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00409800, 1986 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 941 ft, 35.161, -86.031. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 12 | Oct 28 |
| Earliest | Mar 10 (1995) | Oct 7 (1991) |
| Latest | May 9 (2020) | Dec 1 (2020) |
| Trend | 0.6 days earlier per decade | 4.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 34 | 35 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Mar 15 | Oct 18 | Mar 14 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 14 | Apr 2 | Nov 23 |
| 2020 | May 9 | Dec 1 | Mar 1 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 17 | Nov 1 | Mar 7 | Nov 9 |
| 2018 | Apr 17 | Nov 10 | Apr 8 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 2016 | Mar 29 | Nov 10 | Mar 21 | Nov 10 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 20 | Oct 25 | Mar 28 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 12 | Oct 31 | Mar 10 | Oct 31 |
| 2011 | May 6 | Oct 22 | Mar 25 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 27 | Oct 30 | Mar 7 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 18 | Apr 8 | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | Apr 16 | Oct 28 | Mar 25 | Oct 29 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Nov 3 | Apr 8 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Apr 9 | Oct 13 | Mar 27 | Oct 15 |
| 2005 | Apr 25 | Oct 24 | Mar 18 | Oct 28 |
| 2004 | Apr 15 | Nov 6 | Apr 6 | Dec 2 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 7 | Mar 28 | Oct 28 |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Oct 8 | Apr 9 | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 | Mar 27 | Oct 24 |
| 1998 | Apr 11 | Nov 6 | Mar 13 | Nov 6 |
| 1997 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 | Mar 16 | Nov 24 |
| 1996 | Apr 11 | Oct 19 | Apr 10 | Nov 3 |
| 1995 | Mar 10 | Nov 4 | Mar 10 | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | Apr 1 | Oct 27 | Apr 1 | Nov 24 |
| 1993 | Apr 17 | Oct 28 | Mar 18 | Oct 28 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Oct 7 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Apr 13 | Oct 27 | Apr 8 | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | Apr 13 | Oct 20 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 |
| 1988 | Apr 20 | Oct 13 | Mar 19 | Nov 29 |
| 1987 | Apr 6 | Oct 22 | Apr 6 | Oct 22 |
| 1986 | Apr 24 | Nov 13 | Mar 23 | Nov 13 |
"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.