Frost history / Benavides 2, TX
Benavides 2, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00410690, 1962 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 380 ft, 27.597, -98.416. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 26 | Nov 27 |
| Earliest | Jan 12 (1969) | Oct 28 (2017) |
| Latest | Apr 9 (1973) | Dec 22 (1983) |
| Trend | 2.6 days earlier per decade | 2.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 31 | 38, 2 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 11 and the median first fall date is Dec 10.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Feb 21 | none | Feb 21 | none |
| 2019 | Jan 24 | Nov 13 | none | Dec 19 |
| 2018 | Jan 18 | Nov 14 | Jan 17 | Nov 14 |
| 2017 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | none |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 19 | no data | none |
| 2015 | Feb 18 | no data | none | no data |
| 2014 | Feb 13 | Nov 18 | Jan 25 | none |
| 2013 | Jan 31 | Nov 26 | none | Dec 15 |
| 2012 | Jan 15 | Dec 10 | Jan 14 | Dec 10 |
| 2011 | Mar 6 | Nov 10 | Feb 19 | Nov 27 |
| 2010 | Feb 24 | Nov 6 | Jan 10 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Mar 2 | Dec 4 | Feb 23 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Mar 4 | Nov 16 | Feb 2 | none |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | Nov 24 | none | Dec 14 |
| 2006 | Mar 24 | Dec 1 | Feb 13 | none |
| 2005 | no data | Nov 29 | no data | none |
| 2004 | no data | Dec 15 | no data | Dec 15 |
| 2000 | no data | Dec 7 | no data | Dec 17 |
| 1990 | no data | Dec 5 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 1989 | Mar 9 | Dec 9 | Mar 8 | Dec 13 |
| 1988 | no data | Nov 28 | no data | none |
| 1985 | Feb 12 | Dec 6 | Feb 12 | Dec 14 |
| 1984 | Mar 7 | Nov 28 | Jan 19 | Dec 7 |
| 1983 | Jan 27 | Dec 22 | none | Dec 23 |
| 1982 | Mar 7 | Dec 16 | Mar 6 | Dec 16 |
| 1981 | Feb 12 | Nov 21 | Feb 12 | Dec 18 |
| 1980 | Mar 3 | Nov 19 | Mar 3 | Nov 19 |
| 1979 | Feb 26 | Nov 14 | Jan 24 | Nov 30 |
| 1978 | Mar 5 | Dec 9 | Mar 5 | Dec 9 |
| 1977 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Dec 22 |
| 1976 | Feb 2 | no data | Jan 28 | no data |
| 1974 | Feb 26 | Nov 26 | Feb 26 | Nov 26 |
| 1973 | Apr 9 | Nov 29 | Feb 11 | Nov 29 |
| 1972 | Mar 3 | Nov 15 | Feb 9 | Dec 1 |
| 1971 | Mar 5 | Dec 3 | Mar 5 | none |
| 1970 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | none |
| 1969 | Jan 12 | Nov 21 | Jan 6 | none |
| 1968 | Mar 13 | no data | Feb 25 | no data |
| 1967 | Feb 9 | no data | Feb 7 | no data |
| 1966 | Mar 6 | Dec 11 | Jan 31 | Dec 11 |
| 1965 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1962 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | none |
"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.