Frost history / Candelaria, TX
Candelaria, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00411416, 1964 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,877 ft, 30.138, -104.682. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 25 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Feb 13 (1986) | Oct 8 (1976) |
| Latest | May 16 (2004) | Nov 29 (1978) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.0 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 41 | 42 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 16.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2008 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | Oct 23 | Mar 5 | Nov 27 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | no data | Feb 13 | no data |
| 2005 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 2004 | May 16 | Nov 3 | May 16 | Dec 1 |
| 2003 | Apr 2 | Nov 19 | Mar 31 | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Mar 12 | Nov 16 | Mar 6 | Nov 17 |
| 2001 | Mar 16 | Nov 20 | Feb 3 | Nov 28 |
| 2000 | Mar 12 | Nov 9 | Feb 5 | Nov 9 |
| 1999 | Mar 15 | Oct 21 | Feb 14 | Nov 25 |
| 1998 | Apr 1 | no data | Mar 11 | no data |
| 1997 | Mar 3 | Oct 27 | Feb 27 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Mar 19 | Oct 23 | Mar 11 | Nov 26 |
| 1994 | Mar 29 | Oct 11 | Mar 11 | Nov 20 |
| 1993 | Apr 16 | Oct 30 | Apr 9 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Mar 14 | no data | Jan 24 | no data |
| 1991 | Apr 29 | Nov 2 | Mar 29 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Mar 17 | Nov 5 | Mar 17 | Nov 5 |
| 1989 | Mar 23 | Oct 19 | Mar 22 | Nov 9 |
| 1988 | Apr 2 | Nov 16 | Apr 2 | Nov 16 |
| 1987 | Apr 4 | Nov 11 | Mar 31 | Nov 11 |
| 1986 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 |
| 1985 | Apr 3 | Nov 17 | Mar 31 | Dec 4 |
| 1984 | Apr 3 | Nov 11 | Mar 8 | Nov 27 |
| 1983 | Apr 14 | Nov 16 | Apr 14 | Nov 20 |
| 1982 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 | Mar 8 | Nov 4 |
| 1981 | Mar 30 | Nov 2 | Feb 23 | Nov 10 |
| 1980 | Apr 16 | Oct 30 | Apr 15 | Oct 30 |
| 1979 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 | Feb 7 | Nov 1 |
| 1978 | Mar 18 | Nov 29 | Mar 17 | Dec 4 |
| 1977 | Apr 5 | Oct 13 | Mar 12 | Nov 2 |
| 1976 | Apr 18 | Oct 8 | Apr 18 | Nov 14 |
| 1975 | Mar 18 | Nov 13 | Feb 25 | Nov 13 |
| 1974 | Mar 1 | Nov 25 | Feb 27 | Nov 25 |
| 1973 | Apr 9 | Oct 31 | Apr 9 | Nov 20 |
| 1972 | Apr 2 | Nov 10 | Feb 9 | Nov 22 |
| 1971 | Mar 15 | Nov 18 | Mar 7 | Dec 6 |
| 1970 | Apr 2 | Oct 29 | Feb 17 | Nov 15 |
| 1969 | Mar 26 | Nov 3 | Mar 17 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Mar 25 | Nov 9 | Mar 23 | Nov 9 |
| 1967 | Mar 7 | Oct 31 | Mar 7 | Oct 31 |
| 1966 | Apr 6 | Nov 2 | Mar 5 | Nov 28 |
| 1965 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 | Mar 6 | Dec 5 |
| 1964 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | 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.