Channing 2, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00411649, 1967 to 2006, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,790 ft, 35.683, -102.330. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 20	Oct 21
Earliest	Mar 28 (2001)	Sep 25 (2000)
Latest	May 3 (2005)	Nov 5 (1994)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data	19	18

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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
2006	Apr 26	no data	Apr 8	no data
2005	May 3	Oct 24	Mar 19	Nov 16
2004	Apr 14	Oct 13	Apr 14	Nov 3
2003	Apr 9	Oct 26	Apr 9	Oct 26
2002	Apr 5	Oct 23	Apr 5	Oct 30
2001	Mar 28	no data	Mar 27	no data
2000	Apr 17	Sep 25	Apr 16	Nov 7
1999	Apr 18	Sep 29	Apr 17	Nov 2
1998	Apr 20	Oct 18	Apr 1	Nov 10
1997	Apr 26	Oct 25	Apr 14	Oct 25
1996	Apr 20	Oct 19	Apr 7	Oct 22
1995	Apr 27	Oct 24	Apr 20	Nov 2
1994	Apr 30	Nov 5	Apr 29	Nov 9
1973	Apr 27	Nov 2	Apr 10	Nov 20
1972	Apr 4	Oct 19	Apr 1	Nov 1
1971	Apr 7	Oct 29	Apr 7	Nov 6
1970	May 1	Oct 15	Apr 5	Oct 28
1969	Apr 28	Oct 12	Mar 30	Oct 13
1968	Apr 7	Oct 18	Apr 5	Nov 11
1967	no data	Oct 30	no data	Oct 31

"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.