Cross, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00412125, 2003 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 285 ft, 28.598, -98.555. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 5	Nov 18
Earliest	Jan 18 (2005)	Oct 28 (2008)
Latest	Mar 27 (2013)	Dec 15 (2022)
Trend	4.8 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	21	20

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 23 and the median first fall date is Dec 3.

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
2025	Mar 11	Oct 30	Feb 21	none
2024	Feb 14	Nov 21	Jan 19	Dec 11
2023	Feb 19	Nov 1	Feb 19	Dec 11
2022	Mar 14	Dec 15	Mar 14	Dec 23
2021	Feb 21	Nov 23	Feb 21	none
2020	Feb 28	Dec 1	Feb 28	Dec 1
2019	Mar 7	no data	Mar 7	no data
2018	Jan 31	Nov 14	Jan 26	Nov 14
2017	Feb 1	Oct 29	Jan 9	none
2016	Feb 10	no data	Feb 8	no data
2015	Mar 7	Nov 23	none	Nov 23
2014	no data	Nov 18	no data	none
2013	Mar 27	Nov 14	Mar 7	Dec 15
2012	Mar 5	Dec 11	Jan 15	Dec 12
2011	Mar 12	Nov 11	Feb 14	Nov 11
2010	Mar 23	Oct 30	Feb 26	Nov 27
2009	Mar 3	Nov 18	Mar 3	Dec 5
2008	Mar 21	Oct 28	Feb 28	Nov 16
2007	Mar 7	Nov 17	Mar 7	Dec 5
2006	Mar 26	no data	Mar 25	no data
2005	Jan 18	Nov 17	Jan 18	Nov 18
2004	Feb 28	Nov 24	Feb 27	Dec 16
2003	no data	Nov 24	no data	Nov 25

"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.