Frost history / Emory, TX
Emory, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00412902, 1962 to 2012, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 484 ft, 32.871, -95.780. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 21 | Nov 12 |
| Earliest | Feb 16 (1985) | Oct 20 (1966) |
| Latest | Apr 13 (1997) | Dec 13 (1998) |
| Trend | 1.3 days earlier per decade | 1.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 34 | 39 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 23.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Feb 26 | no data | Feb 26 | no data |
| 2011 | Mar 16 | Nov 11 | Mar 6 | Nov 28 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 6 | Mar 3 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | no data | Dec 3 | no data | Dec 3 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Dec 3 |
| 2004 | Feb 27 | no data | Feb 16 | no data |
| 2003 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Mar 24 | Nov 20 | Mar 5 | Nov 28 |
| 2001 | Feb 23 | Nov 21 | Feb 18 | Dec 10 |
| 2000 | Mar 13 | Nov 14 | Feb 6 | Nov 14 |
| 1999 | Mar 15 | Nov 3 | Mar 15 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Mar 22 | Dec 13 | Mar 12 | Dec 22 |
| 1997 | Apr 13 | Nov 7 | Feb 15 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Mar 26 | Nov 3 | Mar 21 | Nov 26 |
| 1994 | Apr 1 | Nov 28 | Mar 10 | Nov 30 |
| 1993 | Apr 2 | Oct 30 | Mar 13 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | no data | Nov 5 | no data | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | Feb 27 | Nov 1 | Feb 16 | Nov 2 |
| 1990 | Mar 21 | Nov 29 | Jan 30 | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | Oct 20 | Apr 12 | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Mar 19 | Nov 16 | Mar 18 | Dec 17 |
| 1987 | Apr 3 | Nov 10 | Apr 2 | Dec 15 |
| 1986 | Mar 21 | Nov 12 | Mar 1 | Nov 12 |
| 1985 | Feb 16 | Nov 28 | Feb 13 | Dec 1 |
| 1984 | Mar 21 | Nov 21 | Mar 1 | Nov 21 |
| 1983 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 1979 | Mar 2 | no data | Feb 26 | no data |
| 1978 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Dec 4 |
| 1977 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 1976 | Mar 17 | Oct 21 | Feb 9 | Nov 5 |
| 1975 | Apr 4 | Nov 14 | Mar 15 | Nov 14 |
| 1974 | Mar 24 | Nov 15 | Feb 27 | Nov 15 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | Dec 7 | Feb 20 | Dec 7 |
| 1972 | Mar 4 | Nov 16 | Feb 20 | Nov 22 |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Nov 24 | Mar 9 | none |
| 1970 | Mar 23 | Nov 16 | Feb 27 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Mar 14 | Nov 15 | Mar 12 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Mar 23 | Nov 4 | Mar 13 | Nov 12 |
| 1967 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 |
| 1966 | no data | Oct 20 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 1963 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 1962 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Dec 7 |
"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.