Frost history / Garden City, TX
Garden City, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413445, 1966 to 2002, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,655 ft, 31.867, -101.481. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 6 | Nov 3 |
| Earliest | Mar 17 (1967) | Oct 8 (1970) |
| Latest | Apr 28 (1973) | Dec 8 (1998) |
| Trend | 0.5 days later per decade | 2.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 26 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Mar 27 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 2001 | Mar 19 | no data | Mar 18 | no data |
| 2000 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 1999 | Apr 17 | Nov 24 | Mar 15 | Nov 25 |
| 1998 | Mar 22 | Dec 8 | Mar 21 | Dec 8 |
| 1997 | Apr 15 | Oct 27 | Apr 14 | Oct 27 |
| 1996 | Apr 6 | Oct 22 | Mar 28 | Nov 2 |
| 1995 | Apr 22 | Nov 3 | Mar 7 | Nov 11 |
| 1994 | Apr 7 | Oct 9 | Apr 7 | Nov 27 |
| 1993 | Apr 6 | no data | Mar 14 | no data |
| 1992 | Mar 23 | Oct 8 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 |
| 1989 | Apr 11 | Oct 18 | Mar 22 | Oct 18 |
| 1988 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 15 |
| 1987 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 | Apr 2 | Nov 9 |
| 1986 | Mar 21 | Nov 10 | Mar 20 | Nov 10 |
| 1985 | no data | Nov 19 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 1981 | Mar 23 | Oct 26 | Mar 23 | Nov 10 |
| 1980 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 1978 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 1977 | Apr 6 | Oct 12 | Mar 23 | Nov 10 |
| 1976 | Apr 1 | Oct 8 | Apr 1 | Oct 20 |
| 1975 | Apr 4 | Nov 13 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 |
| 1974 | Apr 6 | Nov 15 | Apr 6 | Nov 25 |
| 1973 | Apr 28 | Nov 25 | Apr 11 | Nov 28 |
| 1972 | Apr 2 | Nov 2 | Apr 1 | Nov 14 |
| 1971 | Apr 8 | Nov 10 | Apr 8 | Nov 19 |
| 1970 | Apr 6 | Oct 8 | Apr 5 | Oct 27 |
| 1969 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 | Mar 26 | Nov 19 |
| 1968 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 |
| 1967 | Mar 17 | Nov 4 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 |
| 1966 | Mar 25 | Oct 19 | Mar 25 | Nov 2 |
"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.