Frost history / Grandfalls 3SSE, TX
Grandfalls 3SSE, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413680, 1954 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,425 ft, 31.303, -102.822. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 1 | Nov 2 |
| Earliest | Mar 7 (1954) | Oct 15 (1997) |
| Latest | May 2 (2013) | Dec 7 (1998) |
| Trend | 5.2 days later per decade | 1.3 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 32 | 34 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | May 2 | no data | May 2 | no data |
| 2012 | Mar 21 | Oct 29 | Mar 10 | Nov 4 |
| 2011 | May 2 | Oct 28 | Mar 6 | Oct 28 |
| 2010 | Apr 7 | no data | Mar 22 | no data |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 2005 | Apr 1 | no data | Mar 16 | no data |
| 2003 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 1998 | Apr 1 | Dec 7 | Apr 1 | Dec 8 |
| 1997 | Apr 14 | Oct 15 | Apr 12 | Oct 27 |
| 1996 | Apr 6 | no data | Mar 20 | no data |
| 1995 | Apr 23 | no data | Mar 9 | no data |
| 1994 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 1993 | no data | Oct 22 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 1992 | Apr 4 | Nov 2 | Apr 4 | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Oct 31 | Feb 23 | Nov 1 |
| 1990 | Mar 26 | Oct 22 | Mar 15 | Nov 5 |
| 1989 | Mar 23 | Oct 19 | Mar 23 | Oct 19 |
| 1988 | Apr 12 | Nov 16 | Mar 22 | Nov 16 |
| 1987 | Apr 14 | Nov 10 | Apr 4 | Nov 10 |
| 1986 | Mar 21 | Nov 13 | Mar 20 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Mar 29 | Nov 11 | Mar 9 | Nov 27 |
| 1983 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1982 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 | Mar 7 | Nov 4 |
| 1981 | Apr 5 | Nov 1 | Feb 24 | Nov 10 |
| 1980 | Apr 16 | Oct 25 | Apr 16 | Oct 29 |
| 1979 | Apr 5 | Oct 23 | Apr 4 | Oct 31 |
| 1978 | Apr 11 | Nov 17 | Mar 17 | Dec 4 |
| 1977 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 | Mar 14 | Nov 10 |
| 1972 | Apr 1 | Nov 1 | Apr 1 | Nov 16 |
| 1971 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1970 | Apr 6 | Oct 28 | Apr 2 | Oct 29 |
| 1969 | Mar 26 | Nov 3 | Mar 26 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Mar 24 | Nov 9 | Mar 23 | Dec 1 |
| 1967 | Mar 10 | Nov 1 | Mar 9 | Dec 3 |
| 1966 | Mar 7 | Nov 1 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 |
| 1965 | Mar 27 | Nov 27 | Mar 21 | Nov 29 |
| 1964 | Mar 28 | Nov 20 | Mar 22 | Nov 20 |
| 1954 | Mar 7 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
"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.