Frost history / Kermit, TX
Kermit, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00414775, 2008 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,830 ft, 31.841, -103.089. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 27 | Nov 12 |
| Earliest | Mar 3 (2017) | Oct 26 (2020) |
| Latest | May 3 (2013) | Nov 19 (2017) |
| Trend | 17.8 days earlier per decade | 3.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 11 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 13.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Apr 5 | no data | Mar 3 | no data |
| 2020 | Mar 6 | Oct 26 | Feb 28 | Oct 27 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2018 | Mar 22 | Nov 13 | Feb 27 | Nov 13 |
| 2017 | Mar 3 | Nov 19 | Mar 2 | Nov 19 |
| 2016 | Mar 21 | Nov 19 | Mar 21 | Dec 7 |
| 2015 | Mar 9 | no data | Mar 9 | no data |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 12 | Apr 16 | Nov 12 |
| 2013 | May 3 | Nov 13 | May 3 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 20 | Nov 12 | Feb 13 | Nov 12 |
| 2011 | Mar 31 | Nov 3 | Feb 28 | Nov 3 |
| 2010 | Apr 9 | Nov 13 | Apr 9 | Nov 18 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 2008 | no data | Nov 7 | no data | Nov 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.