Frost history / La Tuna 1 S, TX
La Tuna 1 S, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00414931, 1951 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,870 ft, 31.984, -106.591. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 25 | Nov 8 |
| Earliest | Feb 22 (2009) | Oct 22 (1996) |
| Latest | Apr 24 (1968) | Nov 30 (2006) |
| Trend | 2.3 days earlier per decade | 1.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 48 | 48 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 18.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Mar 21 | Nov 13 | Feb 24 | Nov 26 |
| 2009 | Feb 22 | Nov 16 | Feb 20 | Nov 17 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Nov 8 | Feb 6 | Dec 10 |
| 2007 | Mar 5 | Nov 23 | Mar 5 | Dec 15 |
| 2006 | no data | Nov 30 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 2005 | Mar 27 | no data | Mar 16 | no data |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 2002 | Mar 6 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 2001 | Mar 16 | no data | Feb 16 | no data |
| 2000 | Mar 19 | Nov 8 | Feb 3 | Nov 9 |
| 1999 | Apr 5 | Nov 23 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 |
| 1998 | Apr 3 | Nov 22 | Mar 9 | Dec 8 |
| 1997 | Mar 2 | Oct 26 | Mar 2 | Nov 30 |
| 1996 | Mar 27 | Oct 22 | Mar 9 | Oct 23 |
| 1995 | no data | Nov 29 | no data | Dec 19 |
| 1994 | Mar 30 | Nov 5 | Mar 28 | Nov 21 |
| 1993 | Apr 14 | Oct 30 | Mar 13 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Mar 12 | Nov 7 | Feb 25 | Nov 7 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Oct 31 | Mar 17 | Nov 1 |
| 1990 | Mar 17 | Nov 4 | Mar 16 | Nov 28 |
| 1989 | Mar 22 | Oct 31 | Mar 7 | Nov 17 |
| 1988 | Apr 1 | Nov 16 | Apr 1 | Nov 16 |
| 1987 | Apr 1 | Nov 11 | Mar 31 | Nov 16 |
| 1986 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 1985 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 1984 | Mar 7 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 1983 | Apr 14 | no data | Apr 7 | no data |
| 1981 | no data | Oct 25 | no data | Nov 5 |
| 1980 | Apr 15 | no data | Mar 2 | no data |
| 1979 | Mar 11 | Oct 31 | Mar 4 | Nov 13 |
| 1978 | Mar 8 | Nov 28 | Feb 23 | Nov 28 |
| 1977 | Apr 4 | Nov 10 | Mar 7 | Nov 10 |
| 1976 | Mar 14 | Nov 12 | Mar 5 | Nov 13 |
| 1975 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 | Feb 24 | Nov 13 |
| 1974 | Mar 11 | Nov 25 | Feb 26 | Nov 26 |
| 1972 | Mar 29 | Nov 1 | Feb 13 | Nov 30 |
| 1971 | Mar 8 | Nov 20 | Mar 4 | Dec 13 |
| 1970 | Mar 21 | Oct 28 | Feb 4 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Mar 25 | Nov 19 | Mar 18 | Nov 19 |
| 1968 | Apr 24 | Nov 10 | Mar 24 | Dec 1 |
| 1967 | Apr 13 | Oct 31 | Mar 7 | Nov 1 |
| 1966 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 | Mar 6 | Nov 28 |
| 1965 | Mar 21 | Nov 28 | Mar 21 | Nov 30 |
| 1962 | Mar 22 | Nov 9 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 1961 | Apr 9 | Nov 3 | Mar 20 | Nov 14 |
| 1959 | Apr 13 | Nov 6 | Mar 19 | Nov 6 |
| 1958 | Mar 13 | Nov 18 | Feb 13 | Nov 18 |
| 1957 | Apr 3 | Nov 8 | Mar 25 | Nov 22 |
| 1956 | Apr 3 | Oct 26 | Mar 16 | Oct 31 |
| 1955 | Mar 29 | Nov 9 | Mar 28 | Nov 9 |
| 1954 | Mar 25 | Nov 5 | Mar 1 | Nov 19 |
| 1953 | Mar 6 | Oct 27 | Mar 5 | Nov 20 |
| 1952 | Mar 28 | Nov 7 | Mar 22 | Nov 10 |
| 1951 | Apr 12 | Nov 3 | Mar 29 | Nov 3 |
"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.