Frost history / Olney, TX
Olney, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00416636, 1956 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,195 ft, 33.373, -98.766. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 26 | Nov 11 |
| Earliest | Mar 7 (1963) | Oct 18 (1959) |
| Latest | Apr 18 (1960) | Nov 30 (2004) |
| Trend | 1.0 days earlier per decade | 1.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 39 | 37 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 12 and the median first fall date is Nov 22.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Mar 7 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2010 | Mar 23 | Nov 6 | Mar 23 | Nov 26 |
| 2009 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Dec 3 |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Nov 16 | Mar 9 | Nov 21 |
| 2007 | Apr 8 | Nov 22 | Mar 5 | Nov 22 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 30 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 2003 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Nov 27 |
| 2000 | Mar 17 | no data | Feb 12 | no data |
| 1998 | Mar 21 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 1997 | Apr 14 | Oct 27 | Apr 13 | Nov 11 |
| 1996 | Mar 27 | Nov 24 | Mar 26 | Nov 24 |
| 1995 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Dec 9 |
| 1994 | Apr 6 | Nov 28 | Mar 12 | Nov 30 |
| 1993 | Mar 14 | Oct 29 | Mar 14 | Oct 30 |
| 1991 | Mar 15 | no data | Mar 8 | no data |
| 1990 | Apr 7 | Oct 22 | Feb 17 | Dec 4 |
| 1989 | Apr 11 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 1988 | Mar 30 | Nov 16 | Mar 19 | Nov 21 |
| 1987 | Apr 3 | Nov 10 | Apr 3 | Nov 11 |
| 1986 | Mar 21 | no data | Feb 22 | no data |
| 1985 | Mar 31 | no data | Feb 15 | no data |
| 1984 | Apr 5 | Nov 22 | Mar 9 | Nov 22 |
| 1983 | Apr 15 | Nov 11 | Mar 21 | Nov 27 |
| 1982 | Mar 7 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 1981 | Mar 19 | Nov 10 | Feb 13 | Nov 10 |
| 1980 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 1979 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 1977 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 1 | no data |
| 1976 | Mar 21 | Oct 20 | Feb 22 | Nov 13 |
| 1975 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 |
| 1974 | Mar 25 | Nov 25 | Mar 24 | Nov 29 |
| 1972 | Mar 31 | no data | Mar 2 | no data |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Nov 7 | Apr 7 | Dec 18 |
| 1970 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Nov 15 |
| 1969 | Mar 26 | Nov 15 | Mar 13 | Dec 1 |
| 1968 | Apr 5 | Nov 9 | Mar 23 | Nov 9 |
| 1967 | Mar 16 | Nov 3 | Mar 8 | Dec 3 |
| 1966 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 1965 | Mar 26 | Nov 29 | Mar 26 | Dec 25 |
| 1964 | Mar 26 | Nov 20 | Mar 26 | Nov 21 |
| 1963 | Mar 7 | Nov 24 | Mar 6 | Dec 11 |
| 1962 | Apr 2 | Nov 18 | Mar 14 | Dec 11 |
| 1961 | Mar 9 | no data | Mar 9 | no data |
| 1960 | Apr 18 | Nov 10 | Mar 18 | Nov 10 |
| 1959 | Apr 14 | Oct 18 | Mar 22 | Nov 6 |
| 1958 | Apr 11 | Nov 1 | Mar 26 | Nov 18 |
| 1957 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 1956 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Nov 9 |
"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.