Frost history / Sanderson, TX
Sanderson, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00418022, 1962 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,788 ft, 30.141, -102.392. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 22 | Nov 12 |
| Earliest | Feb 10 (2001) | Oct 9 (1976) |
| Latest | May 3 (2013) | Dec 8 (1998) |
| Trend | 1.2 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 39 | 41 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 19.
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 3 | no data | Mar 3 | no data |
| 2012 | Mar 4 | no data | Feb 9 | no data |
| 2011 | Mar 6 | Oct 29 | Mar 6 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 14 | Mar 21 | Nov 18 |
| 2009 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Nov 17 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Nov 8 | Mar 8 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 2003 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Mar 23 | Nov 17 | Mar 5 | Dec 10 |
| 2001 | Feb 10 | Nov 28 | Feb 2 | Nov 28 |
| 2000 | Feb 27 | Nov 7 | Feb 5 | Nov 19 |
| 1999 | Feb 21 | Nov 3 | Feb 15 | Nov 25 |
| 1998 | Mar 12 | Dec 8 | Mar 11 | Dec 12 |
| 1997 | Apr 14 | Oct 27 | Feb 22 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 6 | no data | Mar 10 | no data |
| 1995 | Mar 10 | Nov 12 | Mar 9 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Mar 10 | Nov 28 | Mar 10 | Nov 30 |
| 1993 | Mar 13 | Oct 30 | Mar 13 | Oct 30 |
| 1992 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | Feb 20 | Nov 1 | Jan 31 | Nov 3 |
| 1990 | Mar 2 | Nov 5 | Feb 5 | Dec 2 |
| 1989 | Mar 23 | Oct 19 | Mar 23 | Dec 8 |
| 1988 | Mar 22 | Nov 17 | Mar 19 | Nov 20 |
| 1987 | Apr 3 | Nov 11 | Apr 3 | Nov 11 |
| 1986 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Mar 31 | Dec 2 | Feb 15 | Dec 3 |
| 1981 | Mar 19 | Nov 10 | Feb 23 | Nov 10 |
| 1980 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 1979 | Mar 25 | Nov 13 | Mar 6 | Nov 13 |
| 1978 | Mar 18 | Dec 4 | Mar 17 | Dec 4 |
| 1977 | Mar 13 | Nov 10 | Mar 7 | Nov 10 |
| 1976 | Mar 31 | Oct 9 | Mar 31 | Oct 20 |
| 1975 | Mar 31 | Nov 13 | Mar 30 | Nov 13 |
| 1974 | Mar 25 | Nov 13 | Feb 27 | Nov 15 |
| 1973 | no data | Nov 21 | no data | Nov 21 |
| 1972 | Mar 31 | Nov 16 | Mar 31 | Nov 26 |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Nov 20 | Mar 8 | Dec 3 |
| 1970 | Apr 6 | Oct 28 | Mar 14 | Oct 29 |
| 1969 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 | Mar 13 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 1967 | Mar 8 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 1966 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 | Mar 5 | Nov 28 |
| 1965 | Mar 25 | Nov 29 | Mar 20 | Dec 24 |
| 1964 | no data | Nov 19 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 1963 | Mar 6 | Nov 28 | Mar 5 | Dec 2 |
| 1962 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Dec 11 |
"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.