Frost history / Santa Rosa 3 Wnw, TX
Santa Rosa 3 Wnw, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00418059, 1987 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 50 ft, 26.266, -97.871. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jan 28 | Dec 16 |
| Earliest | Jan 4 (2002) | Oct 31 (1993) |
| Latest | Mar 8 (1989) | Dec 27 (2010) |
| Trend | 3.8 days earlier per decade | 6.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27, 17 with no freeze | 29, 19 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 10 and the median first fall date is Dec 23.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | none | none | none | none |
| 2022 | Feb 5 | Dec 23 | none | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Feb 21 | none | Feb 16 | none |
| 2020 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2019 | no data | Dec 19 | no data | none |
| 2017 | Jan 9 | no data | none | no data |
| 2016 | none | none | none | none |
| 2010 | Jan 10 | Dec 27 | Jan 10 | none |
| 2009 | none | Dec 5 | none | none |
| 2008 | none | none | none | none |
| 2007 | none | none | none | none |
| 2006 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2005 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2004 | none | Dec 25 | none | Dec 25 |
| 2003 | none | none | none | none |
| 2002 | Jan 4 | none | Jan 4 | none |
| 2001 | Jan 21 | none | none | none |
| 2000 | none | none | none | none |
| 1999 | none | none | none | none |
| 1998 | none | none | none | none |
| 1997 | Jan 15 | Dec 14 | none | none |
| 1996 | Feb 5 | Dec 19 | none | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | none | none | none | none |
| 1994 | none | none | none | none |
| 1993 | none | Oct 31 | none | none |
| 1992 | none | none | none | none |
| 1991 | none | none | none | none |
| 1990 | none | Dec 8 | none | Dec 24 |
| 1989 | Mar 8 | Dec 13 | none | Dec 22 |
| 1988 | Feb 12 | none | none | none |
| 1987 | no data | none | no data | none |
"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.