Frost history / Sheffield, TX
Sheffield, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00418252, 1962 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,175 ft, 30.689, -101.827. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 30 | Nov 6 |
| Earliest | Mar 4 (1977) | Oct 19 (1989) |
| Latest | Apr 14 (1997) | Dec 8 (1998) |
| Trend | 1.5 days later per decade | 1.3 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 36 | 38 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 16 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.
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.
Chart
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 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 2010 | Apr 9 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 2007 | Apr 8 | Oct 23 | Mar 5 | Nov 26 |
| 2005 | Apr 2 | Nov 16 | Apr 2 | Nov 16 |
| 2002 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2001 | no data | Nov 28 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 1999 | Mar 14 | no data | Feb 23 | no data |
| 1998 | Apr 1 | Dec 8 | Mar 10 | Dec 8 |
| 1997 | Apr 14 | Oct 27 | Apr 13 | Oct 27 |
| 1996 | Apr 7 | Oct 23 | Mar 28 | Oct 23 |
| 1995 | Mar 8 | Nov 12 | Mar 8 | Nov 29 |
| 1994 | Mar 29 | Nov 21 | Mar 9 | Nov 28 |
| 1993 | Mar 14 | Oct 22 | Mar 14 | Oct 25 |
| 1992 | Mar 13 | Nov 5 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Oct 31 | Feb 26 | Nov 1 |
| 1990 | Mar 25 | Oct 22 | Mar 4 | Nov 29 |
| 1989 | Mar 23 | Oct 19 | Mar 22 | Oct 19 |
| 1988 | Apr 11 | Nov 17 | Mar 20 | Nov 17 |
| 1987 | Apr 9 | Nov 11 | Apr 3 | Nov 11 |
| 1986 | Mar 21 | Nov 13 | Mar 21 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Mar 31 | Nov 4 | Feb 15 | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Mar 29 | Nov 19 | Mar 8 | Nov 28 |
| 1983 | Apr 9 | Nov 16 | Apr 9 | Nov 28 |
| 1982 | Mar 7 | Nov 4 | Mar 7 | Nov 4 |
| 1981 | Mar 24 | Nov 10 | Feb 23 | Nov 10 |
| 1980 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 | Mar 19 | Oct 30 |
| 1979 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 1978 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Dec 4 |
| 1977 | Mar 4 | no data | Mar 4 | no data |
| 1975 | Apr 1 | no data | Mar 30 | no data |
| 1974 | Apr 5 | Nov 17 | Feb 26 | Nov 25 |
| 1973 | Apr 9 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 1972 | Apr 1 | Nov 2 | Mar 31 | Nov 16 |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Nov 20 | Apr 7 | Dec 3 |
| 1970 | Apr 6 | Oct 29 | Apr 6 | Oct 29 |
| 1969 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 | Mar 18 | Nov 3 |
| 1968 | Mar 23 | Nov 10 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 |
| 1967 | Mar 9 | Nov 1 | Mar 8 | Nov 4 |
| 1966 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 |
| 1965 | Mar 26 | Nov 29 | Mar 26 | Nov 29 |
| 1964 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1963 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | Nov 29 |
| 1962 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Dec 6 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.