Frost history / Sterling City, TX
Sterling City, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00418630, 1964 to 2017, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,280 ft, 31.835, -100.983. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 8 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Mar 4 (2017) | Oct 8 (2012) |
| Latest | May 3 (2013) | Nov 27 (1965) |
| Trend | 1.4 days earlier per decade | 0.5 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 43 | 44 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mar 4 | Oct 16 | Feb 7 | Nov 19 |
| 2016 | Apr 3 | Nov 19 | Feb 27 | Dec 8 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 12 | Apr 16 | Nov 12 |
| 2013 | May 3 | Nov 7 | Apr 19 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 5 | Oct 8 | Mar 5 | Oct 28 |
| 2011 | May 3 | Oct 29 | Apr 5 | Oct 29 |
| 2010 | Apr 9 | Oct 29 | Apr 9 | Nov 5 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 27 | Apr 8 | Nov 17 |
| 2008 | Mar 12 | Oct 23 | Mar 10 | Oct 23 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | Nov 22 | Apr 8 | Nov 26 |
| 2006 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 2005 | Apr 12 | Oct 25 | Apr 12 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 2003 | Apr 10 | Nov 19 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Mar 27 | Nov 6 | Mar 23 | Dec 6 |
| 2001 | no data | Nov 20 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 2000 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 1999 | Apr 17 | Nov 20 | Feb 23 | Nov 25 |
| 1998 | Mar 29 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 1997 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 1996 | Apr 8 | Oct 23 | Mar 28 | Nov 24 |
| 1995 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 1994 | Apr 6 | no data | Apr 6 | no data |
| 1993 | Mar 23 | Oct 22 | Mar 14 | Oct 30 |
| 1992 | Apr 3 | Nov 5 | Apr 3 | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 1990 | Mar 25 | Oct 10 | Mar 25 | Oct 22 |
| 1989 | Apr 11 | no data | Mar 22 | no data |
| 1988 | Apr 12 | Nov 6 | Apr 12 | Nov 16 |
| 1987 | Apr 16 | Nov 10 | Apr 7 | Nov 10 |
| 1983 | Apr 15 | no data | Apr 15 | no data |
| 1982 | Apr 11 | Nov 13 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 |
| 1981 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 1980 | Apr 13 | Oct 25 | Mar 18 | Oct 29 |
| 1979 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 1978 | Apr 12 | Nov 8 | Mar 17 | Nov 17 |
| 1977 | Mar 23 | Oct 12 | Mar 8 | Nov 10 |
| 1976 | Mar 31 | Oct 20 | Mar 21 | Oct 20 |
| 1975 | Apr 19 | Nov 13 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 |
| 1974 | Apr 5 | Nov 25 | Mar 24 | Nov 25 |
| 1973 | Apr 10 | Nov 16 | Apr 10 | Nov 25 |
| 1972 | Apr 1 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Nov 10 | Apr 7 | Nov 19 |
| 1970 | Apr 6 | Oct 28 | Apr 6 | Oct 29 |
| 1969 | Mar 27 | Nov 1 | Mar 26 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Apr 24 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 1967 | May 2 | Nov 4 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 |
| 1966 | Mar 25 | Oct 20 | Mar 24 | Nov 2 |
| 1965 | Mar 28 | Nov 27 | Mar 27 | Nov 28 |
| 1964 | Apr 8 | Nov 12 | Mar 25 | Nov 20 |
"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.