Frost history / Terlingua, TX
Terlingua, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00418924, 2007 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,633 ft, 29.349, -103.595. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 6 | Nov 26 |
| Earliest | Jan 30 (2018) | Oct 27 (2019) |
| Latest | Mar 25 (2022) | Dec 20 (2021) |
| Trend | 3.8 days earlier per decade | 4.8 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 11 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 13 and the median first fall date is Dec 6.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Mar 25 | Nov 27 | Feb 17 | Dec 16 |
| 2021 | Mar 2 | Dec 20 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Oct 27 | Jan 25 | Dec 19 |
| 2018 | Jan 30 | Nov 13 | Jan 20 | Nov 13 |
| 2017 | Feb 1 | no data | Jan 31 | no data |
| 2016 | Feb 11 | Dec 8 | Feb 8 | Dec 8 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Dec 4 | Jan 9 | Dec 15 |
| 2014 | Mar 18 | Nov 18 | Feb 13 | Dec 24 |
| 2013 | Mar 15 | Nov 24 | Mar 11 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Feb 14 | Nov 11 | Feb 14 | Nov 28 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 27 | Mar 22 | Dec 1 |
| 2009 | no data | Dec 2 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | no data | Dec 2 | no data | Dec 6 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | Dec 16 |
"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.