Frost history / Tilden 4 Sse, TX
Tilden 4 Sse, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00419031, 1958 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 345 ft, 28.411, -98.529. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 25 | Nov 30 |
| Earliest | Jan 17 (2005) | Oct 31 (1993) |
| Latest | Apr 2 (1987) | Dec 23 (1998) |
| Trend | 3.7 days earlier per decade | 0.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 38 | 37 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 7 and the median first fall date is Dec 9.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Feb 25 | no data | Jan 10 | no data |
| 2009 | Feb 23 | no data | Jan 12 | no data |
| 2008 | Feb 1 | Dec 6 | Feb 1 | none |
| 2006 | Feb 19 | no data | Feb 13 | no data |
| 2005 | Jan 17 | Nov 29 | Jan 17 | Nov 29 |
| 1998 | no data | Dec 23 | no data | Dec 23 |
| 1997 | no data | Dec 13 | no data | Dec 13 |
| 1995 | Mar 8 | no data | none | no data |
| 1994 | Feb 11 | Dec 11 | Feb 2 | none |
| 1993 | Mar 13 | Oct 31 | none | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Feb 25 | Nov 5 | Jan 19 | Nov 27 |
| 1991 | Feb 1 | Nov 20 | Jan 31 | Nov 23 |
| 1990 | Jan 24 | Dec 4 | none | Dec 4 |
| 1989 | Mar 8 | Dec 11 | Mar 7 | Dec 11 |
| 1988 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | none |
| 1987 | Apr 2 | Dec 14 | none | none |
| 1986 | Mar 26 | Dec 12 | Feb 12 | none |
| 1984 | Feb 9 | Nov 22 | Jan 19 | none |
| 1983 | Jan 26 | no data | none | no data |
| 1982 | Mar 7 | Dec 12 | Feb 10 | none |
| 1981 | Feb 12 | Dec 15 | Feb 12 | Dec 18 |
| 1980 | Mar 3 | Nov 28 | Mar 3 | none |
| 1979 | Feb 26 | Nov 14 | Jan 25 | Nov 30 |
| 1978 | Mar 5 | Dec 9 | Feb 22 | Dec 9 |
| 1977 | Feb 27 | Nov 10 | Jan 20 | Dec 22 |
| 1976 | Feb 24 | Nov 28 | Feb 23 | Nov 29 |
| 1975 | Feb 25 | Nov 13 | Feb 7 | Nov 14 |
| 1974 | Feb 27 | Nov 26 | Feb 27 | Nov 26 |
| 1972 | Feb 10 | Nov 26 | Feb 5 | Dec 16 |
| 1971 | Mar 20 | no data | Feb 11 | no data |
| 1970 | Feb 4 | Nov 5 | Feb 4 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1968 | Mar 22 | Nov 19 | Feb 24 | Dec 23 |
| 1967 | Feb 23 | Dec 23 | Feb 7 | Dec 23 |
| 1966 | Mar 6 | Nov 28 | Feb 5 | Nov 29 |
| 1965 | Mar 21 | Nov 30 | Mar 4 | none |
| 1964 | Feb 23 | Dec 14 | Feb 8 | Dec 15 |
| 1963 | Feb 16 | Dec 15 | Feb 15 | Dec 23 |
| 1962 | Mar 16 | Dec 6 | Mar 2 | none |
| 1961 | Feb 8 | Dec 13 | Jan 29 | Dec 24 |
| 1960 | Mar 18 | Nov 30 | Feb 26 | Dec 21 |
| 1959 | Mar 6 | Nov 7 | Jan 23 | Nov 7 |
| 1958 | no data | Dec 11 | 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.