Frost history / Wright Patman Dm & Lk, TX
Wright Patman Dm & Lk, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00419916, 1982 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 282 ft, 33.304, -94.158. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 8 | Nov 16 |
| Earliest | Jan 27 (2017) | Oct 9 (2000) |
| Latest | Apr 11 (1988) | Dec 4 (2009) |
| Trend | 5.7 days earlier per decade | 2.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 32 | 30 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 29.
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 | Mar 20 | Nov 24 | none | Dec 30 |
| 2022 | Mar 14 | Nov 13 | Feb 25 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Feb 21 | Nov 27 | Feb 21 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 23 | Dec 1 | Feb 8 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Feb 13 | no data | Jan 19 | no data |
| 2017 | Jan 27 | Oct 29 | Jan 9 | Dec 8 |
| 2010 | Mar 3 | no data | Feb 10 | no data |
| 2009 | Mar 4 | Dec 4 | Mar 1 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 9 | Nov 21 | Feb 14 | Dec 2 |
| 2007 | Mar 5 | Nov 16 | Feb 17 | Dec 4 |
| 2006 | Feb 21 | Nov 17 | Feb 21 | Nov 21 |
| 2005 | Feb 25 | Nov 17 | Jan 24 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Feb 18 | Dec 1 | Feb 13 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Mar 6 | Nov 24 | Feb 26 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | Mar 22 | Nov 23 | Mar 5 | Dec 6 |
| 2001 | Feb 20 | Nov 21 | Feb 11 | none |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Oct 9 | Mar 12 | Oct 10 |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Oct 25 | Feb 22 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Mar 13 | Nov 11 | Mar 13 | Dec 15 |
| 1997 | Feb 15 | Nov 4 | Feb 11 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 7 | Nov 26 | Apr 7 | Nov 28 |
| 1995 | Mar 10 | Nov 4 | Mar 9 | Nov 12 |
| 1994 | no data | Nov 30 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | no data | Mar 15 | no data |
| 1992 | Apr 2 | Nov 5 | Mar 11 | Nov 6 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Nov 1 | Feb 26 | Nov 2 |
| 1990 | Mar 4 | Nov 6 | Jan 26 | Nov 30 |
| 1988 | Apr 11 | Nov 17 | Mar 15 | Nov 23 |
| 1986 | Mar 22 | Nov 13 | Mar 1 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Feb 16 | Nov 8 | Feb 14 | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Mar 9 | Nov 21 | Mar 1 | Nov 22 |
| 1983 | Mar 22 | Nov 12 | Feb 8 | Dec 7 |
| 1982 | Mar 7 | no data | Feb 12 | no data |
"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.