Frost history / Odessa Schlemeyer Fld, TX
Odessa Schlemeyer Fld, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003031, 1999 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,001 ft, 31.921, -102.387. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 18 | Nov 12 |
| Earliest | Feb 17 (2023) | Oct 25 (2019) |
| Latest | Apr 8 (2010) | Dec 11 (2021) |
| Trend | 6.0 days earlier per decade | 2.2 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 25 | 26 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 26.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Feb 18 | Nov 29 | Feb 18 | none |
| 2023 | Feb 17 | Oct 30 | Feb 17 | Dec 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 | Mar 12 | Nov 12 |
| 2021 | Mar 18 | Dec 11 | Mar 2 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Oct 26 | Feb 27 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Apr 1 | Oct 25 | Mar 5 | Oct 30 |
| 2018 | Mar 20 | Nov 12 | Feb 26 | Nov 12 |
| 2017 | Feb 25 | Nov 7 | Jan 26 | Nov 7 |
| 2016 | Mar 20 | Nov 19 | Feb 6 | Dec 8 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 6 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Nov 12 |
| 2013 | Apr 4 | Nov 13 | Mar 25 | Dec 5 |
| 2012 | Mar 3 | Nov 12 | Feb 12 | Dec 10 |
| 2011 | Mar 30 | Nov 3 | Feb 12 | Nov 27 |
| 2010 | Apr 8 | Nov 13 | Mar 21 | Nov 26 |
| 2009 | Mar 28 | Oct 30 | Mar 1 | Nov 25 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Nov 7 | Mar 8 | Nov 21 |
| 2007 | Apr 8 | Nov 15 | Apr 8 | Nov 26 |
| 2006 | Mar 24 | Nov 15 | Mar 24 | Nov 30 |
| 2005 | Mar 17 | Nov 15 | Feb 3 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | Feb 26 | Nov 12 | Feb 15 | Nov 30 |
| 2003 | Mar 30 | Nov 23 | Mar 5 | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Mar 26 | Nov 27 | Mar 22 | Nov 28 |
| 2001 | Mar 16 | Nov 20 | Feb 17 | Nov 27 |
| 2000 | Mar 17 | Nov 7 | Mar 17 | Dec 11 |
| 1999 | Mar 14 | Nov 24 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 |
"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.