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Stillwater Rgnl Ap, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003965, 1997 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 984 ft, 36.163, -97.089. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 8Oct 27
EarliestMar 10 (2012)Oct 4 (2010)
LatestMay 3 (2013)Nov 24 (2004)
Trend1.2 days later per decade1.5 days later per decade
Years with data2728

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 152000201020201997: Apr 141998: Apr 171999: Mar 262000: Apr 82001: Apr 182002: Apr 52003: Apr 92004: Mar 162006: Mar 282007: Apr 82008: Apr 142009: Apr 72010: Mar 222011: Apr 52012: Mar 102013: May 32014: Apr 152015: Apr 102016: Apr 22017: Mar 152018: Apr 192019: Mar 312020: Apr 182021: Apr 212022: Apr 142023: Apr 172024: Mar 28

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020201997: Nov 31998: Nov 101999: Oct 242000: Oct 82001: Oct 162002: Oct 142003: Nov 62004: Nov 242005: Oct 242006: Oct 222007: Nov 62008: Oct 272009: Nov 182010: Oct 42011: Oct 192012: Oct 82013: Oct 192014: Oct 312015: Nov 82016: Nov 132017: Oct 272018: Nov 92019: Oct 112020: Oct 262021: Nov 132022: Oct 182023: Oct 172024: Nov 22

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2024Mar 28Nov 22Mar 28Nov 26
2023Apr 17Oct 17Mar 19Oct 30
2022Apr 14Oct 18Mar 12Oct 19
2021Apr 21Nov 13Mar 2Nov 19
2020Apr 18Oct 26Mar 6Nov 13
2019Mar 31Oct 11Mar 16Oct 31
2018Apr 19Nov 9Apr 16Nov 9
2017Mar 15Oct 27Mar 14Oct 28
2016Apr 2Nov 13Mar 25Nov 19
2015Apr 10Nov 8Apr 4Nov 21
2014Apr 15Oct 31Mar 25Nov 11
2013May 3Oct 19Mar 26Nov 12
2012Mar 10Oct 8Mar 4Oct 27
2011Apr 5Oct 19Apr 5Oct 20
2010Mar 22Oct 4Mar 22Nov 5
2009Apr 7Nov 18Apr 7Nov 26
2008Apr 14Oct 27Apr 14Oct 28
2007Apr 8Nov 6Apr 8Nov 22
2006Mar 28Oct 22Mar 24Nov 2
2005no dataOct 24no dataOct 25
2004Mar 16Nov 24Feb 27Nov 25
2003Apr 9Nov 6Apr 9Nov 6
2002Apr 5Oct 14Mar 26Nov 16
2001Apr 18Oct 16Mar 20Oct 27
2000Apr 8Oct 8Mar 12Oct 8
1999Mar 26Oct 24Mar 26Nov 25
1998Apr 17Nov 10Mar 21Dec 8
1997Apr 14Nov 3Apr 14Nov 7

"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.