Frost history / Alice Intl Ap, TX
Alice Intl Ap, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00012932, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 173 ft, 27.741, -98.025. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 13 | Dec 11 |
| Earliest | Jan 8 (2017) | Nov 3 (1951) |
| Latest | Mar 24 (1952) | Dec 30 (2003) |
| Trend | 4.2 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 27, 5 with no freeze | 28, 9 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 22 and the median first fall date is Dec 22.
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 | Jan 17 | none | Jan 17 | none |
| 2023 | no data | Dec 11 | no data | none |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Dec 22 | Feb 5 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Feb 20 | none | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 | none | none |
| 2019 | Feb 13 | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 2018 | Jan 17 | Nov 14 | Jan 4 | none |
| 2017 | Jan 8 | Dec 8 | Jan 8 | none |
| 2016 | Feb 7 | Dec 19 | none | none |
| 2015 | none | none | none | none |
| 2014 | Feb 13 | none | none | none |
| 2013 | none | none | none | none |
| 2012 | Jan 13 | none | none | none |
| 2011 | Feb 12 | Dec 7 | Feb 11 | Dec 7 |
| 2010 | Jan 10 | Nov 27 | Jan 10 | Dec 26 |
| 2009 | Jan 14 | Dec 4 | none | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 4 | Dec 11 | Jan 3 | none |
| 2007 | Feb 16 | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 2006 | Feb 12 | Dec 1 | none | Dec 1 |
| 2005 | none | none | none | none |
| 2004 | none | Dec 15 | none | Dec 24 |
| 2003 | Feb 25 | Dec 30 | none | none |
| 2002 | Mar 5 | none | Mar 4 | none |
| 2001 | Jan 20 | none | none | none |
| 1954 | Feb 8 | Dec 30 | Jan 22 | none |
| 1953 | none | Dec 15 | none | Dec 23 |
| 1952 | Mar 24 | Dec 15 | none | none |
| 1951 | Mar 13 | Nov 3 | Feb 4 | Dec 22 |
"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.