Last Frost Day

Frost history / Port Aransas 32 Nne, TX

Port Aransas 32 Nne, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00023906, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 15 ft, 28.304, -96.823. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianFeb 25Nov 20
EarliestJan 25 (2018)Oct 28 (2017)
LatestApr 7 (2009)Dec 22 (2022)
Trend2.9 days earlier per decade3.3 days earlier per decade
Years with data1716, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 11 and the median first fall date is Nov 27.

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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15201020202008: Feb 12009: Apr 72010: Feb 162011: Feb 132012: Mar 42013: Mar 32014: Mar 132015: Feb 262016: Feb 252017: Feb 162018: Jan 252019: Mar 62020: Feb 282021: Feb 202022: Mar 132023: Feb 182024: Feb 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26Jan 10201020202008: Nov 152009: Dec 42010: Nov 272011: Nov 32012: Dec 122013: Nov 272014: Nov 172015: Nov 222016: Nov 202017: Oct 282018: Nov 142019: Nov 122022: Dec 222023: Nov 12024: Nov 20

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
2024Feb 19Nov 20Jan 17Nov 21
2023Feb 18Nov 1Jan 26Dec 10
2022Mar 13Dec 22Mar 13Dec 22
2021Feb 20noneFeb 20none
2020Feb 28no dataFeb 28no data
2019Mar 6Nov 12noneNov 16
2018Jan 25Nov 14Jan 25none
2017Feb 16Oct 28Jan 8Oct 28
2016Feb 25Nov 20Feb 25none
2015Feb 26Nov 22Feb 18Nov 22
2014Mar 13Nov 17Feb 13Dec 25
2013Mar 3Nov 27Mar 3Nov 27
2012Mar 4Dec 12Jan 14Dec 12
2011Feb 13Nov 3Feb 10Nov 4
2010Feb 16Nov 27Jan 10Dec 26
2009Apr 7Dec 4Mar 2Dec 5
2008Feb 1Nov 15Jan 3Nov 16

"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.