Frost history / Andalusia Opp Ap, AL
Andalusia Opp Ap, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053843, 2007 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 310 ft, 31.309, -86.394. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 3 | Nov 26 |
| Earliest | Feb 10 (2016) | Nov 2 (2023) |
| Latest | Mar 27 (2013) | Dec 10 (2017) |
| Trend | 6.8 days later per decade | 2.2 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 15, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 26 and the median first fall date is Dec 15.
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 20 | Nov 30 | Jan 21 | none |
| 2023 | Mar 20 | Nov 2 | none | none |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 18 | Jan 30 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Feb 20 | none | Feb 16 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 | Jan 22 | Dec 26 |
| 2019 | Mar 7 | Nov 12 | none | none |
| 2018 | Mar 15 | Nov 28 | Jan 19 | none |
| 2017 | Mar 16 | Dec 10 | Jan 9 | none |
| 2016 | Feb 10 | Dec 10 | none | none |
| 2013 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 | none | none |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 | Feb 13 | none |
| 2011 | Feb 14 | no data | Jan 23 | no data |
| 2010 | Mar 7 | Nov 28 | Feb 17 | Dec 7 |
| 2009 | no data | Dec 5 | no data | none |
| 2008 | no data | Nov 19 | no data | Nov 22 |
| 2007 | Feb 19 | Nov 17 | Feb 19 | none |
"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.