Frost history / Slidell Ap, LA
Slidell Ap, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053865, 1994 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 27 ft, 30.343, -89.822. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 5 | Nov 19 |
| Earliest | Jan 31 (2018) | Oct 19 (2022) |
| Latest | Apr 9 (2000) | Dec 16 (1998) |
| Trend | 3.5 days earlier per decade | 5.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 30 | 31, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 7 and the median first fall date is Dec 4.
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 19 | Nov 30 | Jan 21 | none |
| 2023 | Mar 20 | Nov 2 | Mar 20 | none |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Oct 19 | Mar 13 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Feb 21 | none | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 | none | none |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 | none | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Jan 31 | Nov 15 | Jan 19 | none |
| 2017 | Feb 16 | Nov 24 | Jan 9 | none |
| 2016 | Feb 10 | Nov 20 | Feb 5 | none |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 23 | Feb 18 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 4 | Nov 2 | Jan 30 | Nov 18 |
| 2013 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 | none | Nov 28 |
| 2012 | Feb 12 | Nov 25 | Jan 14 | Dec 22 |
| 2011 | Feb 15 | Nov 11 | Feb 13 | Dec 1 |
| 2010 | Mar 6 | Nov 6 | Feb 25 | Dec 7 |
| 2009 | Mar 4 | Nov 27 | Feb 6 | Dec 29 |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Oct 29 | Jan 21 | Nov 22 |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | Nov 16 | Mar 5 | Dec 17 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Nov 21 | Feb 13 | Dec 4 |
| 2005 | Mar 18 | Nov 18 | Jan 24 | Nov 18 |
| 2004 | Feb 19 | Dec 14 | Jan 29 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 24 | Jan 25 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | Mar 6 | Nov 29 | Mar 5 | Dec 7 |
| 2001 | Feb 6 | Nov 21 | Jan 23 | Dec 26 |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Nov 15 | Feb 6 | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | Mar 4 | Nov 3 | Feb 22 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 12 | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 1997 | Feb 16 | Nov 16 | Feb 11 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | Mar 22 | Dec 2 | Mar 11 | Dec 18 |
| 1995 | Feb 12 | Nov 12 | Feb 9 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | no data | Dec 11 | no data | 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.