Frost history / Lafayette 13 Se, LA
Lafayette 13 Se, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053960, 2003 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 35 ft, 30.092, -91.873. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 23 | Nov 27 |
| Earliest | Jan 8 (2017) | Oct 16 (2023) |
| Latest | Apr 19 (2023) | Dec 15 (2004) |
| Trend | 11.1 days later per decade | 11.0 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 22 | 22, 3 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 26 and the median first fall date is Dec 7.
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 | none | Jan 17 | none |
| 2023 | Apr 19 | Oct 16 | Mar 20 | none |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 18 | Feb 6 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Feb 20 | none | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 | none | none |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 | none | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Jan 19 | Nov 15 | Jan 19 | none |
| 2017 | Jan 8 | Dec 8 | Jan 8 | Dec 9 |
| 2016 | Feb 7 | Nov 21 | none | none |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | none | Feb 18 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 4 | Nov 14 | Feb 13 | Nov 19 |
| 2013 | Mar 3 | Nov 27 | none | Nov 28 |
| 2012 | Feb 12 | Dec 13 | Jan 14 | none |
| 2011 | Feb 13 | Nov 28 | Feb 12 | Dec 8 |
| 2010 | Mar 3 | Nov 27 | Feb 16 | Dec 7 |
| 2009 | Mar 2 | Dec 5 | Jan 21 | Dec 29 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Dec 1 | Jan 3 | Dec 2 |
| 2007 | Mar 5 | Dec 4 | none | none |
| 2006 | Feb 14 | Nov 21 | none | Dec 4 |
| 2005 | Jan 24 | Nov 18 | Jan 24 | none |
| 2004 | Feb 7 | Dec 15 | Jan 28 | Dec 25 |
| 2003 | Jan 25 | Nov 24 | Jan 24 | 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.