Frost history / Palestine 6 Wnw, TX
Palestine 6 Wnw, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053968, 2003 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 383 ft, 31.780, -95.723. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 7 | Nov 18 |
| Earliest | Feb 7 (2004) | Oct 25 (2005) |
| Latest | Apr 15 (2014) | Dec 12 (2021) |
| Trend | 5.7 days earlier per decade | 5.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 21 | 22 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 28.
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 | Dec 11 | Feb 18 | none |
| 2023 | Mar 19 | Nov 27 | Feb 18 | Dec 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 12 | Mar 12 | Nov 13 |
| 2021 | Feb 20 | Dec 12 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Nov 30 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 | Mar 6 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Feb 12 | Nov 14 | Jan 18 | Nov 14 |
| 2017 | Feb 16 | Oct 28 | Jan 8 | Dec 8 |
| 2016 | Mar 21 | Nov 20 | Feb 4 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 23 | Mar 7 | none |
| 2014 | Apr 15 | Nov 13 | Mar 4 | Nov 13 |
| 2013 | Mar 26 | Nov 13 | Mar 26 | Nov 27 |
| 2012 | Feb 25 | Nov 13 | Feb 12 | Dec 11 |
| 2011 | Mar 6 | Nov 4 | Feb 12 | Nov 28 |
| 2010 | Mar 21 | Nov 26 | Feb 25 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Apr 7 | Dec 3 | Apr 7 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Oct 28 | Mar 8 | Nov 16 |
| 2007 | Mar 5 | Nov 16 | Mar 4 | Dec 4 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Nov 20 | Mar 24 | Dec 1 |
| 2005 | Mar 17 | Oct 25 | Jan 24 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Feb 7 | Nov 30 | Feb 7 | Dec 1 |
| 2003 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | Nov 24 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.