Selma 13 Wnw, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00063858, 2005 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 193 ft, 32.457, -87.242. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 20	Nov 4
Earliest	Feb 20 (2012)	Oct 19 (2022)
Latest	Apr 16 (2014)	Nov 23 (2024)
Trend	6.1 days earlier per decade	2.4 days later per decade
Years with data	19	20

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.

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	Mar 20	Nov 23	Mar 19	Nov 29
2023	Mar 21	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 1
2022	Mar 14	Oct 19	Mar 13	Oct 20
2021	Apr 3	Nov 7	Feb 23	Nov 14
2020	Feb 28	Nov 3	Feb 28	Dec 1
2019	Mar 7	Nov 1	Mar 7	Nov 9
2018	Mar 22	Nov 15	Mar 15	Nov 15
2017	Mar 16	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 20
2016	Feb 28	Nov 20	Feb 27	Nov 20
2015	Mar 8	Nov 14	Mar 8	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Mar 26	Nov 2
2013	Mar 28	Oct 26	Mar 27	Nov 13
2012	Feb 20	Nov 8	Feb 13	Nov 24
2011	Mar 11	Oct 21	Feb 14	Oct 30
2010	Mar 7	Nov 6	Mar 7	Nov 6
2009	Apr 8	Nov 19	Mar 3	Nov 27
2008	Mar 25	Oct 28	Mar 25	Oct 29
2007	Apr 8	Nov 7	Mar 5	Nov 8
2006	Mar 27	Nov 4	Mar 26	Nov 23
2005	no data	Oct 26	no data	Nov 17

"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.