Fort Smith Frost/Freeze Records

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Record and Mean Dates of Last Occurrence in Spring and First Occurrence in Fall

For the Period January 1901 through May 2020

Temperature (°F)	Mean Last Occurrence in Spring	Mean First Occurrence in Fall	Mean Days between Occurrences
32° Frost/Light Freeze	March 26th	November 5th	223
28° Hard Freeze	March 13th	November 17th	248
24° Killing Freeze	February 26th	December 1st	277

	Record Last Occurrence in Spring			Record First Occurrence in Fall
Temperature (°F)	Earliest	Latest		Earliest	Latest
32° Frost/Light Freeze	23 Feb 1907	17 Apr 1921, 1951		8 Oct 1952	2 Dec 1931
28° Hard Freeze	8 Feb 1907	15 Apr 1983		18 Oct 1948	26 Dec 1933
24° Killing Freeze	15 Jan 1931, 1999	8 Apr 2007		29 Oct 1952	3 Feb 1923

Record Number of Days Between Last (Spring) and First (Fall) Occurrences
Temperature (°F)		Spring	Fewest Number of Days	Fall		Spring	Greatest Number of Days	Fall
32° Frost/Light Freeze		9 Apr 2000	182	9 Oct 2000		28 Feb 1905	273	29 Nov 1905
28° Hard Freeze		11 Apr 1989	191	20 Oct 1989		9 Feb 2017	300	7 Dec 2017
24° Killing Freeze		4 Apr 1987	220	11 Nov 1987		15 Jan 1931	379	30 Jan 1932

Updated: June 22, 2020

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