The cooler temperatures we had over the weekend were welcomed by all the area hunters who have braved brutal heat of late while in search of their quarry.
Many are hoping those hot, steamy afternoons will soon be a distant memory and those frost-covered mornings will become the norm as fall fades into winter.
And, the reality of it all, is that those mornings really aren't too distant. In fact, it was thirty seven years ago today, when Shreveport, Louisiana posted it's earliest recorded freeze of 32 degrees, on October 19, 1989.
Obviously that's the early end of the frost window and the earliest we have seen a true freeze in recent years was October 29, 2017. Conversely, last fall we saw the latest arrival of freezing temperatures in recent years, when it wasn't until December 14, 2025 that we got the season's first.
On average, according to the National Weather Service in Shreveport, the Shreveport area will see temperatures dip to the freezing point on November 15, which is significant to not only the area's hunters, but to anyone with plants and/or fruit trees, as a frost can prove disastrous to some species that might go unprotected while still sporting some of their summer/fall foliage.
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But, what hunters will notice, that those who live in the city suburbs might not have witnessed, is that it tends to get much cooler out in the woods in a deer stand, or on the water in a duck blind, than what typically occurs in town.
The National Weather Service writes of this, "Temperatures recorded at the National Weather Service office on clear, calm nights are normally two to five degrees warmer than those in the low-lying river bottom lands of the area." So, while we may average November 15 for the first frost in town, those areas away from the city, may see a frost much sooner, and temperatures much colder, and hunters are usually the first to notice.
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