Frost history / Bainbridge Intl Paper, GA
Bainbridge Intl Paper, GA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00090586, 1978 to 1995, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 190 ft, 30.823, -84.618. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 14 | Nov 13 |
| Earliest | Feb 26 (1989) | Oct 21 (1989) |
| Latest | Apr 8 (1990) | Dec 6 (1986) |
| Trend | 6.9 days later per decade | 4.9 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 16 and the median first fall date is Dec 2.
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.
Chart
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Mar 10 | no data | Feb 10 | no data |
| 1994 | Mar 18 | Nov 24 | Feb 5 | none |
| 1993 | Mar 16 | Nov 1 | Mar 16 | Nov 2 |
| 1992 | Mar 24 | Nov 14 | Feb 10 | Dec 3 |
| 1991 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 | Feb 17 | Nov 5 |
| 1990 | Apr 8 | Oct 27 | Jan 14 | Dec 6 |
| 1989 | Feb 26 | Oct 21 | Feb 26 | Dec 4 |
| 1988 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 | Mar 17 | Dec 2 |
| 1987 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 1986 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | none |
| 1985 | Mar 19 | no data | Feb 15 | no data |
| 1984 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 1983 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Dec 25 |
| 1982 | Mar 9 | Nov 6 | Jan 27 | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 22 |
| 1980 | Mar 5 | Nov 20 | Mar 4 | Nov 29 |
| 1979 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 1978 | Mar 6 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
"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.