Frost history / Lexington, GA
Lexington, GA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00095165, 2004 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 726 ft, 33.871, -83.114. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 23 | Nov 13 |
| Earliest | Mar 4 (2016) | Oct 24 (2006) |
| Latest | Apr 17 (2014) | Nov 29 (2009) |
| Trend | 7.0 days earlier per decade | 5.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 | Mar 10 | Nov 27 |
| 2017 | Mar 18 | Nov 20 | Mar 17 | Dec 10 |
| 2016 | Mar 4 | Nov 20 | Feb 15 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Nov 3 | Mar 27 | Nov 15 |
| 2013 | Mar 29 | no data | Mar 29 | no data |
| 2012 | Mar 7 | Nov 25 | Feb 14 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Mar 8 | Oct 30 | Feb 13 | Nov 18 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Nov 6 | Mar 8 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Nov 29 | Mar 6 | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | Mar 26 | Oct 28 | Mar 26 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 9 | Nov 7 | Apr 8 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 | Feb 28 | Dec 5 |
| 2005 | Mar 19 | Nov 17 | Mar 3 | Nov 18 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Dec 14 |
"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.