Frost history / Atlantic Beach Wtp, NC

Atlantic Beach Wtp, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00310356, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4 ft, 34.700, -76.738. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 5	Dec 8
Earliest	Jan 22 (2024)	Nov 13 (2019)
Latest	Mar 30 (2015)	Dec 26 (2020)
Trend	6.7 days earlier per decade	1.6 days earlier per decade
Years with data	19	20, 4 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 16 and the median first fall date is Dec 13.

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
2025	Feb 22	Dec 9	Feb 21	Dec 15
2024	Jan 22	Dec 4	Jan 22	Dec 4
2023	Mar 16	Nov 29	Feb 4	none
2022	Mar 14	Dec 19	Mar 14	Dec 24
2021	Feb 22	none	Jan 29	none
2020	Mar 1	Dec 26	Feb 22	Dec 26
2019	Mar 6	Nov 13	Jan 22	none
2018	Mar 13	Nov 28	Feb 4	Nov 29
2017	Mar 18	Dec 13	Mar 16	Dec 13
2016	Feb 27	Dec 10	Feb 16	Dec 16
2015	Mar 30	none	Mar 8	none
2014	no data	Nov 19	no data	none
2013	Mar 24	no data	Feb 18	no data
2012	Feb 14	none	Feb 13	none
2011	Feb 11	none	Jan 23	none
2010	Mar 5	Dec 6	Feb 14	Dec 7
2009	Mar 5	Dec 20	Mar 4	none
2008	Mar 5	Nov 19	Mar 5	Nov 22
2007	no data	Dec 18	no data	none
2006	Mar 30	Dec 8	Mar 30	Dec 8
2005	Mar 3	no data	Jan 29	no data
2004	no data	Dec 15	no data	Dec 20

"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.