Frost history / Cataloochee, NC
Cataloochee, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00311564, 1965 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,650 ft, 35.638, -83.096. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 8 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Apr 20 (1990) | Sep 20 (1981) |
| Latest | Jun 2 (1966) | Oct 18 (1969) |
| Trend | 0.9 days earlier per decade | 1.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 24 | 21 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2009 | May 21 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 2 | no data | Oct 19 |
| 1992 | May 9 | Sep 30 | Apr 7 | Oct 20 |
| 1991 | Apr 25 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 1990 | Apr 20 | Sep 25 | Apr 14 | Oct 27 |
| 1989 | May 14 | Oct 5 | May 8 | Oct 21 |
| 1988 | May 26 | Oct 6 | Apr 21 | Oct 8 |
| 1987 | Apr 30 | Oct 2 | Apr 11 | Oct 4 |
| 1986 | May 22 | Oct 17 | May 4 | Oct 17 |
| 1985 | May 4 | Sep 28 | Apr 10 | Oct 7 |
| 1984 | May 31 | no data | May 17 | no data |
| 1982 | May 3 | no data | Apr 24 | no data |
| 1981 | May 3 | Sep 20 | Apr 7 | Oct 3 |
| 1979 | May 3 | Oct 6 | Apr 29 | Oct 14 |
| 1978 | May 12 | Oct 8 | Apr 22 | Oct 9 |
| 1977 | May 13 | Oct 4 | May 11 | Oct 15 |
| 1976 | May 21 | no data | Apr 28 | no data |
| 1975 | Apr 23 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 1974 | May 8 | Sep 30 | Apr 26 | Oct 3 |
| 1973 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 18 |
| 1971 | May 5 | no data | May 4 | no data |
| 1970 | May 7 | Oct 5 | Apr 8 | Oct 17 |
| 1969 | May 13 | Oct 18 | Apr 25 | Oct 18 |
| 1968 | May 22 | Oct 5 | Apr 16 | Oct 5 |
| 1967 | May 8 | Sep 30 | Apr 29 | Sep 30 |
| 1966 | Jun 2 | Oct 2 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 |
| 1965 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 25 |
"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.