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Frost history / Lake Toxaway 2 Sw, NC

Lake Toxaway 2 Sw, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314788, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,200 ft, 35.097, -82.951. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 19Oct 23
EarliestMar 21 (2023)Oct 3 (2003)
LatestMay 19 (2002)Nov 22 (2024)
Trend7.9 days earlier per decade8.0 days later per decade
Years with data2828

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020201997: May 51998: Apr 141999: Apr 202000: Apr 112001: Apr 202002: May 192003: Apr 242004: May 42005: Apr 272006: Apr 112007: Apr 202008: May 12009: Apr 182010: Apr 202011: May 62012: Apr 142014: Apr 172015: Apr 52016: Apr 112017: Apr 92018: Apr 212019: Apr 42020: Apr 162021: Apr 232022: Apr 302023: Mar 212024: Apr 62025: Mar 22

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020201996: Oct 111997: Oct 231998: Oct 231999: Oct 212000: Oct 92001: Oct 72002: Oct 182003: Oct 32005: Oct 232006: Oct 152007: Oct 302008: Oct 192009: Oct 192010: Oct 302011: Oct 32013: Oct 242014: Nov 22015: Oct 182016: Oct 232017: Oct 302018: Oct 302019: Nov 12020: Nov 22021: Oct 282022: Oct 182023: Nov 12024: Nov 222025: Nov 10

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Mar 22Nov 10Mar 22Nov 10
2024Apr 6Nov 22Mar 20Nov 30
2023Mar 21Nov 1Mar 20Nov 1
2022Apr 30Oct 18Mar 15Oct 20
2021Apr 23Oct 28Apr 22Nov 23
2020Apr 16Nov 2Mar 8Dec 1
2019Apr 4Nov 1Apr 1Nov 9
2018Apr 21Oct 30Apr 18Nov 11
2017Apr 9Oct 30Mar 18Oct 30
2016Apr 11Oct 23Mar 22Nov 20
2015Apr 5Oct 18Apr 5Nov 22
2014Apr 17Nov 2Apr 17Nov 2
2013no dataOct 24no dataNov 13
2012Apr 14no dataApr 13no data
2011May 6Oct 3Mar 26Oct 30
2010Apr 20Oct 30Mar 23Nov 6
2009Apr 18Oct 19Apr 9Oct 19
2008May 1Oct 19Apr 15Oct 29
2007Apr 20Oct 30Apr 11Oct 30
2006Apr 11Oct 15Apr 9Oct 25
2005Apr 27Oct 23Apr 25Oct 27
2004May 4no dataMar 24no data
2003Apr 24Oct 3Apr 1Nov 10
2002May 19Oct 18Apr 7Nov 7
2001Apr 20Oct 7Apr 19Oct 19
2000Apr 11Oct 9Apr 10Oct 10
1999Apr 20Oct 21Mar 30Oct 24
1998Apr 14Oct 23Apr 14Oct 23
1997May 5Oct 23Apr 16Oct 23
1996no dataOct 11no dataNov 3

"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.