Frost history / Rural Hall, NC
Rural Hall, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00317548, 1954 to 2017, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 960 ft, 36.233, -80.307. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 8 | Nov 3 |
| Earliest | Mar 20 (2005) | Oct 9 (2000) |
| Latest | Apr 25 (2012) | Nov 13 (2016) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 0.7 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 21 | 17 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mar 25 | no data | Mar 17 | no data |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 13 | Apr 10 | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 | Apr 16 | Nov 15 |
| 2013 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 22 | no data |
| 2012 | Apr 25 | Nov 7 | Mar 7 | Nov 25 |
| 2010 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2008 | Apr 17 | Oct 23 | Mar 25 | Oct 30 |
| 2007 | Apr 9 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 2005 | Mar 20 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 2002 | Apr 8 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 2001 | Apr 20 | Oct 18 | Apr 20 | Oct 28 |
| 2000 | Apr 6 | Oct 9 | Mar 15 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | Mar 27 | Oct 25 | Mar 17 | Nov 4 |
| 1961 | Apr 14 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 1960 | Apr 11 | Oct 21 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 |
| 1959 | Mar 29 | Nov 8 | Mar 23 | Nov 18 |
| 1958 | Mar 23 | Nov 8 | Mar 17 | Nov 30 |
| 1957 | Apr 15 | Oct 27 | Mar 29 | Oct 28 |
| 1956 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 1955 | Mar 31 | Nov 5 | Mar 30 | Nov 5 |
| 1954 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 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.