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Frost history / Salisbury 9 Wnw, NC

Salisbury 9 Wnw, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00317618, 1983 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 725 ft, 35.697, -80.623. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 28
EarliestMar 20 (1991)Oct 8 (1988)
LatestMay 8 (1989)Nov 17 (2024)
Trend0.9 days earlier per decade2.7 days later per decade
Years with data4243

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 29 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1519902000201020201983: Apr 221984: Apr 111985: Apr 101986: May 41987: Apr 41988: Apr 201989: May 81990: Apr 191991: Mar 201992: Apr 71993: Apr 281994: Apr 81995: Mar 251996: Apr 101997: Apr 181998: Apr 61999: Mar 282000: Apr 52002: Apr 82003: Mar 312004: Apr 72005: Apr 182006: Apr 112007: Apr 112008: Apr 302009: Apr 92010: Mar 272011: Apr 72012: Apr 132013: Apr 62014: Apr 172015: Apr 62016: Apr 112017: Mar 242018: Apr 202019: Apr 42020: Apr 162021: Apr 232022: Apr 202023: Apr 102024: Apr 82025: Apr 14

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2619902000201020201983: Oct 281984: Nov 71985: Nov 91986: Oct 201987: Oct 91988: Oct 81989: Nov 41990: Oct 281991: Oct 81992: Oct 191993: Oct 241994: Oct 281995: Nov 51996: Nov 31997: Oct 231998: Oct 231999: Oct 252000: Oct 92001: Oct 82002: Nov 22003: Nov 102004: Nov 62005: Oct 272006: Oct 142007: Oct 302008: Oct 202009: Oct 192010: Nov 72011: Oct 302012: Nov 22013: Oct 242014: Nov 32015: Oct 192016: Nov 82017: Nov 102018: Oct 222019: Nov 22020: Nov 22021: Nov 52022: Oct 192023: Nov 22024: Nov 172025: Nov 11

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
2025Apr 14Nov 11Mar 7Nov 11
2024Apr 8Nov 17Mar 19Nov 29
2023Apr 10Nov 2Mar 21Nov 2
2022Apr 20Oct 19Mar 29Nov 14
2021Apr 23Nov 5Apr 3Nov 6
2020Apr 16Nov 2Mar 8Nov 19
2019Apr 4Nov 2Mar 29Nov 9
2018Apr 20Oct 22Mar 24Nov 11
2017Mar 24Nov 10Mar 24Nov 10
2016Apr 11Nov 8Apr 11Nov 13
2015Apr 6Oct 19Apr 6Nov 15
2014Apr 17Nov 3Mar 28Nov 3
2013Apr 6Oct 24Mar 29Oct 26
2012Apr 13Nov 2Mar 12Nov 7
2011Apr 7Oct 30Mar 30Oct 30
2010Mar 27Nov 7Mar 8Nov 7
2009Apr 9Oct 19Mar 22Nov 28
2008Apr 30Oct 20Apr 17Oct 30
2007Apr 11Oct 30Apr 10Oct 30
2006Apr 11Oct 14Mar 27Oct 15
2005Apr 18Oct 27Mar 20Oct 30
2004Apr 7Nov 6Apr 5Nov 10
2003Mar 31Nov 10Mar 9Nov 25
2002Apr 8Nov 2Apr 8Nov 19
2001no dataOct 8no dataOct 28
2000Apr 5Oct 9Mar 14Nov 1
1999Mar 28Oct 25Mar 28Nov 4
1998Apr 6Oct 23Mar 23Oct 23
1997Apr 18Oct 23Apr 10Nov 5
1996Apr 10Nov 3Apr 10Nov 4
1995Mar 25Nov 5Mar 11Nov 5
1994Apr 8Oct 28Apr 8Nov 13
1993Apr 28Oct 24Mar 20Nov 2
1992Apr 7Oct 19Apr 6Oct 20
1991Mar 20Oct 8Mar 12Oct 11
1990Apr 19Oct 28Apr 8Nov 18
1989May 8Nov 4Apr 13Nov 17
1988Apr 20Oct 8Mar 18Oct 13
1987Apr 4Oct 9Apr 1Oct 22
1986May 4Oct 20Apr 24Nov 14
1985Apr 10Nov 9Apr 10Dec 3
1984Apr 11Nov 7Mar 12Nov 7
1983Apr 22Oct 28Apr 21Nov 5

"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.