Frost history / Southport 5 N, NC
Southport 5 N, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00318113, 1951 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 20 ft, 33.995, -78.008. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 24 | Nov 10 |
| Earliest | Feb 11 (1951) | Oct 16 (1981) |
| Latest | Apr 17 (1962) | Dec 1 (1965) |
| Trend | 3.1 days later per decade | 0.8 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 45 | 43 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 25.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | Nov 25 |
| 2013 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Dec 19 |
| 2009 | no data | Nov 28 | no data | Dec 21 |
| 2008 | Mar 21 | Oct 29 | Feb 28 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 | Apr 8 | Nov 17 |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Oct 25 | Feb 27 | Dec 5 |
| 2004 | Apr 6 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Nov 30 | Feb 14 | Nov 30 |
| 2002 | Mar 23 | Nov 23 | Mar 23 | Dec 2 |
| 2000 | Feb 22 | no data | Feb 7 | no data |
| 1999 | Mar 29 | Nov 4 | Mar 13 | Nov 17 |
| 1998 | Mar 14 | Nov 8 | Mar 14 | Dec 17 |
| 1997 | Apr 2 | Nov 17 | Feb 12 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | Apr 12 | Nov 10 | Apr 10 | Nov 10 |
| 1995 | Apr 4 | Nov 9 | Mar 11 | Nov 9 |
| 1994 | Mar 22 | Nov 24 | Mar 13 | Nov 24 |
| 1992 | Apr 7 | no data | Apr 2 | no data |
| 1990 | Apr 9 | Nov 14 | Mar 21 | Nov 19 |
| 1989 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 1987 | Apr 7 | no data | Mar 18 | no data |
| 1981 | Mar 25 | Oct 16 | Mar 25 | Oct 21 |
| 1980 | Mar 19 | Oct 27 | Mar 15 | Nov 12 |
| 1979 | Mar 18 | no data | Mar 17 | no data |
| 1978 | Mar 18 | Nov 26 | Mar 6 | Nov 26 |
| 1977 | Mar 24 | Oct 18 | Mar 9 | Nov 14 |
| 1976 | Apr 13 | Oct 29 | Feb 10 | Oct 29 |
| 1975 | Mar 10 | Nov 15 | Mar 9 | Dec 3 |
| 1974 | no data | Oct 22 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 1973 | Apr 14 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 1972 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1971 | Apr 4 | Nov 8 | Mar 26 | Nov 22 |
| 1969 | Mar 28 | Nov 15 | Mar 13 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 14 | no data |
| 1967 | Mar 19 | Nov 7 | Mar 19 | Nov 8 |
| 1966 | Mar 29 | Nov 4 | Mar 8 | Dec 4 |
| 1965 | Mar 22 | Dec 1 | Mar 21 | Dec 1 |
| 1964 | Mar 31 | Dec 1 | Mar 31 | Dec 1 |
| 1963 | Mar 23 | Nov 15 | Feb 28 | Dec 15 |
| 1962 | Apr 17 | Oct 25 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 |
| 1961 | Feb 11 | Nov 9 | Feb 6 | Nov 29 |
| 1960 | Mar 23 | Nov 8 | Mar 22 | Dec 2 |
| 1959 | Feb 21 | Nov 19 | Feb 21 | Nov 30 |
| 1958 | Mar 16 | Dec 1 | Feb 20 | Dec 1 |
| 1957 | Mar 10 | Dec 1 | Jan 19 | Dec 12 |
| 1956 | Mar 25 | Nov 23 | Mar 21 | Nov 23 |
| 1955 | Mar 30 | Nov 5 | Mar 27 | Nov 29 |
| 1954 | Mar 22 | Nov 3 | Mar 7 | Dec 6 |
| 1953 | Feb 19 | Nov 29 | none | Dec 17 |
| 1952 | Mar 16 | Dec 1 | Feb 1 | Dec 16 |
| 1951 | Feb 11 | Nov 9 | Feb 8 | Nov 18 |
"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.