Waterville 2, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00319123, 1951 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,430 ft, 35.774, -83.100. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 10	Oct 26
Earliest	Mar 8 (1952)	Oct 3 (1974)
Latest	May 8 (1989)	Dec 1 (1978)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	65	63

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 9.

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.

Chart

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
2016	Apr 10	no data	Mar 3	no data
2015	Mar 29	Oct 19	Mar 29	Nov 14
2014	Apr 16	Nov 2	Mar 27	Nov 3
2013	Apr 3	Oct 25	Mar 29	Oct 26
2012	Apr 12	Nov 9	Mar 6	Nov 24
2011	Apr 6	Oct 30	Feb 13	Nov 18
2010	Mar 8	Nov 6	Mar 7	Nov 7
2009	Apr 7	Oct 19	Mar 5	Dec 5
2008	Apr 16	Oct 30	Mar 25	Nov 17
2007	Apr 10	Nov 4	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Mar 27	Oct 14	Mar 27	Oct 25
2005	Mar 19	Oct 29	Mar 15	Nov 17
2004	Apr 6	Nov 9	Mar 23	Nov 26
2003	Apr 1	Nov 14	Feb 13	Nov 14
2002	Apr 6	Nov 2	Mar 23	Nov 18
2001	Apr 19	Oct 18	Mar 28	Oct 28
2000	Apr 10	Oct 9	Mar 13	Nov 20
1999	Mar 28	Oct 25	Mar 16	Nov 4
1998	Apr 6	Oct 23	Mar 15	Nov 7
1997	Apr 15	Oct 23	Apr 10	Nov 16
1996	Apr 11	Oct 20	Apr 11	Nov 3
1995	Apr 25	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Oct 27	Mar 12	Nov 24
1993	Apr 23	Oct 31	Mar 15	Nov 2
1992	Apr 7	Oct 20	Apr 3	Nov 14
1991	Mar 31	Oct 7	Mar 11	Nov 4
1990	Apr 18	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 30
1989	May 8	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 17
1988	Apr 20	Oct 13	Mar 17	Nov 29
1987	Apr 9	Oct 4	Apr 4	Oct 22
1986	Apr 24	Nov 13	Mar 23	Nov 13
1985	no data	Nov 8	no data	Dec 2
1984	Apr 2	Nov 6	Mar 12	Nov 13
1983	Apr 21	Nov 5	Apr 21	Nov 14
1982	Apr 23	Nov 4	Apr 7	Nov 5
1981	Mar 25	Oct 24	Mar 21	Nov 22
1980	Mar 18	Nov 12	Mar 15	Nov 12
1979	Mar 27	Oct 14	Mar 26	Nov 15
1978	Apr 22	Dec 1	Mar 19	Dec 9
1977	Apr 9	Oct 15	Mar 23	Nov 12
1976	Apr 28	Oct 18	Mar 18	Oct 28
1975	Apr 13	Nov 13	Apr 7	Nov 15
1974	Apr 25	Oct 3	Mar 14	Oct 21
1973	Apr 14	Oct 18	Mar 22	Nov 10
1972	Apr 26	Oct 19	Apr 9	Nov 16
1971	May 4	Nov 4	Apr 3	Nov 7
1970	Apr 8	no data	Mar 18	no data
1969	Apr 2	Oct 18	Mar 31	Nov 14
1968	Mar 26	Oct 26	Mar 25	Oct 30
1967	Apr 28	Oct 26	Mar 20	Nov 6
1966	Apr 11	Oct 11	Apr 10	Oct 11
1965	Apr 30	Oct 25	Apr 30	Oct 29
1964	Apr 10	Oct 11	Apr 1	Nov 21
1963	May 2	Oct 31	Mar 23	Nov 3
1962	Apr 21	Oct 24	Apr 17	Oct 26
1961	Apr 19	Oct 26	Mar 17	Oct 28
1960	Apr 11	Oct 25	Apr 11	Nov 8
1959	Mar 23	Nov 7	Mar 19	Nov 7
1958	Apr 13	Oct 29	Mar 17	Nov 29
1957	Apr 15	Oct 20	Apr 15	Oct 28
1956	Apr 22	Nov 9	Apr 22	Nov 9
1955	Apr 8	Oct 25	Mar 30	Nov 4
1954	Mar 22	no data	Mar 17	no data
1953	Mar 9	Nov 6	Feb 18	Nov 7
1952	Mar 8	Oct 21	Jan 31	Oct 30
1951	Mar 25	Nov 3	Feb 9	Nov 9

"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.