Frost history / Allendale 2 Nw, SC
Allendale 2 Nw, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00380126, 1981 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 180 ft, 33.017, -81.317. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 21 | Nov 7 |
| Earliest | Feb 20 (1997) | Oct 8 (1991) |
| Latest | Apr 20 (2001) | Dec 13 (1982) |
| Trend | 0.8 days later per decade | 3.2 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 33 | 30 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 17.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 | Mar 27 | Nov 15 |
| 2013 | Mar 29 | Nov 13 | Mar 29 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Mar 7 | Nov 9 | Feb 14 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Mar 13 | Oct 30 | Mar 12 | Nov 12 |
| 2010 | Mar 9 | Nov 6 | Mar 8 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Nov 7 | Mar 6 | Dec 11 |
| 2008 | Apr 17 | Oct 29 | Mar 26 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 | Mar 27 | Nov 5 |
| 2005 | Mar 9 | Oct 30 | Mar 9 | Nov 19 |
| 2004 | Apr 6 | Nov 15 | Mar 23 | Nov 16 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | no data | Feb 12 | no data |
| 2001 | Apr 20 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | no data | Feb 23 | no data |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Oct 26 | Mar 13 | Nov 17 |
| 1998 | Mar 14 | Oct 24 | Mar 14 | Dec 18 |
| 1997 | Feb 20 | Nov 17 | Feb 18 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | Apr 11 | Nov 4 | Mar 23 | Nov 13 |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 9 | Feb 23 | Nov 17 |
| 1994 | Mar 18 | Nov 24 | Mar 12 | Nov 24 |
| 1993 | Mar 19 | Nov 1 | Mar 15 | Dec 12 |
| 1992 | Apr 3 | Nov 16 | Feb 2 | Dec 3 |
| 1991 | Mar 11 | Oct 8 | Feb 17 | Dec 17 |
| 1990 | Mar 21 | Nov 30 | Feb 26 | none |
| 1989 | Mar 9 | Oct 21 | Feb 25 | Dec 4 |
| 1988 | Mar 18 | Oct 14 | Mar 17 | Dec 3 |
| 1987 | Apr 1 | Oct 23 | Feb 11 | Oct 30 |
| 1986 | Mar 22 | Nov 14 | Mar 22 | Nov 14 |
| 1985 | Mar 20 | Dec 3 | Feb 17 | Dec 4 |
| 1984 | Mar 10 | Nov 8 | Feb 10 | Nov 13 |
| 1983 | Apr 20 | Nov 13 | Feb 9 | Nov 14 |
| 1982 | Apr 7 | Dec 13 | Jan 28 | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | Mar 21 | Nov 14 | Feb 14 | Dec 6 |
"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.