Frost history / Edisto Is Middleton Plantation, SC
Edisto Is Middleton Plantation, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00382735, 2006 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 12 ft, 32.607, -80.326. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 5 | Dec 2 |
| Earliest | Jan 24 (2011) | Nov 13 (2013) |
| Latest | Apr 8 (2007) | Dec 30 (2012) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 9.9 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 15 | 13, 3 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 15 and the median first fall date is Nov 29.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Mar 1 | no data | Feb 22 | no data |
| 2019 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 | none | none |
| 2018 | Mar 15 | Nov 28 | Jan 19 | none |
| 2017 | Mar 17 | Dec 10 | Mar 16 | none |
| 2016 | Feb 14 | Dec 10 | Jan 20 | none |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | none | Feb 20 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 14 | Nov 18 | Jan 30 | Nov 18 |
| 2013 | Mar 4 | Nov 13 | Feb 18 | none |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Dec 30 | Feb 13 | none |
| 2011 | Jan 24 | none | Jan 23 | none |
| 2010 | Mar 7 | Dec 6 | Feb 17 | Dec 6 |
| 2009 | Mar 5 | none | Mar 4 | none |
| 2008 | Feb 28 | Nov 19 | Jan 21 | Nov 22 |
| 2007 | Apr 8 | Dec 17 | Feb 19 | Dec 18 |
| 2006 | Feb 27 | no data | Feb 10 | no data |
"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.