Frost history / Georgetown Co Ap, SC
Georgetown Co Ap, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00383470, 2007 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 30 ft, 33.317, -79.323. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 8 | Nov 19 |
| Earliest | Feb 13 (2011) | Nov 1 (2012) |
| Latest | Mar 31 (2013) | Dec 17 (2009) |
| Trend | 13.5 days later per decade | 5.6 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 11 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 28 and the median first fall date is Dec 18.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | none |
| 2018 | Mar 16 | Nov 28 | Mar 16 | none |
| 2017 | Mar 18 | Nov 21 | Mar 18 | Dec 29 |
| 2016 | Feb 15 | Nov 21 | Feb 15 | Dec 31 |
| 2015 | Mar 8 | Nov 25 | Mar 8 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 28 | Nov 15 | Jan 30 | Nov 19 |
| 2013 | Mar 31 | Nov 13 | Mar 26 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Feb 14 | Nov 1 | Feb 14 | Dec 31 |
| 2011 | Feb 13 | Nov 12 | Jan 24 | none |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Dec 3 | Feb 27 | Dec 6 |
| 2009 | Mar 6 | Dec 17 | Mar 6 | none |
| 2008 | Mar 1 | no data | Feb 28 | no data |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Dec 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.