Frost history / Mcclellanville, SC
Mcclellanville, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00385628, 1958 to 2002, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 12 ft, 33.067, -79.467. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 23 | Nov 13 |
| Earliest | Mar 8 (1959) | Oct 14 (1980) |
| Latest | Apr 24 (1986) | Dec 18 (1998) |
| Trend | 0.7 days earlier per decade | 3.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 30 | 30 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 15 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Mar 23 | Nov 23 | Mar 23 | Nov 29 |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Nov 17 | Mar 5 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 14 | Dec 18 | Mar 14 | Dec 18 |
| 1997 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 | Feb 12 | Dec 6 |
| 1996 | Apr 11 | Nov 10 | Mar 23 | Nov 29 |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 9 | Feb 9 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | none |
| 1993 | Mar 19 | no data | Mar 16 | no data |
| 1992 | Apr 6 | Nov 17 | Mar 17 | Dec 3 |
| 1991 | Mar 12 | Nov 25 | Feb 27 | Nov 25 |
| 1990 | Mar 22 | Nov 19 | Mar 21 | Nov 19 |
| 1989 | Apr 13 | no data | Feb 26 | no data |
| 1988 | Mar 18 | Nov 25 | Mar 17 | Dec 3 |
| 1987 | Apr 1 | Nov 7 | Mar 12 | Nov 12 |
| 1986 | Apr 24 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 1985 | Apr 3 | Dec 7 | Mar 20 | Dec 15 |
| 1984 | Mar 22 | Nov 7 | Mar 10 | Nov 13 |
| 1983 | Apr 22 | Oct 28 | Apr 20 | Nov 18 |
| 1982 | Apr 24 | Nov 6 | Mar 9 | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | Mar 21 | Oct 20 | Mar 21 | Nov 14 |
| 1980 | no data | Oct 14 | no data | Nov 12 |
| 1978 | no data | Dec 11 | no data | Dec 11 |
| 1976 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 1973 | Mar 24 | no data | Feb 18 | no data |
| 1972 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 1967 | Mar 19 | Nov 7 | Mar 19 | Nov 8 |
| 1966 | Apr 11 | Nov 4 | Mar 9 | Nov 4 |
| 1965 | Mar 22 | Nov 18 | Mar 22 | Dec 1 |
| 1964 | Apr 1 | Dec 1 | Mar 31 | Dec 1 |
| 1963 | Mar 24 | Nov 2 | Mar 23 | Nov 15 |
| 1962 | Apr 17 | Oct 26 | Mar 8 | Dec 10 |
| 1961 | Mar 11 | Nov 10 | Feb 11 | Nov 30 |
| 1960 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 | Mar 23 | Dec 1 |
| 1959 | Mar 8 | Nov 19 | Feb 22 | Nov 30 |
| 1958 | Mar 23 | no data | Feb 23 | 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.