Frost history / W Pelzer, SC
W Pelzer, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00389122, 1965 to 2000, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 705 ft, 34.643, -82.455. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 4 | Oct 29 |
| Earliest | Mar 11 (1991) | Sep 30 (1967) |
| Latest | May 8 (1989) | Nov 24 (1994) |
| Trend | 1.6 days earlier per decade | 1.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 32 | 36 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 13.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | Mar 27 | Oct 23 | Mar 16 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Dec 17 |
| 1997 | Mar 18 | Nov 16 | Feb 17 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 12 | Nov 3 | Mar 24 | Nov 12 |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 5 | Mar 10 | Nov 9 |
| 1994 | Apr 1 | Nov 24 | Mar 17 | Nov 24 |
| 1993 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Apr 6 | Oct 20 | Apr 3 | Nov 15 |
| 1991 | Mar 11 | Nov 4 | Mar 11 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Apr 12 | Oct 27 | Mar 21 | Nov 19 |
| 1989 | May 8 | Oct 21 | Mar 8 | Nov 17 |
| 1988 | no data | Oct 14 | no data | Nov 29 |
| 1987 | Apr 6 | Oct 8 | Apr 1 | Oct 22 |
| 1986 | Apr 24 | Nov 14 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 |
| 1985 | Apr 10 | Nov 9 | Mar 19 | Dec 3 |
| 1984 | Mar 31 | Nov 7 | Mar 31 | Nov 7 |
| 1983 | Apr 21 | Nov 6 | Apr 21 | Nov 12 |
| 1982 | Apr 24 | Nov 5 | Apr 7 | Nov 5 |
| 1981 | Mar 25 | Oct 20 | Mar 21 | Nov 14 |
| 1980 | Mar 22 | Nov 6 | Mar 22 | Nov 19 |
| 1979 | Mar 26 | Oct 14 | Mar 26 | Nov 15 |
| 1978 | Apr 22 | Oct 15 | Apr 22 | Dec 6 |
| 1977 | Mar 24 | Oct 18 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 |
| 1976 | Mar 23 | Oct 22 | Feb 24 | Oct 29 |
| 1975 | Apr 13 | Nov 1 | Mar 15 | Nov 15 |
| 1974 | Apr 7 | Oct 3 | Mar 22 | Oct 22 |
| 1973 | Apr 12 | Nov 10 | Apr 11 | Nov 10 |
| 1972 | Apr 10 | Oct 20 | Apr 9 | Nov 24 |
| 1971 | May 4 | Nov 5 | Mar 31 | Nov 8 |
| 1970 | Apr 3 | Nov 16 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Mar 28 | Nov 4 | Mar 28 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Mar 26 | Oct 26 | Mar 25 | Oct 29 |
| 1967 | Mar 23 | Sep 30 | Mar 19 | Nov 5 |
| 1966 | Apr 7 | Nov 3 | Mar 29 | Nov 4 |
| 1965 | no data | Oct 25 | no data | Oct 25 |
"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.