Frost history / Charlotte Court House, VA
Charlotte Court House, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00441585, 1959 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 569 ft, 37.052, -78.650. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 14 | Oct 21 |
| Earliest | Mar 19 (2000) | Oct 2 (2003) |
| Latest | May 11 (1966) | Nov 8 (2004) |
| Trend | 3.3 days earlier per decade | 2.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 33 | 34 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Apr 5 | no data | Mar 30 | no data |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | Apr 4 | Oct 26 | Mar 23 | Nov 13 |
| 2004 | Apr 5 | Nov 8 | Mar 23 | Dec 12 |
| 2003 | Apr 2 | Oct 2 | Apr 2 | Nov 9 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 2000 | Mar 19 | Oct 30 | Mar 18 | Nov 16 |
| 1999 | Mar 23 | Oct 25 | Mar 16 | Nov 4 |
| 1998 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 1997 | Apr 11 | Oct 23 | Apr 10 | Nov 5 |
| 1996 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 | Mar 22 | Nov 3 |
| 1995 | Apr 15 | Oct 30 | Mar 11 | Nov 5 |
| 1994 | Apr 23 | Oct 27 | Apr 8 | Nov 12 |
| 1982 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 23 | Oct 17 |
| 1981 | Apr 8 | Oct 3 | Apr 7 | Oct 20 |
| 1980 | Apr 17 | no data | Apr 17 | no data |
| 1979 | Apr 30 | Oct 6 | Apr 29 | Oct 14 |
| 1978 | May 3 | Oct 9 | Mar 19 | Oct 9 |
| 1977 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Oct 18 |
| 1976 | May 9 | no data | Apr 29 | no data |
| 1975 | Apr 14 | Oct 4 | Apr 14 | Oct 31 |
| 1974 | Apr 10 | Oct 3 | Apr 10 | Oct 4 |
| 1973 | Apr 15 | Oct 18 | Apr 14 | Nov 6 |
| 1972 | Apr 10 | Oct 20 | Apr 9 | Oct 20 |
| 1971 | Apr 23 | Nov 5 | Apr 15 | Nov 8 |
| 1970 | May 7 | Oct 17 | Mar 30 | Oct 18 |
| 1969 | Apr 25 | Oct 18 | Apr 1 | Oct 18 |
| 1968 | Apr 12 | Oct 5 | Mar 25 | Oct 31 |
| 1967 | Mar 25 | Oct 20 | Mar 24 | Oct 20 |
| 1966 | May 11 | Oct 21 | Apr 10 | Nov 4 |
| 1965 | Apr 3 | Oct 5 | Apr 3 | Oct 29 |
| 1964 | Apr 10 | Oct 8 | Apr 10 | Oct 11 |
| 1963 | May 2 | Oct 31 | May 2 | Oct 31 |
| 1962 | Apr 19 | Oct 24 | Apr 17 | Oct 25 |
| 1961 | Apr 30 | Oct 27 | Mar 18 | Oct 28 |
| 1960 | Apr 11 | Oct 22 | Apr 11 | Oct 25 |
| 1959 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Nov 3 |
"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.