Frost history / Cape Charles 5 Ene, VA
Cape Charles 5 Ene, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003739, 2004 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 29 ft, 37.291, -75.927. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 22 | Nov 18 |
| Earliest | Mar 1 (2024) | Oct 31 (2011) |
| Latest | Apr 10 (2007) | Dec 6 (2009) |
| Trend | 3.1 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 20 | 21 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mar 1 | Dec 1 | Feb 18 | Dec 3 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 28 | Mar 21 | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 30 | Nov 18 | Mar 13 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | Mar 8 | Nov 14 | Mar 8 | Nov 30 |
| 2020 | Mar 8 | Nov 19 | Mar 8 | Nov 19 |
| 2019 | Apr 1 | Nov 9 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Mar 17 | Nov 11 | Mar 17 | Nov 22 |
| 2017 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 | Mar 15 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 6 | Nov 12 | Apr 6 | Dec 10 |
| 2015 | Mar 29 | Nov 24 | Mar 7 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 27 | Nov 15 | Mar 27 | Nov 16 |
| 2013 | Mar 24 | Nov 13 | Feb 21 | Nov 25 |
| 2012 | Mar 11 | Nov 28 | Feb 21 | Dec 23 |
| 2011 | Mar 29 | Oct 31 | Mar 28 | Dec 18 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Nov 28 | Feb 28 | Dec 8 |
| 2009 | Mar 25 | Dec 6 | Mar 25 | Dec 12 |
| 2008 | Mar 10 | Nov 18 | Feb 28 | Nov 22 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 | Mar 19 | Dec 17 |
| 2006 | Mar 21 | Nov 4 | Mar 8 | Dec 8 |
| 2005 | Mar 15 | Nov 18 | Mar 10 | Nov 25 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Dec 15 |
"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.