Last Frost Day

Frost history / Greensboro 2 Wnw, AL

Greensboro 2 Wnw, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00063893, 2007 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 280 ft, 32.717, -87.623. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 15Nov 14
EarliestFeb 13 (2011)Oct 19 (2022)
LatestApr 16 (2014)Nov 30 (2020)
Trend7.5 days later per decade0.8 days later per decade
Years with data1618

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 23.

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)

Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202008: Mar 252009: Mar 42010: Mar 72011: Feb 132012: Feb 202013: Mar 282014: Apr 162015: Mar 82016: Feb 272017: Mar 162018: Mar 222020: Feb 282021: Apr 22022: Mar 142023: Mar 212024: Mar 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202007: Nov 72008: Oct 292009: Nov 272010: Nov 62011: Nov 112012: Nov 242013: Nov 132014: Nov 12015: Nov 222016: Nov 202017: Nov 202018: Nov 152019: Nov 12020: Nov 302021: Nov 142022: Oct 192023: Nov 12024: Nov 29

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2024Mar 19Nov 29Feb 19Nov 30
2023Mar 21Nov 1Mar 20Nov 29
2022Mar 14Oct 19Mar 13Nov 17
2021Apr 2Nov 14Feb 20none
2020Feb 28Nov 30Feb 28Nov 30
2019no dataNov 1no dataNov 12
2018Mar 22Nov 15Mar 15Nov 15
2017Mar 16Nov 20Jan 28Dec 10
2016Feb 27Nov 20Feb 14Nov 21
2015Mar 8Nov 22Mar 8Nov 23
2014Apr 16Nov 1Mar 26Nov 2
2013Mar 28Nov 13Mar 27Nov 13
2012Feb 20Nov 24Feb 13Nov 25
2011Feb 13Nov 11Feb 13Dec 1
2010Mar 7Nov 6Mar 6Nov 27
2009Mar 4Nov 27Mar 3Dec 5
2008Mar 25Oct 29Mar 9Nov 19
2007no dataNov 7no dataNov 8

"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.