Van_Denton's Blog

Temperatures are now warming into the 70s and many are thinking about spring and gardens.  Might as well since we are done with the cold right?   Think again, we are not done with the cold and that is perfectly normal.   We expect cold weather again the week of April 14th.   We are 6 days out (writing this on April 9th), but it looks like we could be close to freezing around sunrise on Tuesday morning, April 15.

Records date back to 1928 for the Triad area and after comparing all 80 years we have found that the average last freeze is on April 11th.  The majority of the years fall within 2 weeks of that date.  Some years the last is early and some it is much later.

The latest freeze on record for us was May 8, 1989.   I point this out not to scare anyone away from planting, just to make you aware of what can happen in April and sometimes even early May.

Below is a map with the average latest freeze for the state of North Carolina.