Last Frost?

Simple question ... So when is the average time of the last frost?

 

late april to early may i thinks

 

Unless we get snow in June. It's happened!

 

Hahahaha yes that would not surprise me ... Fingers crossed it stays away!

 

Depends a lot on your area Kayleigh , but your 90% safe after the 1st of May.

 

Ok thank you HarryS I'm in Whittlesey

 

general guide http://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/adjust-dates-uk.php pretty accurate for my area

 

For the three very separate patches of ground I'm familiar with, that looks about as bang on as can be.

 

In our area I have no record (in recent years only mind) of any frost after the first week in May

 

Interesting thread, for my area it says 2nd week of may which is only about week out.

Frosts came early this winter, 2 nights in august.

 

Mine must be same as yours Kaz, 2nd week April.

 

The RED bits on this chart are interesting , for the warmest points in the UK , i.e an early last frost date. Cornwall and Pembrokshire obviously get the gulf stream hitting them. But only Holy Island off the tip of Anglesey is red and yet the Llyn peninsula ( Abersoch ) is not

 

My old Dad used to say, nominally, May 31st for Pembrokeshire, where we lived.
Two weeks earlier for dahn Sarf, two weeks later for oop North.

But he stressed these were just a rule of thumb and a frost could happen anywhere, anytime but it almost never did.

This was back in the 70s/80s, I bet Pembs often doesn't get a frost after April 1st these days and there've been a few winters when they hardly had any.

 

Just had a look at the map, we were in the red zone near St Davids. I'm amazed how much things have changed. As a farmer and grower, my father was obsessed with weather and was constantly measuring and recording it over a period of 40 years so I can't see that his judgements would have been far wrong for his time.

 

Pretty sure we've had a frost here late on in May...