COLUMBIA, S.C. — Halloween is the first of many holidays that end out the year, but it is often the warmest. Fall temperatures can vary greatly this time of the year and we can see that in some of our past records. Data from our partners at Climate Central shows our coldest Halloween night at 31 degrees back in 2008 with the warmest 88 degree day happening in 1950
After the holiday we are going to see some potentially record breaking cold to start off November. Morning lows on Friday are expected to drop to the lowest we have seen this season with a hard freeze likely as temperatures drop below freezing.
This first freeze is happening just a few days ahead of our typical first freeze which lands on November 6th.
With our changing climate, this date has changed since the 60s coming on average about a week later.
Lows on both Thursday and Friday will likely reach freezing which marks the first time we’ve been that cold in 226 days or back in March.