Winter temperatures rarely remain below freezing throughout the day. There are typically two freezing rainstorms each winter and two or three small snowstorms.
Rainfall is usually abundant and spread evenly through the year.
Droughts occur but are usually short-lived. Destructive winds occur occasionally, but tornadoes are infrequent. In the southern two-thirds of Greenville and Spartanburg counties, the last frost is in late March and the first frost is early November, providing an average growing season of 225 days. In a normal year some flowering shrubs bloom through the winter. In the higher elevations, the growing season begins about one month later and ends about one month earlier.