WEATHER OBSERVATIONS IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG AREA

    The climate data listed on this server is a compilation
   of weather records from various locations across the 
   Greenville-Spartanburg metro area since the early 1900's.

    Although official weather records for this area date back
   to 1893, our current dataset begins with records starting
   in 1918 at the US Weather Bureau office at the Greenville
   County Courthouse.  During the 1920's and 1930's official
   weather observations were taken at no less than four different
   locations around Greenville before finally moving to the 
   Municipal Airport downtown in 1941.  Observations were taken
   at the Airport downtown until 1962 when Weather Bureau moved
   to the new Greenville-Spartanburg Jetport in Greer.

    In Spartanburg, our dataset begins when weather observations 
   began in 1930 at the Spartanburg Airport.  As was the case
   in Greenville, observations were taken at the Airport downtown 
   until 1962 when Weather Bureau moved to the new Greenville-
   Spartanburg Jetport in Greer.         

    The current climatology program here at the NWS in Greenville-
   Spartanburg has combined all the records and normals for each
   of these locations across both Greenville and Sparatanburg
   for a new "metro" area dataset.  The official weather observation
   site is currently the GSP international airport, but we do note
   in certain categories whether the records were originally set at 
   Greenville (GMU), Spartanburg (SPA), or GSP.