Beekeeping is definitely local. If you go to Weather Underground and look at monthly calendars for your location, it will give you some idea of what to TRY and plan for. For Piedmont NC, we seldom have AVERAGE high temperatures lower than 48F and a large number of days average 50F, even during winter. We get many days below this and periods of hard freezes. Flying bees and no real forage means we have to actively monitor to prevent starvation--brood increasing after solstice and no major flow until around mid April most years. I look for brood rearing to be on the increase, and I welcome it. If I try and stimulate brood rearing, I need to keep it up. If hives are following a normal cycle on their own here, February 1st marks the usual time for blooming of the red maple. This is our first large natural pollen supply of the year and we usually see a ramping up of brood rearing (and starvation danger) then.
Mikey NC, I'm not sure about the significant plant life/trees in your forage areas, but I don't think your bee seasons would GENERALLY be more than a week or so ahead of mine at most.