The Weather Network predicts a "normal" spring for southwestern Ontario.
It released its spring outlook Tuesday morning, and meteorologist Brad Rousseau says we can expect the season to start with near normal temperatures and normal precipitation.
When asked if the region should expect March to exit like a lamb, he first answered "correct" and then hedged his answer.
"Yes and no," Rousseau says. "March is always notoriously dangerous to say whether we get out scot free or not."
But it is not out of the question we will get a few more days with flurries and freezing temperatures before the month is done. The average snowfall for March is 10 cm or 4 inches.
"As we trend into April and May we'll start to see the temperatures slowly climb, and we expect spring, overall, to end up above normal," predicts Rousseau.
Part of the problem faced by meteorologists like Rousseau is that it is hard to predict weather patterns three and four months in advance, the way forecasters do in seasonal outlooks.
"Particularly the transition seasons, being fall and spring. I mean we're just so susceptible to these dramatic swings in temperature and precip types that it makes it a little more difficult," he says.
