NORTHEAST WISCONSIN (WTAQ)- After a long season of the winter blues, many in Northeast Wisconsin highly anticipate the first day of spring.
The calander may say March 20 as the first day of Spring, but Roy Eckberg of the National Weather Service in Green Bay says the weather does not always corporate with that.
“We can get snowstorms as late as early May, but we also have had a couple of days in March where we hit 80 degrees, like back in 2012.”
Eckberg says the first week of Spring this year will be very close to the average in Northeast Wisconsin, with temperatures being in the 40’s.
“There should be more sunshine coming towards the end of the week to help those winter time blues.”
While there is no true indication that snow is out of the forecast for good, Eckberg says there are things that point to the end of winter.
“The first signs of robins returning to the area to me is one of the first signs of spring.”
Many hope that the first day of Spring is truely the end of winter, but time will tell.
“But we can get accumulating snow as late as May 28, however late May snow is a rare event.”
For now, the National Weather Service is not forecasting any snow for the first official week of Spring.
