Without fanfare and in pretty typical fashion for the Buffalo-Niagara region, spring will arrive Friday after a long, harsh and cold winter season.
"Our temperatures will actually be a little above normal with highs in the upper 40's," National Weather Service meteorologist John Rozbicki tells WBEN. "That's about 5 degrees above normal of what's typical at this point in March."
Rain will develop across the region through the day Friday, bringing about a quarter to half inch of rainfall.
As springtime takes hold, 'changeable' is a good word to describe what's in the forecast.
"We'll continue with highs in the mid to upper 40's through the weekend," Rozbicki notes. "We'll get colder for a couple of days next week, then we'll kind of go back up, temperature-wise, for a couple of days, and colder then for the end of next week and next weekend."
For those in search of a longer term warmup that will make it really feel like spring in WNY, there is some hope.
"There's some very early signs that toward the end of the month, beginning of April, we may get into a milder pattern, but that's still a couple of weeks out."