Farmers' Almanac 2023 Spring Forecast: What VA Can Expect

VIRGINIA — With the spring equinox just over a month away — spring 2023 arrives on March 20 at 5:24 p.m. EDT — Virginians are wondering when it will truly feel like spring.

The Farmers' Almanac is the latest to issue its outlook, predicting a "soggy, shivery" spring for much of the country. Virginia may experience near normal temps and lots of rain showers, while Maryland is likely to see mild temperatures and near normal precipitation.

Reaching the 2023 spring equinox doesn't mean the season and the weather will be in sync.

"Overall, we see a wet and cool season for most places, with spring taking its sweet time to arrive," the almanac's authors said. "The exceptions will be in the Far West with near-normal temperatures over Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, as well as the Southwest, where you’ll see quickly rising temperatures."

According to the almanac's long-range outlook, temperatures around the start to spring may be unseasonably cold temperatures in many parts of the country, extending the "shiver and shovel" portion of the forecast.

The extended spring forecast expects many places to see a wet and cool season, including AccuWeather's, which sees winter holding on for a while.

Around the first official day of spring, March 20, “the AccuWeather long-range team is concerned about a surge of cold and wintry weather,” the private weather company’s senior meteorologist, Paul Pastelok, said in a story on the AccuWeather website.

In Virginia, a late-season arctic cold blast could finally bring some snow, which has been hard to come by along the Interstate 95 corridor.

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Elsewhere in the country, the Farmers' Almanac sees warm and dry weather in California and Nevada, thunderstorms and rain for parts of the Southwest, cool and rainy conditions for portions of the Midwest, and even snow in April around the Great Lakes.