The southeast has been feeling some rapidly changing weather over the past month with spring getting closer and closer. For Environment Canada, actually predicting when spring comes into focus can be fairly difficult before that's less than a week away.
Meteorologist Danielle Desjardins says that she wouldn't expect that until at least the end of April.
"I don't think we're in the clear just yet, you know, for the day-to-day weather, it's really hard to say whether we're going to get another big system track through. We can really tell about a week, week and a half with a little bit more certainty whether we're going to get a big system."
While spring has technically started, Desjardins says that winter-like weather is still in the cards for the southeast.
"Meteorological spring starts at the beginning of March. Of course, we are going to get the official start to spring with the equinox, I believe on March 20th. For all intents and purposes, spring has started, but this variability in the weather and getting more sunlight and more moisture can actually trigger heavier snowfalls in the spring which we typically see over the prairies."
Temperatures will also be swinging with nighttime negative temperatures likely to keep some ice in the area for the weeks ahead.
The likelihood of an extreme downturn like what was felt at the start of February is luckily going down according to Desjardins.
"The odds of us getting back into a really deep freeze really diminish after February. As I mentioned, the sun is getting stronger at this time of year and we're getting a lot more daylight than we were just even a month ago. So the odds of that happening are getting lower and lower as we progress into the spring."
Desjardins lays out that there's still a chance of unseasonable cold through the spring, so while we've probably seen our last extreme cold warning, some chills may be on the way.