At Saturday's opening of Vancouver's fourth annual cherry blossom festival the celebration was in full bloom, but the blossoms were not.
In fact, only one out of Vancouver's 36,000 cherry trees is actually starting to blossom.
Organizers blame the late start on cold weather.
"They are starting to show some colour, the buds, which is very encouraging and some are starting to show blossoms, but what's happened with the cold is the cherries are at least two to three weeks late," says Linda Poole.
Elsewhere in Vancouver, things aren't a lot better.
English Bay beach is noticeably quiet for a spring Saturday afternoon as only the die-hards ventured into the rain. And no one was particularly optimistic about things getting much better.
"It'll be like last year, we'll get a beautiful April and then we'll get a stinking June," says one visitor. "June will be freezing."
So when will the weather catch up with the calendar? Environment Canada says unfortunately we're just going to have to wait a little longer, though how long is still anyone's guess.
"Well, we certainly have seen a delay in the warm weather," says meteorologist Lisa Collwells.
Although in the meantime, CTV did find at least a few people who think the Lower Mainland's spring weather is actually pretty good.
"We're from Edmonton so it's still snowing there," one Albertan told CTV News. "Yeah this is a nice change, so this rain is awesome. "We're okay with it."
As for the rest of us, the best advice is to stay patient. Spring and its usual signs will arrive eventually.
With a report by CTV British Columbia's Stephen Smart
