It is rounding around to the vernal equinox. Here in Yarmouth the Equinox or "equal night" is today March 16th, 2014.
Look it up for your location.
http://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-spring-vernal-equinox
Spring is just a notion here-- a tease. The old Farmers Almanac says that on May 2nd we will finally have dropped the probability of a frost to 50%.
Tonight it will be 5 degrees and there is snow coming to the mid-Atlantic.
Flowers on snow. Enjoy the light and shelter your tender blooms of all types -- whether new ideas or the buds of flowers.
http://www.cleveland.com/insideout/index.ssf/2011/03/protecting_spring_blooms_from.html