Pedestrians brave wind and rain as storms pass through the Midwest on the first day of spring Wednesday, March 21, 2007, in Chicago.
The first full day of spring wasn't too seasonal as ice formed on lines attached to a fishing vessel in Portland Harbor, Maine, Wednesday, March 21, 2007.
A resident clears the snow from the entrance to his house in Espinal during a snow storm that has covered northern Spain on the first day of spring Wednesday, March 21, 2007.
Jack Bucher, 2, flies a kite with the help of his mother Lisa Johnson, at Haines Point in Washington, Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Chilly, blustery weather welcomed visitors on the official first day of spring.
A man walks through a field of daffodils on the first day of spring in the town of Lisse in the heart of the bulb growing district of the Netherlands, Wednesday, March 21, 2007.
It's official. A man checks his watch as he waits for the Spring Equinox on the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico, Tuesday, March 20, 2007. At seven minutes after closing hour of one of Mexico's most important sites, people raised their hands to the sky to receive energy from the sun during the equinox.
Flowers that have not yet bloomed push through the melting snow in New York's East River Park on March 20, 2007. Spring begins at 8:07 p.m. EDT, at the moment of the vernal equinox when the sun passes north over the celestial equator.
Daffodils bloom on March 20, 2007, in Manchester, England. Spring traditionally begins on the day of the vernal equinox, which usually occurs on the night of March 20 or 21; However, the U.K. Meteorological Office has decreed that spring starts on March 1, raising questions among members of parliament.
A Larchmont, N.Y., town worker piles snow from last week's snowstorm high to thaw in the sun before the start of spring on March 20, 2007. The first day of spring, also known as the vernal equinox, officially begins at 8:07 p.m. The word "equinox" comes from a Latin word meaning "equal night." Vernal means "of spring." Despite lots of snow, this winter was the warmest on record worldwide, the government said.
Gregory Tetaud of France dives in vain to catch a softball while playing in New York's East River Park near the melting snow on March 20, 2007. Spring begins at 8:07 p.m. EST, at the moment of the vernal equinox when the sun passes north over the celestial equator. The vernal equinox occurs when the length of daylight and nighttime are equal.
Iraqi Kurds carry torches over a mountain during a Norooz festival, when people gather outside cities to welcome spring, outside the town of Aqrah, 250 miles north of Baghdad, on March 20, 2007.
After springlike conditions last week and a relatively mild winter across the Alpine region, Scottish highland cattle celebrate the first day of spring in a snowy meadow in Lofer, in the Austrian province of Salzburg, on March 20, 2007. About 1.6 feet of fresh snow was recorded in Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, causing authorities to raise avalanche risk levels.
A man with a red umbrella walks in the snow with the fairy tale Neuschwanstein Castle in the background near Fussen, Germany, on March 20, 2007. Following a spell of warm weather, spring arrived with temperatures that dropped suddenly.