Not to sound like a bad comedian, but is it me or has anybody else noticed just how cold and wet it's been?

I understand March is supposed to be this way, you know — in like a lion out like a lamb. Well, it's getting close to the end of the month, and I haven't seen one sheep yet.

Of course, as poor as the weather has been, it can turn around in a heartbeat. We can only hope that will be soon.

Knowing Easter came early and the high school winter sports season wrapped up earlier than usual, spring sports should be off and running.

But they're not.

Maybe the early schedule was a way to sneak in a few baseball or softball games so things could be spread out next month.

There's nothing worse than cramming three or four games into a week as the postseason begins to loom. The same goes for lacrosse and tennis.

Stranger things have happened in March. Warm stretches. Dry periods where there's no rain and no snow. But not this year.

The season should be in Week 2 already, but the cruel fates, along with Mother Nature, Punxsutawney Phil and even the Easter Bunny, are laughing away.

There's nothing worse than spending the first day of spring worrying about an impending snowstorm set to hit over the weekend and possibly disrupt almost all of the following week's activities.

The snow that came to most of Butler County last Friday night into Saturday morning had melted by Saturday afternoon, which could have saved a possible early-season nightmare.

If you look on the Events calendar in this section, you'll see what was scheduled to be the first big day of varsity spring sports.

Last week and even yesterday, there was a tennis match or two, a lacrosse game to be had or baseball and softball games here and there, but now the time has come.

Today, there are six baseball games, four softball games, two track and field meets, two tennis and three boys volleyball matches scheduled.

And, that's assuming there aren't any makeup games already.

I recall last season it not warming up until early May. I think I finally thawed out around the time of the Baldwin Track and Field Invitational.

Hopefully, we won't have to wait it out that long. It should be mild this week, but will it be dry? The spring season is the shortest of all, unless you advance to the state tournaments.

Two months from this weekend, the state track finals in Shippensburg, as well as the boys tennis finals, will be done. Baseball and softball playoffs will be in full swing.

There's not a large cushion for bad weather, but spring doesn't have much choice. Playing any earlier than this year won't matter. Any later and you'll have to trim the season, which I've always advocated in each sport

Poor Seneca Valley. The Raiders won the state title in baseball last year, about two weeks after graduation.

But that's June, which isn't doing anything for us right now. Instead, it's March. The weather always makes this the wildest time of the year.

And also the tamest.