What a difference a year makes.

Residents awoke today — the first full day of spring — to face scraping snow from their windshields, and they may have been longing to go back to 2012.

That was when the thermometer crested at 77 degrees on March 20 and 75 on March 21, both records.

On Wednesday, the high was just 39.

However, the weather picture is a lot more normal when looking at monthly averages, according to figures from the National Weather Service.

The average temperature for January was 28.7 compared to the historical average of 26.7.

The average temperature for February was 26.3 degrees compared to the historical average of 29.

And the average temperature so far for March is 33.4 degrees, compared to the historical average of 36.8.

Snowfall totalsThe snowfall this winter season from December through March is on par with past seasons, with a total this season of 36.3 inches. The average is 35.7.This winter, 10.3 inches of snow fell in December, 7.9 inches in January, 8.1 inches in February and 10 inches so far this month.Snow fell on 40 days.The total this winter is 15 inches higher than in the winter of 2011-12.Temperatures are not predicted to rise this week.“At this point, the temperatures for this year have been slightly cooler and we have seen slightly more snow,” said Lee Hendricks, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh.