Maritimes should see warm spring after warm winter [Video]

Tuesday marks the official start of spring in the Maritimes, but if you didn’t know any better, you would think winter has been over for a while.

There hasn’t been any significant snow seen in Saint John, N.B., for weeks. Lily Lake at Rockwood Park is one of the best outdoor skating spots in the area, but this season lacing up the skates wasn’t an option more often then it was.

“To me it was almost a lost season,” says David Philips, senior climatologist with Environment and Climate Change, on the winter. “I mean, we’re known for our winters. We are the second coldest country in the world, the snowiest country in the world, and the snow, ice and cold is who we are.”

Phillips says this past winter was the warmest ever recorded on Prince Edward Island, the second warmest in New Brunswick, and the third warmest on record …