“All the flowers are coming out and it’s beautiful,” Maitland mum Danielle Griffiths said.

Odds are it will be a classic spring too, albeit perhaps a whisker warmer than usual.

The climate models support that with a prediction of a 60 per cent chance of temperatures being above the historical average.

“It is tending toward a warmer than average spring,” Bureau of Meteorology climatologist Acacia Pepler said.

“The outlook is very much average for the Hunter Valley and Maitland.” 

The warmth will be a welcome change after what has seemed like a prolonged and cold winter.

“Maybe it’s felt colder because of the cold snap in the middle that brought snow to some low slopes and even southern Queensland, which is pretty unusual,” Ms Pepler said.

“But really, Maitland has experienced a fairly average winter.”

July 12 marked the coldest day with a maximum of just 12.7 degrees.

June, July and August averaged 18.6, 17.7 and 20.2 degrees respectively.

The long-term average between 1858 and 1968 at East Maitland for June, July and August is 17.1, 16.6 and 18.6 respectively.

Rainfall wise, Maitland can also expect an average spring.

“It’s even odds for neither a wetter or drier spring than average,” Ms Pepler said.