Photo by John J. Young.

As the Winter That Won’t End (hopefully) reaches its final chapter, many are wondering if the tell-tale sign of spring in D.C.—the blooming of the cherry blossoms—will commence as predicted.

While the National Park Service isn’t wavering in its prediction that peak bloom will occur between April 8 and 12—with April 10 being the centered peak bloom date—others are predicting that it will come later. The Capital Weather Gang’s Jason Samenow breaks it down, saying that “given the recent unseasonable chill…we are pushing back our forecast for the cherry blossom’s peak bloom several days from around April 9, to April 13.”

But even as the temperatures are warming up, the weather isn’t exactly cooperating for all of the many National Cherry Blossom Festival activities planned during the three-and-a-half-week festival. The Blossom Kite Festival, which was originally scheduled for tomorrow, March 29, has been pushed back to Sunday, as the forecast is calling for rain all day.

Sunday’s festival, a variety of competitions and demonstrations of all things kite flying-related will kick off at 10:30 a.m. on the Washington Monument grounds, between Constitution Avenue and 17th Street NW, and extend until 4:30 p.m. If the weather doesn’t cooperate—right now the National Weather Service says there’s a 60 percent chance of rain showers before 1 p.m.—it could be pushed back again.

You know what they say about March: In like a lion out like a wet lion.