In pictures: The East gets a taste of spring
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Image caption, The four-legged friends of our BBC Weather Watcher have been out and about enjoying the sunshine, including this dog enjoying a visit to a Suffolk beach
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Flowers are bursting into colour as the East of England welcomes the first day of astronomical spring - or the vernal equinox.
With warmer air on its way, BBC Weather meteorologists expect temperatures to reach the mid-to-high teens, with parts of the East - including Cambridge, Bedford and Northampton - hitting 18C (64F).
This week, temperatures will be up to seven degrees above the March average, however, the hottest-ever March temperature was 25.6C, recorded in Mepal, Cambridgeshire in 1968.
According to BBC Weather, the warmest Spring Equinox on record was 21.5C at Cambridge Botanic Gardens on 20 March 1972.
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