Pull those snowblowers out of the storage shed, all you April fools.

Meteorologists are calling for yet another snowstorm as March gives way to April. It doesn’t sound like they’re joking, either. The National Weather Service has even gone so far as to issue a winter weather watch, threatening more than 6 inches of the wrong kind of wet stuff in Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford and four other Maine counties.

“It’s not summer yet, unfortunately,” weather service meteorologist Margaret Curtis said Wednesday evening. From the sound of things, it’s hardly even spring.

“It will be pretty similar to other storms we’ve had this year, just later in the season,” Curtis said. “Wet snow, right around freezing, and big flakes.”

Forecasts said the storm would begin with flurries late Thursday night before roaring into a full-blown squall that will carry through much of Friday, Curtis said.

Some coastal areas may see varying amounts of rain, but Lewiston-Auburn can expect mostly snow, she said, with a touch of rain mixing in midday.

“We’re definitely going to see snow,” she said from the weather service observation station in Gray.

If it’s any consolation, early April snows are not entirely unheard of in these parts. In 2007, 5.6 inches fell on April 6. On April 2, 1922, a ridiculous 11 inches dropped from the sky. The record for snowfall on April 1 is 3.5 inches, in 1889.

Like any good April Fools’ Day prank, the nor’easter looks as though it will be short-lived. Temperatures should rise back into the 40s over the weekend, Curtis said. “By Saturday night, you’ll see mostly clear skies.”