It appears that way here. For the last couple of years we have had very rainy cool ‘spring’ which really seemed like an extension of winter but with early blooms because of a mild period early in the season. Then it got hot. So hot many of my tomatoes are not pollinating and setting fruit like they should be by now. The plants look healthy as they are on drip irrigation.

Oh other things are blooming like the iris and daylilies and other perennials but I have a feeling the vegetable garden isn’t going to be so great this year.

We tend to have much more unsettled weather than normal these last few springs. We used to get several days of rain followed by several days of dry. Now it is just a little rain several times a day or week and no real dry stretches. Last summer really never turned dry so that the lawn burned out or anything like that. We'll see come this August.

Our last two springs (which is as far back as I can remember or at least as far back as I started to notice) have been cold, wet and windy late into the season and have even brought snow in May. It's meant that what is already a short growing season here in the mountains has become even shorter.

The last two summers, records have been set for consecutive days over 100 degrees. When it gets that hot for so many days in a row, many of the plants shut down until cooler weather arrives. Flowers stop blooming and veggies stop producing.

We've also had longer and more severe fire seasons that bring thick choking smoke. The smoke also affects the plants by blocking out the sun and dropping ash and particulate matter on the foliage and blooms.

While I'm not a talented gardener, I have noticed it with my potted plants. I have heard many gardeners talking about the lower yields from their gardens and the lackluster performance of their flower beds.

This year have not followed the changes that have taken place for perhaps the last 15 years. Our warm weather in the past years had advanced/retreated???? earlier and earlier along with our fall weather by about six weeks. We have been cooler than normal for April and May. NWS posted this morning that they project cooler than normal for June but more precipitation. Our normal weather in the spring is cool one day then in the 90s the next. So far have only had one 90 day. We will see if their projection is correct.

The new normal is very cool temperatures Labor Day week or the week after then a warm up with a few really hot days. Last year we reached 99 several days at the end of September rather than earlier in the month. A few of the past years we have had frost at the end of Sept/start of October where in the past it was later in October. We also had much more snow and rain during the winter but only a few small icing events which unlike most years were in the middle of the cold months not at the beginning and end.

All that said there really is no "normal" only averages.

I'm in the northeast, where we used to sympathize with those who lived in areas where extreme weather occurs. We'd say, "Well, at least we don't have hurricanes or tornadoes." In this rural area we'd lose power fairly often, but could count on getting it back on within three hours max. But that was then.

The past several years we've had numerous occasions where we ran the generator days on end. I bought two new ones this year. Last year a small tornado sheared trees in a circular pattern through the woods around my son's house, and another tore up our county's biggest and most beautiful old cemetery 10 miles away. This past week two tornado warnings accompanied severe thunderstorms, and serious damage was done about 25 miles away.

The other thing is rain. Last year gave us a very late cool wet spring and a short wet summer. The same thing appears to be happening this year. I hope the vegetable garden fares better than it did last year.

50 years ago, we had weather like this. Cyclical. More rain, more snow, shorter growing season. It may hit -5f, but years ago we had two weeks of -20f in December. The Summers in the city need AC, it's too warm...we never used to hit 95-100f, now that's normal.

We just cleaned up more downed tree branches from the late Winter storm. These trees aren't used to THIS climate. This house was built in 1980.

Rain this May set a new record -- beating *last* year's 'Wettest May'. Records in the Chicago area go back to the late 1800's. The 'Polar Vortex' that sank down here from Canada this winter killed many well established old shrubs. 'Spring" is morphing into "Summer" faster than I remember in my 78 years here.

I see weathermen at a loss to predict because old patterns don't apply. Yes, our local climate is now warmer and wetter in summer. The whole earth is warmer, including the vast oceans.

I've lived her now for 35 years. There have been severe cold winters, and mild ones. There have been times of flooding and severe draught. Sometimes spring comes early; a few times it is late. It's all cyclical.

I am fortunate to have an in-ground watering system that can be controlled using my computer (Hunter's Hydrawise). I can even change the time, frequency while on vacation 1000 miles away. I love it!

May was a cool month for me. There were only 3 days that I turned the furnace off. For the past 3 days, the weather has become nice, but with occasional showers, however, June is here and the grass is growing at at terrific pace. Dame rockets have burst in bloom. Not much in the way of earky flowers. This weekend I will be planting flowers in the oval in my front lawn.

A saying in my area if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes. We are use to changing weather. I have already wore shorts in the morning, jeans and sweat shirt in the afternoon and winter coat, hat, scarf and gloves in the evening.

In central Ohio we're experiencing generous rainfall, six inches above average and the forecast is a wet June & July. The lawns are flourishing and flower gardens are producing abundant flowers. I'm considering giving in to the pleas of grandchildren who want to plant a vegetable garden.

What Michael says ^, but will add that with the added rain and fluctuations between unseasonably cool and unseasonably hot, I am having more and various fungal disease.

The first 15 years I lived here I rarely had to turn on the A/C in summer -- now every year I am having to use it more and more; the summers are getting both hotter and more humid.

I haven't noticed any significant changes here, but then I can barely tell the difference from summer to winter, as we have very little temperature fluctuation - on average no more than 12-15°F. We have a rainy season and a dry season, and that's about it. We never have frost, and so our apple tree never loses its leaves in the winter, but it does lose them in the spring and the rain knocks them off the tree. Some winters it will get down to 40° and some winters it won't get below 45°, but the warm months (Sept & Oct) do seem to be getting a tiny bit warmer. This year, Spring was a bit cooler than usual, with more rain. Right now we are about to enter "June Gloom" and we got light misty rain today, which is very unusual for June.

This year, summer is late in Wisconsin. After each rain system passes through, it is followed by a cool (cold) wave. We are still getting arctic vortexes and that has slowed blooming, although many trees are almost in full leaf. The black walnuts are late again, but that is a normal response for that species. Black walnuts wait for a longer period of warm weather to begin leafing and that has served them well in our climate. It protects new leaflets from getting nipped by a late frost. Our walnuts have begun to leaf.

A rain system passed through a couple of days ago followed by night time temperature around 45 F. Maybe this is our "blackberry winter". If so, summer is scheduled to arrive in a couple of days.

I'm not sure what normal is anymore. Last year was a very dry spring and summer and farmer's crops did poorly. This year we (KC area) are 10"+ over normal rainfall with widespread flooding in the plains and farmers haven't been able to get a lot of their crops planted.

I've been able to garden pretty much as normal each year with minor adjustments in timing and watering schedule. Last year I racked up some impressive water bills but so far this year I've barely had to water at all. Raised beds really help to mitigate excessive rainfall. Pest pressure has also seemed to fluctuate greatly from year to year. I didn't see a cabbage butterfly this spring until all of the main broccoli heads had already been harvested. Japanese beetles seem to be emerging earlier in the summer the last 2 years as well. Milky spore applied in fall 2017 greatly decreased their numbers in my garden last year and I'm hoping that continues.