We're already having August in the South, after the weirdest Spring ever - warm in late Feb and into March, then the tornadoes in late April. We had a few days of spring weather here and there but it's record-setting heat. The flowers and shrubs and such have all been blooming in fast forward mode - the crepe myrtles have already bloomed, I think the hydrangeas were the only flowering shrub that didn't bloomed early. Today and yesterday we had rain, our area catching the edge of the thunderstorms so we had rain but the storms weren't as close.