I remember screwy weather patterns on & off for many of my 7 decades on this Earth. Last year's Spring Fling was in late Apr and the weather was nice, but the air was cool enough that many wore jackets while attending the fish fry portion of the event. This year it rained, but not the thunderstorms that were forecast. Wearing a rain suit during the day's fishing was a "get wet" proposition .... you don't wear it & you get wet from the rain -- you do wear it and you get wet from sweating from the heat.

Personally, I'm not in the "climate change" camp (politically) ... but, the climate is not a steady event and never has been. By that I mean we don't see temps rise/fall on a steady seasonal basis. We don't have steady temps of 40's in Feb, 50's in Mar, 60's-70's in Apri/May, 80's in June, 90's in July/Aug, etc. I've seen 70's & 80's in Nov/Dec, and I've seen it snow on Easter. Back in 2007 we had an early spell of hot weather, then cold weather, then quickly back to hot weather from late March to mid April ... all documented in my notes from my (former) annual Spring trip to Watts Bar Lake in E. Tenn. We caught 52 very nice keeper Crappie over that weekend, including the 2.75lb "Big Momma" that's pictured in my avatar. We haven't had quite the same success there since 2010 ... but, that has more to do with the TVA changing the timing of the rise/fall of the lake's water levels, than the weather changes. IMHO