Alarmist Andrew Freedman on this spring's weather

Freedman: Explaining an Extreme Spring - Capital Weather Gang

This spring's weather sounds like it was crafted from a pitch meeting between a hapless Hollywood screenwriter and a studio executive. The pitch? "It's a movie in which flooding inundates downtown middle America, tornadoes strike boy scouts, strong winds lash the nation's capital, and record heat wave has New Yorkers sweltering in early June. And no one really knows why... or do they?"

Any minute now I'm expecting Dennis Quaid to emerge from an office in Washington and walk to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to rescue his son who is trapped in a library surrounded by rising floodwaters.

I wonder why he doesn't mention that this spring was generally late and cold compared to other recent springs?

I also wonder if the weather this spring was actually very "extreme" compared to the Earth's other 4.5 billion-or-so springs to date?